27 articles
3 min readOpen a report, benefits guide, or spec sheet in Acrobat and ask for a flyer, social post, or newsletter. You get up to three designs to refine by chat or finish in Adobe Express.
Brand & Graphic
· 3 min read
7 min readFirefly Custom Models can learn your illustration style from 10 to 30 images. Pulling together Adobe's docs and several independent write-ups, here's how to curate, caption, test, and actually use one.
Illustration, Brand & Graphic
· 7 min read
3 min readKrea's new editing model returns most 2K edits in under 8 seconds, takes several reference images per edit, and is pitched at keeping labels, logos, and faces intact while the scene around them changes.
Photo & Imaging, Brand & Graphic
· 3 min read
3 min readAgents connected to Webflow can now read page-level Analyze traffic, Optimize experiment results, and AEO Analytics, and Google Gemini joins Claude and ChatGPT as a way to connect.
Web
· 3 min read
7 min readCinema 4D now ships with its own MCP server, so Claude or ChatGPT can rename, reorganize, and check your scenes for you. Pulling together Maxon's docs and several early write-ups, here's how to set it up and where it actually earns its keep.
3D, Motion & Video
· 7 min read
6 min readTurntable can spin a flat character or object around and hand you dozens of editable views, but it's picky about what you feed it. Pulling together Adobe's docs, hands-on reviews, and early tester reports, here's how to prep art for it and what to do with the results.
Illustration, Brand & Graphic
· 6 min read
4 min readAt Config India, Figma opened code-backed prototypes on the canvas to everyone and introduced Specs, a Markdown document that lives next to your designs and can be handed to a coding agent. Code layers use AI credits, but they're free to create and edit on paid plans until November 4.
UI/UX, Web
· 4 min read
3 min readPrompt a site in Figma Make and it can now set up a database, file storage, user login, and an admin panel your client can edit, all hosted by Figma. The hosting is free while it's in beta, and Figma says pricing will be announced before it takes effect.
Web
· 3 min read
5 min readEnhance Speech can rescue a phone-mic interview in one click, and it can also leave a voice sounding hollow or robotic. Pulling together Adobe's own notes, several guides, and what editors report in Adobe's forums, here's how to use it without overdoing it.
Motion & Video
· 5 min read
3 min readGoogle opened up its newest frontier model on October 13, and Figma Make got it the same day. In the Gemini app it's for paying subscribers only, but in Figma Make it's listed for all plans. Figma warns that credit use for non-default models can vary a lot.
UI/UX, Web
· 3 min read
6 min readAuto Style reads a block of text, works out what's a heading, a list, or body copy, and applies a Style Pack of your own paragraph styles. Set it up carefully and it turns "can we see it in a different font?" into a one-click change.
Brand & Graphic
· 6 min read
3 min readRelight is a new generative layer in the Photoshop beta. You drag lights around the canvas, set their color and softness, and Photoshop replaces the photo's lighting on a separate layer. Each final render costs 30 generative credits.
Photo & Imaging
· 3 min read
6 min readSampler's AI-powered Image to Material can pull a full PBR material out of a single phone photo. Getting one that tiles cleanly and holds up on a render takes a few more steps. Here's the path, pulled together from Adobe's docs and several independent guides.
3D
· 6 min read
6 min readFigJam can group a wall of interview stickies by topic and write a summary of each pile in seconds. Pulling together Figma's docs, a competing approach in Miro, and what researchers have found when they test these tools, here's how to use that speed without letting it make your calls.
UI/UX
· 6 min read
3 min readA new Rerun (Thinking) button on V8.2 jobs has the model look for where it missed your prompt before generating again. The same alpha update adds shared folders, so a team can generate into one place.
Illustration, Photo & Imaging
· 3 min read
5 min readMore clients show up with a logo they made in an image generator and a request to "just clean it up." Drawing on several designers' write-ups and general vector practice, here's how to scope the job, rebuild the mark properly, and have the ownership conversation before you deliver.
