This week’s new tools, tutorials, and resources 👇
Noise & Texture: A Figma plugin to dynamically generate seamless tiled noise, textures, patterns, gradients, and more. (NEW UPDATE)
Uiverse: The largest library of open-source UI community-built library of UI elements (FREE).
Reve: Create custom image filters and edit properties in real-time (FREE).
Button Stealer: A Chrome extension that automatically collects and displays buttons from the websites you visit, building a local gallery as you browse (FREE).
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TOP STORY
🎬 Apple releases “Creator Studio”
This week, Apple released "Apple Creator Studio," a new subscription bundle that brings together Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro, Pixelmator Pro, Motion, Compressor, and MainStage — plus premium content and AI features for Keynote, Pages, and Numbers.
The bundle is Apple's answer to Adobe Creative Cloud, giving creators a single subscription for video editing, music production, image editing, and visual productivity across Mac, iPad, and iPhone.
Apple Creator Studio costs $12.99/month or $129/year (with a one-month free trial).
Students and educators get a steep discount at $2.99/month or $29.99/year. It launches January 28.
Alongside the bundle, Apple is introducing new AI-powered features across its creative apps 👇
1) Final Cut Pro: AI-Powered Editing
Beat Detection in Final Cut Pro
Transcript Search: Type phrases to instantly find exact or related soundbites across hours of footage.
Visual Search: Locate moments by searching for objects or actions, then drop them into the timeline.
Beat Detection: AI‑powered Beat Grid from Logic Pro to align cuts to musical beats, bars, and sections.
Montage Maker (iPad): Auto‑edit the best moments, adjust pacing, cut to music, and vertically reframe with Auto Crop.
Motion and Compressor access: Magnetic Mask for auto isolation/tracking; customize output settings integrated with Final Cut Pro.
2) Logic Pro: New AI Session Players
Synth Player is a new AI tool that creates customizable, realistic electronic performances.
Synth Player: A new AI Session Player that generates realistic electronic music performances, chordal parts, and synth bass lines, that you can customize and direct.
Chord ID: Analyzes any audio or MIDI recording and automatically extracts the chord progression, eliminating manual transcription.
Sound Library updates: Apple‑designed packs and Producer Packs with hundreds of royalty‑free loops, samples, patches, and drums.
Music Understanding: Natural language search in the Sound Browser (describe the loop you want instead of digging through filters).
3) Pixelmator Pro: Now on iPad
For the first time, Pixelmator Pro is coming to iPad with full Apple Pencil support, touch-optimized controls, and the complete toolset from the Mac version.
New features include:
Pixelmator Pro on iPad: Full touch-optimized workspace with Apple Pencil support, working seamlessly between iPad and Mac.
New Warp tool: Twist and shape layers freely, plus Warp-powered product mockups for subscribers.
Super Resolution and Deband: AI upscaling and compression artifact removal using on-device models.
Auto Crop and smart selection: Intelligent composition suggestions, advanced bitmap/vector masks, precise Apple Pencil hover/squeeze/double‑tap features.
Layers sidebar and video elements: Build designs with images, shapes, text, and even video in a desktop‑class iPad UI.
Apple acquired Pixelmator in late 2024. This marks the first major integration of the image editor into Apple's ecosystem.
4) Keynote, Pages & Numbers: Premium Features
Subscribers get access to a new Content Hub with curated photos, graphics, and illustrations, plus premium templates.
New features include:
Content Hub: curated, high-quality photos, graphics, and illustrations accessible in Keynote, Pages, and Numbers.
Premium templates and themes: new subscriber-only templates across all three apps.
Image creation/editing: generate or transform images using OpenAI models; on-device Super Resolution and Auto Crop.
Keynote beta tools: generate presentation drafts from outlines, auto‑create presenter notes, and clean up slide layout/placement.
Numbers Magic Fill: pattern-based formula generation to fill tables intelligently.
All apps in the bundle can also be purchased individually (Final Cut Pro at $299.99, Logic Pro at $199.99, Pixelmator Pro at $49.99).
Up to six family members can share a single subscription.
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DESIGN
⚡ Rive releases “Scripting”
This week, Rive released "Scripting," a major update that lets you iterate on code, design, and animation in one place, bringing back the creative freedom that Flash gave designers and developers, but rebuilt for modern platforms without needing a plugin.
With Scripting, you can now build entire experiences like games, interactive UI, and full apps, then ship them anywhere: web, iOS, Android, Unity, Unreal, and more.
Created with Rive Scripting
Here's what you can build:
Particle effects: Create confetti, trails, bursts, and other dynamic effects without manually animating every frame.
Physics: Add gravity, bouncing, and natural-feeling motion to your designs.
Live data connections: Design interfaces that automatically update with real information (like user profiles or product listings) directly in the editor.
