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Midjourney still defines aesthetic AI imagery for many designers — painterly styles, cinematic lighting, and a community-driven prompt culture on Discord. v6 improved hands and typography, though commercial workflows often pair it with Photoshop cleanup.
Firefly focuses on commercially safer generative assets — integrated into Photoshop, Illustrator, and Express with Content Credentials. Creative teams already on Creative Cloud adopt it to avoid legal gray areas of random checkpoint models.
Stability AI backs open image models like Stable Diffusion — developers self-host for control, brands use DreamStudio for hosted generation. It appeals when you need custom fine-tunes or on-prem generation instead of closed APIs only.