Adobe brings AI-powered editing & new collaboration tools to creative cloud

Adobe has announced a fresh rollout of features across its Creative Cloud suite, introducing updates to Lightroom, Photoshop, Illustrator, and Adobe Firefly. The updates focus on improving creative workflows with AI-powered tools aimed at speeding up editing processes and enhancing output quality.

For Lightroom users, new tools are being made available across mobile, web, and desktop. Among them is Quick Actions, Scene Enhance, designed to simplify landscape photo editing by detecting and isolating outdoor elements such as sky, water, and ground. Another key feature, Remove Distractions, enables one-click removal of window reflections and unwanted people from photos using AI. Adobe notes that "Window reflection removal that's pure magic" is now supported in non-Raw formats across Lightroom platforms.

Generative Remove, which now includes people detection, allows users to clean up photos more efficiently. According to Adobe, “Generative Remove can also now detect people who are not the focus of your photo for removal in a single click.” A preview of features expected soon in Lightroom and Lightroom Classic includes AI-assisted sorting tools like eyes-open and subject-focus detection.

Photoshop introduces Dynamic Text, a feature that automatically reflows and resizes type to fit any bounding box while offering control over spacing. Additionally, cloud-powered enhancements improve the performance of the Select Subject and Remove Background tools, particularly when dealing with complex image details.

Illustrator receives notable performance enhancements. Generative Expand, powered by Adobe Firefly’s Vector Model, allows users to enlarge vector graphics while preserving design style and detail. The generated content remains fully editable. Adobe says users can now experience up to 5x faster performance in ten popular Illustrator effects, including Drop Shadow, Inner Glow, and Offset Path.

The Enhanced Pencil Tool and Live Transform features bring smoother real-time drawing and object manipulation on the artboard, aimed at improving usability and precision.

Adobe Firefly now includes Firefly Boards, a new collaborative space for concept development and brainstorming. The company describes it as “a new space to ideate, mood-board, storyboard, and generate text, images, and now video, all within Adobe Firefly.” The Boards feature supports content generation through multiple models and now includes integrations with Ideogram, Luma AI, Pika, and Runway, in addition to previously announced partners like Google and OpenAI.

Adobe clarifies that users can switch between models directly on the canvas and that each model is clearly labeled. “You can freely toggle between models right on the canvas — always with clear labels, so you know exactly which model is powering each idea — all without needing additional accounts or subscriptions to these partner models.”

The new features are available to users with Creative Cloud Pro subscriptions.