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TOP STORY
🎬 Premiere Pro releases “AI Object Mask”
This week, Adobe released major updates to Premiere Pro, introducing AI-powered masking tools that make isolating and tracking subjects faster than ever.
The headline feature is "Object Mask," which lets editors create precise masks of complex moving subjects with a simple hover and click.
With Object Mask, you can now:
Mask any moving subject: Hover over a person or object and click to generate a tracked mask instantly.
Preview with visual overlays: Choose from six colored overlays or a black-and-white alpha view to see your mask in real time.
Refine with precision: Add or subtract areas using lasso and rectangular tools, then adjust feathering and expansion for a perfect fit.
Adobe also redesigned its classic "Shape Masks" (Ellipse, Rectangle, and Pen), with tracking that's now up to 20× faster and new features like bi-directional tracking and 3D perspective tracking for anchoring masks to surfaces like screens or rotating faces.
Redesigned Shape Masks
Other Premiere updates include:
Firefly Boards integration: Send AI-generated storyboard assets directly into your Premiere project with one click.
Frame.io V4 panel (beta): Access comments, media, and versioning without leaving Premiere (feedback syncs live to your timeline).
Adobe Stock integration: Browse, preview, and license footage from now, 52 million clips (!!!) without breaking your editing flow.
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WEB DESIGN
🔗 MagicPath releases “Figma Connect”
This week, MagicPath released "Figma Connect," a new feature that lets designers turn their Figma designs into interactive prototypes and production-ready code.
The feature eliminates the friction of traditional design-to-code workflows (no plugins or complex MCP setups required). Simply copy your Figma designs and paste them directly into MagicPath, with all your images, typography, colors, and layouts preserved.
MagicPath is an AI-powered design tool that works on an infinite canvas, allowing users to create components and functional apps using natural language prompts.
It was created by Pietro Schirano, formerly of Anthropic, Brex, Uber, and Facebook.
Pasting a Figma design into MagicPath
With Figma Connect, you can now:
Turn designs into living prototypes: Copy any Figma design (⌘L on Mac / Ctrl+L on Windows) and paste it into MagicPath to instantly create an interactive version.
Edit with AI using your design system: Refine and iterate on imported designs using natural language prompts while maintaining your existing styles.
Share as interactive links: Generate shareable preview links that anyone can view without creating an account.
Export production-ready code: Output your prototypes as functional code, ready for development handoff.
The feature is available now for all MagicPath users.
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ANIMATION
✨ After Effects releases "3D Shape Creation”
This week, Adobe released After Effects 26.0, introducing native 3D creation tools and major improvements for motion designers working with vectors and typography.
The update lets designers build 3D objects directly inside After Effects for the first time (no external software required).
With "Native 3D Parametric Meshes," you can now:
Build 3D shapes from scratch: Create and customize cubes, spheres, cylinders, cones, tori, and planes.
Style with Substance 3D materials: Access over 1,300 free materials to add realistic textures to your models.
Add realistic lighting: New Spot and Parallel shadows enhance depth and realism in your scenes.
Variable Shapes animation
Other notable updates include:
SVG import as shape layers: Import SVG files as native shape layers, preserving gradients and transparency for full vector fidelity.
Variable Fonts animation: Keyframe font axes such as weight, width, and slant using the Text Animator system for dynamic, kinetic type.
Unmult effect: Quickly composite footage with solid black or white backgrounds.
New audio effects: Gate, Compressor, and Distortion for shaping sound without leaving After Effects.
Faster preview playback: Extended preview durations with less disk space usage.
All updates are available now in Creative Cloud.
OTHER STORIES
Everything else in creative news 🗞
Google acquired “Common Sense Machines,” an AI 3D image generator startup.
Figma Make now allows you to preview changes before they run, manually edit text or delete specific elements, and includes a new navigation bar that lets you route to a specific screen in your prototype.
Figma now allows you to embed Figma Make prototypes in Figma Design, FigJam, and Figma Slides.
Figma Discovery Pipeline for Governance+ now exports all text edits plus the user-authored portion of AI prompts, including those submitted through Make, on a go-forward basis.
Framer released “Advanced Hosting,” bringing built‑in Multi Site and Custom Headers to Framer.
Framer released “Instant Font Previews,” allowing you to open the Font Picker, hover over a font, and see how it will look when applied to your selected layer.
Framer released “Tutorials,” a new section in the Framer Marketplace.
Lovable released “Public Profiles,” allowing you to set a username, profile picture, and cover image.
LTX Studio released “Audio-to-Video,” allowing you to start from audio to get consistent voices, control over performance, and actions timed to the beat.
ElevenLabs added support for LTX Studio’s new Audio-to-Video model on the ElevenLabs Creative Platform.
ElevenLabs released “The Eleven Album,” a first-of-its-kind collaboration between GRAMMY-nominated, chart-topping artists and Eleven Music.
Runway Gen-4.5 now has Image-to-Video capabilities.
Gamma released “Remix,” allowing you to adapt any presentation for a new purpose.
LottieFiles released 4 new updates: Shy Layers, Paste any Lottie JSON, Fit Scene to Selection, and Trimmed Nested Layers.
Jitter released “Formulas” in input fields, allowing you to do quick math in Jitter’s numeric fields.
Freepik released “Video Color Grading,” a new feature that allows you to explore professional styles.
Freepik released “Custom Templates,” allowing you to turn your prompts, characters, models, and references into shareable links.
Freepik released “Freepik Business,” a new plan with unlimited generations, collaborative projects & space, up to 30 seats, and more.
Replit is releasing a new “Pro Plan” with more credits, proprietary support, and up to 15 users in one workspace.
Paper released a new Halftone CYMK shader, new filters (blur, saturation, invert, and more), which now allows you to edit SVG colors with selections, and more.
Paper released a “Paper Roadmap” page showcasing what is coming soon to Paper.
Manus released “App Publishing,” allowing you to publish your app in Manus and test on your phone via Google Play or Apple TestFlight.
Higgsfield AI released “AI Influencer Studio,” a viral AI influencer builder with over 1 trillion customization options.
Higgsfield AI released “Higgsfield Earn,” the first-ever monetization platform built for AI influencers.
VEED released a mobile app that allows you to create AI actors, scripts, captions, and zooms.
KREA AI released “Realtime Edit,” which allows you to edit images using complex instructions in real time.
Suno released “Sounds (Beta),” allowing Pro and Premier users to create one-shots and loops from scratch for two credits per generation.
Suno released “Mashup,” its newest feature that lets you take any two songs on Suno and blend them together.
Shots added a new “Glass” style.
Tella added support for custom logos.
Artlist released “AI Toolkit,” a tool that centralizes advanced image, video, and voiceover generation models into one cohesive, creator-focused production platform.
Restream now allows you to enable YouTube live stream ads directly in Restream, and even set the frequency.
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