Adobe Previews Mind Bending AI Tools For Creatives

Each year, the Adobe MAX Sneaks event provides an exciting preview of the most innovative ideas emerging from Adobe's research and engineering teams. This session is where experimental technology meets creative curiosity, often revealing concepts that later find their way into the Adobe products used by millions. Hosted this year by the energetic and witty actress Jessica Williams, the event showcased how AI is expanding the possibilities of creative expression, making workflows faster, more intuitive, and more enjoyable.

Here’s a look at the groundbreaking projects that were unveiled.

The Future of Image Editing

Project Surface Swap This tool uses AI-powered texture recognition to select and replace materials in a photo seamlessly. It preserves the original lighting and perspective, making it ideal for visualizing changes to a sofa's upholstery or a type of wood flooring before making real-world decisions.

Project Light Touch Traditionally, a photo's lighting is set in stone once captured. Project Light Touch changes that with a generative AI tool that lets you reshape light sources after the shot. You can transform a day scene into night, add dramatic effects, or adjust the mood without needing a reshoot.

Project Turn Style This project moves beyond flat images by allowing you to edit 2D objects as if they were 3D. You can rotate, re-angle, or reposition elements within a photo while maintaining their natural texture, lighting, and detail, offering limitless creative control.

Project Trace Erase Object removal gets a significant upgrade with Project Trace Erase. Powered by diffusion transformer models, it intelligently removes an object along with its shadows, reflections, and environmental distortions, delivering a clean, context-aware edit with minimal manual cleanup.

Project New Depths Step into the world of 3D photography with Project New Depths. It brings intuitive editing to “radiance fields” (3D photos), allowing artists to modify color, shape, and composition in three-dimensional space as easily as adjusting brightness.

Project Scene It This tool combines precision and artistry by giving creators control over both the structure and style of 3D scenes. It allows individual objects to be tagged with reference images, preserving their unique look while they are moved freely in 3D space.

Next-Generation Video and Motion

Project Frame Forward Forget tedious frame-by-frame video editing. Project Frame Forward applies changes across an entire video based on a single annotated frame and a simple text prompt, bringing the precision of photo editing to video production.

Project Motion Map This tool brings static illustrations to life. Project Motion Map uses AI to analyze vector graphics and automatically animate them in an expressive way, eliminating the need for manual keyframes or rigging while reflecting the creator's original intent.

AI-Powered Sound and Storytelling

Project Sound Stager Sound is essential for conveying emotion, and Project Sound Stager helps creators design it effectively. By analyzing a video's visuals and pacing, it automatically generates layered soundscapes. You can even collaborate conversationally with the AI “sound designer” to refine the final mix.

Project Clean Take Editing dialogue just became much smoother. Project Clean Take uses AI to correct mispronunciations, isolate voices, remove noise, and refine delivery in seconds. It’s a powerful asset for podcasters and filmmakers seeking studio-quality sound.

The Sneaks session is all about sharing bold experiments with the creative community for feedback and inspiration. What begins as a concept at Sneaks often becomes a key feature that empowers creators globally, and it will be exciting to see where these ideas go next.