Brand & Graphic
· 5 min read
6 min readLightroom doesn't copy an AI mask from one photo to the next. It copies the instructions and redraws the mask on every frame. Pulling together several independent guides and Adobe community threads, here's how to batch subject, sky, and people masks so they actually land where you meant them to.
Photo & Imaging
· 6 min read
6 min readContent-Aware Fill can erase a boom mic, a sign, or a passerby from a shot, but only if you pick the right fill method and feed it the right mask. Pulling together Adobe's docs and several independent tutorials, here's a fuller workflow, including where the guides disagree.
Motion & Video
· 6 min read
6 min readA client sends a flattened JPEG or a file with every word outlined, and nobody knows the typeface. Pulling together Adobe's docs and several independent guides, here's how to get good matches out of Retype, what it no longer does, and how to check a match before you commit to it.
Brand & Graphic
· 6 min read
4 min readAnthropic put Claude Motion into beta for Team and Enterprise plans. It builds short, code-driven animations you can export as MP4 and send on to Adobe and other editors. The same day, Claude Design, Docs, and Slides left beta and came to every plan, Free included.
Motion & Video, Brand & Graphic
· 4 min read
4 min readBlack Forest Labs' new image model takes a layout, not just a prompt: you draw a box for each element, describe it, and the model builds the image around your composition. You can then edit, swap, or move one region and tell it to leave the rest alone.
Photo & Imaging, Brand & Graphic
· 4 min read
5 min readLightroom's Remove tool now packs Generative Remove plus one-click Distraction Removal for people, reflections, and dust. Pulling together Adobe's own guidance and several independent guides, here's how to pick the right mode, brush it properly, and know when to hand off to Photoshop.
Photo & Imaging
· 5 min read
6 min readIllustrator's Mockup feature wraps vector art onto a photo of a real object and keeps it editable. Pulling together Adobe's docs and several independent write-ups, here's how to set it up, which photos it handles well, and where you'll still need to finish by hand.
Brand & Graphic
· 6 min read
4 min readLuma's new Ad Variants resizes and translates a finished static ad into standard placements, and Higgsfield's Ads Studio now builds static ads from your site and remakes video ads with your own product, cast, and script. One week, one tedious job.
Brand & Graphic, Motion & Video
· 4 min read
4 min readAs of October 6, the agent in Figma Design is generally available, with library guidelines written in markdown, file search inside chat, and a catch: it no longer runs for free.
UI/UX
· 4 min read
6 min readHarmonize matches a pasted-in subject's light and color to its new scene in one click. Pulling together Adobe's own tutorial and several hands-on guides, here's how to set it up, where it goes soft, and how to finish the job by hand.
Photo & Imaging
· 6 min read
3 min readMuse for Small Business connects Meta's AI agent to Canva, Figma, Shopify, and a long list of other work tools, which means some of your small-business clients may soon be making on-brand graphics by chatting with it.
Brand & Graphic
· 3 min read
6 min readStyle references, sref codes, moodboards, and personalization all promise a consistent look, and they behave quite differently. Pulling together Midjourney's docs and several practitioners' write-ups, here's how to build a look that holds across a whole campaign.
Photo & Imaging, Brand & Graphic
· 6 min read
3 min readIdeogram's new model is aimed at the stage after generation: changing one part of an image, over and over, without the rest of it slowly drifting, softening, or shifting color.
Photo & Imaging, Brand & Graphic
· 3 min read
6 min readGenerative Extend can save a shot that's a few frames too short, and it can also hand you a brightness bump or a soft, flickery tail. Pulling together Adobe's own notes and several hands-on reviews, here's how to use it where it holds up.
Motion & Video
· 6 min read
4 min readThe deal closed September 23 with promises that Topaz stays standalone. Across Topaz's own forum and other creative communities, the reaction is less outrage than guarded skepticism about pricing, licenses, and credits.
