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0:00 Adobe Firefly and Inesign together unlock a whole new way to design product cataloges. And in this video, I'll show you how. Follow along in this tutorial as I show you how to take a single product image, generate new compositions using the Gemini model in Adobe Firefly and build an interactive catalog layout in Inesign. Let's jump in and get started. Before we get started, I want to show you the reference image we'll be using in Adobe Firefly. Let's assume this is the only product image we have of this shoe. This workflow gives you a fast alternative to traditional product photography, especially if you're in a time crunch. Let's jump over to Adobe Firefly and I'll show you more. The model I'll be using to create variations of my product image is Gemini 2.5 with Nano Banana. For the aspect ratio, I'll choose square one by one. I'll drag and drop the shoe image from Adobe Stock into the reference image area and add my prompt. For this, I'll type change the position view to a side profile. The back sole of the shoe is completely flat to the ground. View is directly from the side. Now I can click generate to see my result. That'll take a few moments to generate a result. And you can see Nano Banana does an amazing job creating another version of the shoe in a different position. Let's generate another. This time I'll say change the position to a side profile of the opposite side of the shoe. Once again I'll click generate and let's take a look at the result. Once again Nano Banana generates another great version of the product from the opposite side of the shoe. Let's add one more to the collection. This time I'll say create a top-down position view of the shoe. And now I can click generate one more time to see my final result. And just like that, I created three more product versions of this running shoe that I can add to an interactive layout in Inesign.
2:05 Now that we have the product images generated, let's jump over to Inesign and add them to an interactive mobile catalog layout. I'm in Inesign now and I've placed all four of those images from Firefly in this catalog layout. Have a look in the layers panel. I have a layer called shoes. And if I expand that, you can see that all four of those images are stacked on one another. I have the original shoe at the top followed by shoe side one, shoe side two, and the top view of the shoe. I'll turn those back on. I also have a layer called buttons. Here I have an icon that's called next button and an icon that's called previous button. Now the idea here is I want to convert all four of those images into a multi-state object. To do that, we'll need the object states panel which I have docked here on the side. To access that, make your way up to window interactive and choose object states. We'll also need the buttons and forms panel. With all four images selected, I'm just going to drag and select all four of those images that are stacked on one another. I'm going to click on this icon in the bottom right hand corner to convert that selection into a multi-state object.
3:22 Now, if I expand the panel, you can see that all four of those images have been converted into states. There's state one, state 2, state 3, and state 4. You can rename the states, but in this example, we'll leave them as is. However, I will rename the object name at the top. I think I'll call this shoe collection. Now that the multistate object has been set up, we can click on buttons and forms and add the actions to both the next and previous icons. I'll start with the next icon first. I'll click it on the page and then convert it to a button. I'll rename the button next btn. That's short for button. And under actions, I'm going to add a go to next state action. The only object we have set up here is shoe collection. So I'll choose that. And I'll do the same for the previous icon. I'll click it. I'll convert the object into a button. And I'm going to rename this previous btn.
4:22 Much like the first example, I'm going to click the actions and instead of go to next state, I'm going to choose go to previous state. The interactive image slide has been set up and I've published it online. Let's see how it looks in a web browser. I've launched the project in a web browser and I can click the next button to make my way through all the angles of the shoes. And I could do the same with the previous button to click through all four angles of the shoes. This also works great for mobile device. You can see I launched the same project in a mobile web browser and I can navigate through the product images with the next and previous buttons.
5:00 Thanks for watching and I hope you can use this workflow the next time you're creating an interactive catalog and in need of multiple product images. If you found it helpful, leave a like and don't forget to hit the subscribe button to get notified when new content is released. For more Adobe Inesign tutorials just like this, check out the playlist right up here. Thanks again and I'll see you in the next video.