Adobe Rolls Out Major Creative Cloud Updates Across Five Apps

Adobe has introduced updates to five Creative Cloud applications in a single release. Lightroom’s Assisted Culling has now moved into general availability, After Effects replaces its traditional Roto Brush with an AI-driven Object Matte system, and Photoshop receives a new nondestructive reflection removal feature.

The company has rolled out a broad set of Creative Cloud enhancements across Lightroom, Premiere, After Effects, Photoshop, and Illustrator, bringing new AI-powered capabilities that support workflows ranging from image selection and organization to advanced rotoscoping.

Premiere

Global Audio Mute enables users to silence all audio throughout the application with a single click. Marker Search allows editors to locate any marker by name or color across all currently open projects. Three newly introduced effects — Channel Blur, Gradient, and Noise FX — support compositing and animated texture creation directly within the timeline. New 3D Spinback and Slide transitions arrive with professional-grade easing controls. Single Word Captioning makes it possible to edit captions at the individual word level without altering the surrounding caption segment.

The Stock Panel Checkout feature allows users to preview and license Adobe Stock content without leaving Premiere. When multiple assets are imported into a project through Firefly Boards, a sequence is generated automatically. Object Mask now delivers smoother edge detection and can be regenerated if media files go offline and are later relinked. The Sequence Index Panel centralizes controls for long-form editing, while A/V Display Mode presents video and audio waveforms together within the Source Monitor.

After Effects

Object Matte replaces the brush-based Roto Brush workflow with four AI-powered tools: Object Selection, Quick Selection, Selection Brush, and Refine Edge. The application’s 3D toolkit now includes Displacement Maps for enhanced surface depth, Depth of Field support across models, meshes, text, and shape layers, as well as scripting APIs for Parametric Meshes. SVG files can now be imported directly as editable shape layers while retaining gradients, strokes, and transparency settings. A new copy-and-paste workflow from Illustrator also transfers vector assets without requiring conversion.

Photoshop

Reflection Removal automatically identifies and eliminates reflections in glass images, placing the removed reflections on a separate layer for nondestructive opacity adjustments. Meanwhile, the Remove Tool now operates using a generative AI model directly on-device, allowing it to function both online and offline.

Lightroom

Assisted Culling has officially exited its early access phase and is now broadly available. The upgraded feature introduces Face View, which isolates individuals within an image and evaluates factors such as eye sharpness and whether eyes are open. Stacking automatically organizes similar images into groups and highlights the strongest shot among them. Additional controls include customizable filters, precision adjustment dials, and selection override options.

Photo to Video transforms still photographs into animated video clips using AI-generated motion powered by Firefly and Google Veo. Users can either rely on automatically generated prompts based on the image content or create their own prompts.

AI Sharpen now integrates Topaz Labs’ Noise-Aware Sharpen model directly into Lightroom, removing the need for exporting files during the sharpening process. Support for Sony a7R VI RAW files has also been added across Lightroom, Lightroom Classic, and Adobe Camera Raw.

Illustrator

Concept to Vector, which was first introduced in Illustrator 30.5, converts sketches or low-resolution images into editable vector concepts. The feature can also generate multiple stylistic variations from a single source image.