Adobe Announces Major Creative Cloud Updates, Rolling Out Globally This Week
A series of major updates to Adobe’s Creative Cloud suite—including Lightroom, Photoshop, Premiere Pro, After Effects, and Illustrator—are rolling out globally this week. The updates introduce new tools, improved performance, and expanded AI-driven features.
Lightroom
The Denoise tool in Lightroom Classic is now 2-3 times faster and can run in the background.
- Denoise Tool (Mac): The Denoise tool in Lightroom Classic is reported to be 2-3 times faster and can now run in the background, allowing users to continue editing without interruption.
- Standardized Tethering: Lightroom Classic has adopted the PTP open standard for tethering, moving away from manufacturer-specific SDKs. This change is intended to enable faster compatibility with newly launched cameras.
- Assisted Culling: Previously in beta, this feature is now fully available. It includes Face View, which identifies subjects and analyzes eye sharpness and openness, and Stacking, which groups similar images and suggests the best frame. Adobe states the tool cannot evaluate facial expressions.
- Photo to Video: Lightroom (web) now includes a feature that generates motion from still images using Adobe Firefly and Google Veo technology.
- AI Sharpen: Integration of Topaz Labs' sharpening technology allows for detail recovery without exporting to separate software.
- RAW Support: RAW files from the Sony A7R VI are now supported in Lightroom, Lightroom Classic, and Adobe Camera Raw.
Photoshop
Clarity, Dehaze, and Grain are now available as dedicated, non-destructive adjustment layers.
- New Adjustment Layers: Clarity, Dehaze, and Grain are now available as dedicated adjustment layers. Previously available only in Camera Raw, this change allows for non-destructive, stackable, and maskable editing. Users can apply varying amounts of these adjustments to specific areas of an image.
- Reflection Removal: A new tool that detects and reduces reflections from glass, placing the removed reflection on a separate layer for further adjustment.
- Remove Tool: This tool can now access a generative AI model locally on the user’s computer, enabling certain editing tasks without an internet connection.
- AI Output Quality: Generative Fill, Generative Expand, and the Remove tool now offer 2K resolution outputs with reduced artifacts and improved prompt adherence.
- Reference Image Enhancements: The Reference Image feature with objects has been updated to better maintain object identity through geometry-aware adjustments for scale, rotation, and perspective.
- Dynamic Text (Beta): A new feature that allows text to wrap along circular or arched paths with a single click.
Other Applications
Premiere Pro
- Updates include faster AI-powered Object Masking, new visual effects and transitions, improved caption editing, and a Stock Panel for browsing and licensing Adobe Stock assets.
After Effects introduces a redesigned, AI-assisted rotoscoping workflow called Object Matte.
After Effects
- A redesigned AI-assisted rotoscoping workflow called Object Matte has been introduced. The update also includes expanded 3D capabilities and improved vector workflows, such as importing SVG files as editable shape layers.
Illustrator
- The Concept to Vector tool converts sketches into editable vector artwork and generates design variations from a single source image.
Availability
The updates are rolling out globally this week. AI improvements are also being extended to Photoshop on the web.