Photo & Imaging, Motion & Video
· 4 min read
6 min readMeshy, Tripo, and similar tools get you a convincing model in minutes, with geometry that's rarely ready for anything. Pulling together Blender's manual and several independent guides, here's a cleanup path and where the advice disagrees.
3D
· 6 min read
6 min readFigma can build custom shader fills and effects from a plain-language prompt, including animated and cursor-reactive ones. Pulling together Figma's docs, independent write-ups, and forum threads, here's how to use them and where they still fall short.
UI/UX, Web
· 6 min read
3 min readWebflow added agentic translation to Localize: a one-time pass you review, or a continuous mode that retranslates every change to your primary content, plus rules for keeping some content out of AI's hands entirely.
Web
· 3 min read
3 min readThree months into its open beta, Figma Motion picked up the features that take it from something to experiment with to something a team can standardize on: reusable styles you publish to a library, audio on the timeline, and Lottie output.
UI/UX, Motion & Video
· 3 min read
6 min readText to Vector Graphic gives you real paths, but often far more of them than you'd draw yourself. Pulling together Adobe's docs and several independent guides, here's a workflow from prompt to a file you'd actually hand off.
Illustration, Brand & Graphic
· 6 min read
6 min readMagic Mask can isolate a moving person or object without rotoscoping, but most frustration comes from over-guiding it and fixing the wrong frame. Pulling together several guides, here's a workflow from first click to a cached matte you can grade against in real time.
Motion & Video, Photo & Imaging
· 6 min read
3 min readCanvas lays out every page of a Shopify store on one zoomable workspace and has Sidekick, Shopify's AI agent, write the theme code as you talk. It's early, and the fine print matters a lot if you build stores for clients.
Web
· 3 min read
5 min readMost people try Generative Recolor once, get a random palette, and move on. Pulling together several tutorials, here's a fuller workflow: prep the art so the AI can actually see your colors, explore broadly, save what works, then snap it back to a real brand palette.
Illustration, Brand & Graphic
· 5 min read
3 min readKling's new video model is now available worldwide on its website, with single-pass clips up to 30 seconds, up to 15 references, and 10 keyframes. The promised 10-bit HDR and 21:9 output still aren't here, and API access is coming later.
Motion & Video
· 3 min read
3 min readLightroom desktop's September 29 update adds an early access Prompt to Edit tool powered by Google's Nano Banana model. It's handy for restoration and big changes, but it produces a new generated image, not an edit you can dial back.
Photo & Imaging
· 3 min read
3 min readA mid-September Firefly update adds automatic subject detection to background removal for video, applying it across an entire clip instead of frame by frame.
Motion & Video
· 3 min read
3 min readPaste a company website or upload a brand guidelines PDF, and Canva's Brand Kit Builder pulls out logos, colors, fonts, and brand voice on its own, rolled out as part of Canva's September 2026 feature drop.
Brand & Graphic, Web
· 3 min read
4 min readDeveloper Vishwas Gopinath's write-up on connecting Claude Code to Figma's MCP server still holds up as a technique, though Figma has since replaced his exact setup steps with a plugin-based flow. Here's why it's worth doing and where Figma's current instructions actually live.
Web, UI/UX
· 4 min read
3 min readIndependent essays published months apart keep landing on the same diagnosis: AI design and coding tools converge on the same look, and the fix is deliberate constraint, not a better prompt.
UI/UX, Web
· 3 min read
4 min readAcross months of threads on Figma's community forum, the same pattern keeps showing up: Figma Make's credit system charges for the corrections its own AI output makes necessary, and people are running out fast.
UI/UX, Web
· 4 min read
4 min readDesigner Roberto Moreno Celta's published breakdown of why most Figma variable setups collapse, and the naming and handoff workflow he uses instead to keep design and code actually in sync.
Web, UI/UX
· 4 min read
3 min readA signed add-on now lets Blender artists generate meshes, rigs, and scene elements from inside the 3D viewport, and get back editable data instead of a locked render. Early coverage is cautiously optimistic, not sold.
