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 from Adobe’s Max event today include features for automatically removing objects, blemishes, and other unwanted distractions in Premiere, Photoshop, and Lightroom, alongside new generative AI tools and collaborative experiences across Adobe’s apps and Firefly suite.
In Premiere, Adobe is introducing a new Generative Remove tool in beta that lets you erase unwanted objects and distractions like boom mics and background clutter directly on the video editing timeline. Users can mask and track an object, click Remove, and then Premiere “fills the area with realistic detail” using generative AI, according to Adobe, while the rest of the footage surrounding the erased area remains untouched. We saw a similar capability called Project Frame Forward demonstrated in 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 to quickly clean up messy recordings and separate various audio sources — including dialogue, music, ambience, and sound effects — into individual tracks and elements. The Generative Media tool Adobe introduced earlier this year is now generally available, alongside the new Color Mode color editing experience that Adobe launched in beta in April.
Photoshop now has an updated Remove Tool, which is better at detecting and reconstructing surrounding elements associated with the objects it’s erasing, such as reflections, shadows, and footprints. Features that are new to 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 position around the canvas to dynamically adjust the lighting of images, with support for customizing hue and brightness.
The blemish removal tool in Lightroom on mobile is now coming to the desktop version, allowing you to retouch skin in photographs with a single tap. Open Eyes is also coming to Lightroom in public beta, which fixes blinking mishaps by replacing closed eyes with “natural-looking” open eyed 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 — ready-to-use workflows that specialize in automating specific tasks, such as making video thumbnails and product ads — are now generally available. Some new beta experiences are also launching in Firefly, including the Firefly Design combined edifying space for illustration, image editing, animation, 3D, and print. There’s also Firefly Graph, which “helps creators build and iterate on custom, repeatable workflows,” according to Adobe, and looks rather like the Weave platform that Figma introduced last year. And in private beta, Adobe introduced a Firefly Builder tool that’s designed around prototyping websites and apps — which also shares some similarities with Figma Make.
We’ve called out the most interesting announcements from Adobe Max here, but it’s just a fraction of the updates being showcased at the event. You can find the full list of all the new AI and design features announced today on Adobe’s blog.