Dynamic components: Build elements that respond and change based on user interaction or data.
Rive also introduced an "AI Coding Agent" alongside Scripting to help non-coders get started.
You can ask it questions, generate code through chat, and review changes (all without leaving the editor).
The AI Coding Agent is included on all paid plans via monthly AI credits: Cadet ($5/seat), Voyager ($16/seat), and Enterprise ($40/seat).
Here are some examples of what you can create with Rive Scripting 👇
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VIDEO EDITING
🎨 Higgsfield AI released “Mixed Media”
This week, Higgsfield AI released "Mixed Media," a video stylization tool that transforms any footage into 30+ cinematic looks including: hand-paint, comic, noir, sketch, vintage, and more.
The feature eliminates the need for manual frame-by-frame stylization, making professional visual effects accessible to indie filmmakers, music video directors, and content creators without the typical VFX budget or post-house costs.
Higgsfield AI is a generative video startup founded in 2023 by Alex Mashrabov, former Head of Generative AI at Snap.
With Mixed Media, you can now:
Transform footage instantly: Upload any video and apply 30+ preset styles (Sketch, Noir, Comic, Hand Paint, Vintage, LSD, Particles, and more) to create stylized edits in seconds.
Output in up to 4K: Generate professional-grade stylized clips up to 15 seconds long with adjustable frame rates from 4-24 FPS.
Control color with precision: Use tri-layer color controls to independently adjust background, mid-layer, and subject tones for fine-tuned results.
You can explore a gallery of videos created with Higgsfield AI’s “Mixed Media” feature here.
OTHER STORIES
Everything else in creative news 🗞
Adobe released a dedicated YouTube Shorts creation space in the Premiere mobile app, allowing you to create with exclusive templates and effects, edit on a multi-track timeline with AI tools, and publish directly to Shorts.
Maxon previewed “Digital Twin,” a standalone app that transforms 3D models into photorealistic digital products.
Google released “Veo 3.1 Ingredients to Video,” allowing you to turn reference images into more consistent, creative vertical videos upscaled to 1080p or 4K and verify AI-generated clips with SynthID.
Figma now allows Admins on Organization and Enterprise plans to view historical AI credit usage data to better plan for future costs.
Figma released “Enterprise Key Management” (EKM), allowing your organization to encrypt Figma file date with your own AWS Key Management Service (KMS) keys.
Replit released “Mobile Apps,” allowing you to build native iOS apps from a simple prompt, preview your app instantly by scanning a QR code with Expo Go, then publish to the App Store with one click.
Webflow is opening its first office in Argentina.
Webflow released “Quick Access,” giving you a faster path into the Webflow canvas to edit content — by adding ?update to any Webflow-hosted site URL, you can jump straight into editing the page you’re viewing.
Webflow AI is now enabled by default across all Workspaces (including Enterprise).
Rive for Unity is now live in the Unity Asset Store.
Rive released “React Native runtime v0.1.5,” unlocking Scripting support with full Data Binding coverage in RN (all properties supported).
Riverside released Magic Audio, Pause Removal, and Correct Captions in the Riverside mobile app.
Runway released the “Story Panels” app, a simple way to turn a single character or product image into a three panel stack that tells a story.
Runway released the new “Runway Academy,” featuring new courses, tutorials, prompting resources and more — now with the ability to log in with your Runway account to track progress and keep informed of new content.
Runway announced the “Runway AI Summit,” a new, daylong gathering in New York on March 31st.
Higgsfield AI raised $80M, bringing their total funding to $130M+ at a $1.3B valuation.
Suno released Studio v1.1, now with: faster multitrack exporting, a redesigned Studio Project Browser, a dedicated EQ track, a new cover mode on Stems, and more.
Lottielab released “Bento Blocks,” a new template pack with bento-style card layouts and animations.
Freepik released “Change Camera,” a new feature that allows you to create a complete 360º view from just one image, generating every angle to find the exact perspective you need.
Freepik updated “Topaz Upscaler,” a powerful video upscaler, now with more flexibility and better quality scene-by-scene.
Freepik released “Favorites,” allowing you to like your creations to quickly find them in the new Favorites section.
Invideo released “Camera Controls,” allowing you to bring pro-level filmmaking decisions into your workflow.
Reve released “Effects,” allowing you to create and customize any filter you can imagine.
HeyGen released “HeyGen for Business,” a new plan for teams.
Vercel acquired Surge Elements, a collection of AI visual elements built on Rive.
Magnific released a “Infinite Grid” view.
v0 announced “v0 Prompt to Production Week,” a global build week for shipping real apps and agents with v0.
v0 Max (powered by Opus 4.5) is now the new default AI model for all v0 users.
Cap released v0.4.3, now with: video import support, advanced compression controls, enhanced cursor and zoom interpolation, and more.
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