3D, Motion & Video
· 3 min read
5 min readMost people who use Firefly inside Photoshop know two moves: fill a resize, erase an object. A look across Adobe's own documentation and independent tutorials turns up a model picker, a free removal path, and a reference-image workflow most people never open.
Photo & Imaging, Brand & Graphic, Web
· 5 min read
3 min readThe Adobe for Claude plugin now handles PDFs and lets you step into a layer-based Express editor yourself, while Photoshop, Lightroom, Express, and Firefly tools arrive in Google Gemini.
Brand & Graphic, UI/UX
· 3 min read
3 min readAdobe's new assistant can reorganize messy projects, write expressions from plain-language descriptions, and handle multi-step chores, but for now it only lives in the After Effects beta.
Motion & Video
· 3 min read
2 min readKrea's AI agent, which plans a job, picks from more than 150 models, and generates or edits images, video, and audio from one prompt, no longer needs an invite.
Photo & Imaging, Motion & Video
· 2 min read
2 min readA quiet Firefly update triples the crop options for GPT Image 2 on the web and in Boards. Small on paper, useful in practice if you generate assets for more than one placement.
Photo & Imaging, Illustration, Brand & Graphic, Web
· 2 min read
3 min readCanva has grouped its four pro acquisitions into one connected suite, and the headline Affinity 3.3 update adds a Blend Tool, InDesign file import, JavaScript scripting, and a paid Layer to 3D feature.
Brand & Graphic, Illustration, Photo & Imaging, Motion & Video
· 3 min read
3 min readA write-up of Nolen Jonker's XDA walkthrough: connect Claude to Affinity, let it do the tedious layer renaming and color swaps, then keep the good ones as scripts. Updated for Affinity 3.3's new Scripting Studio.
Brand & Graphic, Illustration
· 3 min read
3 min readCorelDRAW's September 2026 update generates editable vector artwork from prompts or existing art, speeds up bitmap tracing, and lets CorelDRAW Web use your own fonts and export DWG and DXF.
Brand & Graphic, Illustration
· 3 min read
3 min readClaude, Claude Code, and ChatGPT Codex can now organize media, cut a highlight reel, or batch-render inside Resolve through plain language, using a native MCP server built into Resolve Studio. Studio tier only.
Motion & Video
· 3 min read
2 min readA new 'Figma node' lets you paste a Design frame straight into Weave, so it becomes a live, on-brand source that AI workflows can build on at scale.
Brand & Graphic, UI/UX, Motion & Video
· 2 min read
3 min readFramer's Skills feature lets you save reusable instructions, for a design system, a writing style, or a CMS workflow, that its AI agent follows across tasks instead of you re-explaining your conventions every time.
Web, UI/UX
· 3 min read
3 min readA new alpha edit model lets you open any generated image, describe a change in plain language, attach up to four reference images, and see every edit in a session lined up in one place.
Photo & Imaging, Illustration
· 3 min read
2 min readA new fast tier of Recraft's image model trades reference-image input and aspect-ratio range for generation times of about 1.4 seconds, at $0.007 an image.
Illustration, Photo & Imaging, Brand & Graphic
· 2 min read
2 min readAI agents connected through Runway MCP can now find and reference Brand Kit assets, like logos, colors, and fonts, when generating images and video. Creating or editing a kit still has to happen in the product.
Brand & Graphic, Motion & Video
· 2 min read
3 min readSpline's V2 relaunch adds an in-editor AI agent that can build and edit full 3D scenes from a prompt, plus an MCP server so tools like Claude Code and Cursor can drive the editor directly.
3D, Web
· 3 min read
2 min readAgent Instructions, Webflow's context files for AI agents working on a site, can now be generated from a site you've already built, covering brand voice, design system, assets, and CMS content.
Web, UI/UX, Brand & Graphic
· 2 min read