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Good morning. Adobe just launched Color Mode in Premiere Pro (beta), a brand-new color grading experience built from the ground up for editors (and a direct shot at DaVinci Resolve).
Also: Adobe unveiled Firefly AI Assistant, a conversational creative AI agent that can plan and execute complex, multi-step workflows across your entire Creative Cloud suite (alongside a major wave of new Firefly video tools).
VIDEO EDITING
🎨 Adobe Premiere Pro introduces "Color Mode"
Adobe just launched Color Mode in Premiere Pro (beta), a first-of-its-kind color grading system built from the ground up for editors (not colorists).
Until now, serious color work meant either handing off to a specialist or learning a dedicated app like DaVinci Resolve. Color Mode changes that.
Switch into Color Mode, and you get pro-grade color tools that work right next to your edit, every grade visible and organized the way editors actually think.
Available in public beta today for all Premiere Pro subscribers, with general availability later in 2026.
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
One brand built 30+ landing pages through Viktor without a single developer.
Each page mapped to a specific ad group. All deployed within hours. Viktor wrote the code and shipped every one from a Slack message.
That same team has Viktor monitoring ad accounts across the portfolio and posting performance briefs before the day starts. One colleague. Always on. Across every account.
5,700+ teams. 3,000+ integrations.
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
🤖 Adobe launches "Firefly AI Assistant" and new video tools
Adobe just introduced Firefly AI Assistant, a new conversational creative agent built into Adobe Firefly.
Describe what you want to make: a campaign, a video edit, a social set, and the assistant orchestrates and executes the steps across Photoshop, Premiere, Lightroom, Express, Illustrator, and more.
The assistant works through a growing library of “Creative Skills,” purpose-built, customizable workflows you can trigger from a single prompt.
Note: Firefly AI Assistant is not yet available. The public beta launches in the coming weeks. Join the waitlist to be notified.
Today's update also brings a major wave of new video tools to Firefly:
Kling 3.0 and Kling 3.0 Omni are now in Firefly: They join Nano Banana 2, Veo 3.1, Runway Gen-4.5, and 30+ other models already in Firefly.
Adobe Stock is now integrated directly into the Firefly Video Editor: Access 800M+ licensed assets, including video, images, audio, and sound effects, without leaving your workflow.
MOTION DESIGN
🎬 LottieFiles adds "MCP" to Lottie Creator
LottieFiles just launched MCP support for Lottie Creator. So instead of building animations manually, you describe what you want, and your AI does it inside the tool. Claude, Cursor, and 40+ other MCP clients are supported.
Once connected, your AI can read your file, edit individual layers, generate brand variants, and export a finished .Lottie file (all without leaving Creator). Get started with the MCP install guide.
📰 Other news you might’ve missed:
Microsoft added Copilot track changes and inline comments to Word, letting the AI work more like a coworker inside your document, grounded in enterprise context via Work IQ.
Google launched its desktop app for Windows globally, letting you search across the web, local files, apps, and Google Drive with a single Alt+Space shortcut (with AI Mode and Lens built in).
Adobe After Effects released Object Matte in version 26.2, an AI-powered tool for creating accurate mattes of moving subjects with a single hover and click, with Quick Selection brush refinement and Refine Edge support for hair and fine detail.
Notion connected its AI Agent to your calendar, letting it find meeting times, create and update events, and display a real grid view right in chat.
Frame.io launched Frame.io Drive, a desktop app that lets you mount your Frame.io projects directly to your computer and access media as if it's stored locally (no downloads or syncing).
Midjourney released V8.1 with native 2K HD rendering (3x faster and 3x cheaper than V8) along with restored image prompts, a new "Describe" feature, and updated moodboards and style references.
Lovable launched a desktop app with local MCP support, multi-project tabs, and native keyboard shortcuts.
Replit launched AI Supplier Research, letting you skip manual reviews and find suppliers for physical goods or software using AI.
Replit shipped a built-in File Converter skill.
Replit added global hosting across Europe, Asia, South America, and Australia for paying customers.
Claude Code introduced Routines in research preview, letting you configure a prompt, a repo, and connectors once so they run on a schedule, from an API call, or in response to an event (all on Anthropic's infrastructure, no laptop required).
Figma Weave shipped new diagramming capabilities, including Drag to Connect, Router from Handle, and bounding box wire selection.
ElevenCreative brought Seedance 2.0 to the platform.
ElevenCreative launched Version History in Studio, auto-saving project snapshots every few minutes so you can restore any previous state without losing your current work.
Resend shipped a new AI-powered email editor that extracts your brand voice from any URL, supports inline AI editing, catches mistakes before you send, includes real-time collaboration, and added MCP support so your agent can edit directly in the visual editor.
Higgsfield launched two tools powered by Seedance 2.0: Cinema Studio 3.5, with an integrated AI assistant that helps you direct scenes like a personal AI film director, and Marketing Studio, for generating finished video ads in 9 styles (UGC, Tutorial, Unboxing, TV Spot, and more) from a product link.
Lovart added PSD export, letting you take any AI-generated design out as a fully editable, multi-layer Photoshop file.
Flora AI launched Audio Node, powered by ElevenLabs, for generating voiceovers, adding foley, cloning voices, and lip syncing video — all without leaving the canvas.
Morphic launched Workflows, turning multi-step AI processes into single-click automations, with video generation powered by Kling AI.
Redshift released version 2026.5.0 with a brand-new night sky model, including a moon, stars, and the Milky Way across all Redshift plugins, plus UDIM support for texture displacement and improved UV Context Projection tiling.
OpenArt added LTX-2.3, the latest upgrade to the open video model, with sharper detail in hair, textures, and text, plus tighter prompt adherence for complex multi-subject scenes.
Rive released Editor 0.8.4602 with Timeline Graph Editor auto-zoom, file sharing links, extended State Machine zoom, and improved File Browser drag-and-drop.
Shaders launched Shaders MCP, letting AI agents find, tweak, and ship shader presets (or design one from scratch).
Paper launched a new logo shader called Gem Smoke and free usage limits are 10x this week only for the Contra challenge.
Omma added PBR material generation via the /material command, covering diffuse, normal, height, and roughness maps.
ADVERTISING
How Jennifer Aniston’s LolaVie brand grew sales 40% with CTV ads
For its first CTV campaign, Jennifer Aniston’s DTC haircare brand LolaVie had a few non-negotiables. The campaign had to be simple. It had to demonstrate measurable impact. And it had to be full-funnel.
LolaVie used Roku Ads Manager to test and optimize creatives — reaching millions of potential customers at all stages of their purchase journeys. Roku Ads Manager helped the brand convey LolaVie’s playful voice while helping drive omnichannel sales across both ecommerce and retail touchpoints.
The campaign included an Action Ad overlay that let viewers shop directly from their TVs by clicking OK on their Roku remote. This guided them to the website to buy LolaVie products.
Discover how Roku Ads Manager helped LolaVie drive big sales and customer growth with self-serve TV ads.
The DTC beauty category is crowded. To break through, Jennifer Aniston’s brand LolaVie, worked with Roku Ads Manager to easily set up, test, and optimize CTV ad creatives. The campaign helped drive a big lift in sales and customer growth, helping LolaVie break through in the crowded beauty category.
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