Adobe is expanding its Creative Cloud apps and Firefly AI platform with new capabilities that aim to make design and editing projects faster and less complicated. Some of the announcements at Adobe’s Max event today include features to automatically remove objects, blemishes, and other unwanted distractions in Premiere, Photoshop, and Lightroom, along with new generative AI tools and collaborative experiences in Adobe apps and the Firefly suite.
In Premiere, Adobe is introducing a new generative removal tool in beta that lets you erase unwanted objects and distractions like boom microphones and background clutter right in the video editing timeline. Users can mask and track an object, click Delete, and then Premiere “fills the area with realistic details” using generative AI, according to Adobe, while the rest of the footage surrounding the deleted area remains intact. We saw a similar capability called Project Frame Forward demonstrated at last year’s Sneaks showcase, which is what Adobe calls the experimental features it’s developing.
Premiere is also getting new sound editing tools that help quickly clean up messy recordings and separate multiple audio sources, including dialogue, music, ambience, and sound effects, into individual tracks and elements. The Generative Media tool that Adobe introduced earlier this year is now generally available, along with the new Color Mode color editing experience that Adobe launched in beta in April.
Photoshop now has an updated Delete tool, which better detects and reconstructs surrounding elements associated with the objects you’re erasing, such as reflections, shadows, and footprints. New features in Photoshop include Quick Compare, which gives you a before and after canvas split-screen slider to review changes and edits without jumping between layers, and Relight, which adds new light sources that you can place around the canvas to dynamically adjust the lighting of your images, with support for customizing hue and brightness.
Lightroom’s blemish removal tool for mobile now comes to the desktop version, letting you touch up skin in photos with a single tap. Open Eyes is also coming to Lightroom in public beta, which fixes blinking hiccups by replacing closed eyes with “natural-looking” open eyes results by matching a reference photo of the subject from your image library.
Adobe’s Firefly AI creative suite is getting new tools for video and image editing, and Quick Actions (out-of-the-box workflows that specialize in automating specific tasks, like creating video thumbnails and product ads) are now generally available. Some new beta experiences are also launching in Firefly, including Firefly Design’s combined uplifting space for illustration, image editing, animation, 3D, and printing. There’s also the Firefly Graph, which “helps creators create and iterate custom, repeatable workflows,” according to Adobe, and looks a lot like the Weave platform that Figma introduced last year. And in the private beta, Adobe introduced a Firefly Builder tool designed for prototyping websites and apps, which also shares some similarities with Figma Make.
We’ve mentioned the most interesting Adobe Max announcements here, but they’re just a fraction of the updates that will be shown at the event. You can find the full list of all the new design and AI features announced today on the Adobe blog.
