Concise, sourced updates on what changed in AI for Brand & Graphic.
24 articles
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Announced at Adobe MAX, Firefly Design is a new beta workspace inside Firefly that brings illustration, image editing, animation, 3D, and print onto one canvas to create, review, and deliver. Adobe has shared the pitch, not the details, so treat it as something to explore rather than build a job on.
Brand & Graphic
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The update adds animated GIFs in ChatGPT and the API, brings photo markup to the API, and adds SVG output for developers. The SVG side is the more interesting one for designers, but it's API-only for now and comes with real limits.
Brand & Graphic, Motion & Video
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The unified Affinity app is now on iPad with Pixel, Vector, Layout and a new Sketch Studio, it opens the same .af files as desktop, and only the Canva AI features cost anything.
Brand & Graphic, Illustration, Photo & Imaging
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Paste a link and Krea builds a kit with your logo, fonts, selling points, and products, then generates ads from it. The useful part is the step in between, where you get to fix what it found before anything gets made.
Brand & Graphic
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A week after Craft, Canva has a second in-house model, and this one works on designs you already have. It's in Canva AI for Pro subscribers now, and the speed and cost numbers are Canva's own comparison against its old agent.
Brand & Graphic
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Describe an app in plain language and Runway builds and hosts it, wired to your models and Brand Kit. It's on every paid plan, but check the minimum credit balance and the conflicting word on public links first.
Motion & Video, Brand & Graphic
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Canva's first in-house image model sketches a written plan of the composition and any text before rendering, which is meant to make its images easier to split into editable layers with Magic Layers.
Brand & Graphic, Photo & Imaging
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Ideogram's first vector model skips the pixels entirely. It generates SVG artwork from a text prompt, or converts an existing image, and the pitch is shapes and colors you can actually edit afterward.
Brand & Graphic, Illustration
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Open 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
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Krea'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
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Anthropic 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
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Black 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
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Luma'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
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Muse 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
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Ideogram'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
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Paste 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
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The 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
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A 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
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Canva 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
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CorelDRAW'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
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A 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
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A 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
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AI 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
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Agent 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