This week’s new tools, tutorials, and resources 👇
AutoDraw: An AI-powered drawing tool by Google that suggests professional artwork as you sketch.
MiroMiro: A Chrome extension that extracts design assets, code, and design tokens from any website.
Pomelli by Google Labs: An AI-powered marketing tool that generates brand-consistent social media content and studio-quality product photos.
Contra: Hire, manage, and pay flexible talent with ease on Contra, the commission-free freelance platform.
Reve: AI image generator and editor with natural-language editing, and drag-and-drop remixing.
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TOP STORY
📸 Google releases “Photoshoot” in Pomelli
This week, Google released "Photoshoot," a new feature in its free AI marketing tool Pomelli that turns simple product photos into professional studio-quality and lifestyle imagery.
Powered by Google's “Nano Banana” image generation model, Photoshoot eliminates the need for expensive studio setups by automatically applying your brand's aesthetics to any product shot.
Pomelli is a free tool from Google Labs designed for small-to-medium-sized businesses.
It analyzes your website to build a "Business DNA" profile, capturing your brand's tone, fonts, colors, and imagery, then uses that profile to generate on-brand marketing assets and social media campaigns.
Here's how it works:
Pick a product: Start with any photo (no professional polish needed).
Choose a template: Select from curated templates like studio or lifestyle, or let Pomelli suggest options for you.
Generate: Pomelli applies your Business DNA to create professional images that feel on-brand.
Refine: Edit and adjust with finishing touches before downloading.
Google also released several other improvements alongside Photoshoot:
Improved image generation: More accurate prompt-following with editing capabilities (e.g., "change my background to a forest") and style reference images to restyle content.
Smarter campaigns: Upload images directly to campaign prompts, or enter a product URL to generate campaigns based on the images, title, and description from your site.
Pomelli is available as a free public beta in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
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DESIGN
🔗 Figma releases "Claude Code to Figma Design"
This week, Figma released "Claude Code to Figma Design," a new integration that lets developers send work from Claude Code directly into Figma as fully editable design layers.
By installing the Figma MCP, users can simply type "Send this to Figma," and the browser's rendered state automatically translates into native Figma layers (no manual recreation needed).
What's an MCP? MCP (Model Context Protocol) is a standard that lets AI tools like Claude connect to external apps and services.
Think of it like a plugin. Installing the Figma MCP gives Claude Code the ability to read from and push to Figma directly.
The integration also works in reverse: after exploring and refining options on the Figma canvas, designers can pull design changes back into their codebase using the same Figma MCP.
This marks a shift away from the traditional linear workflow of brainstorm → design → code. With this release, teams can now start anywhere, whether in a terminal, a prompt box, or on the canvas, and move fluidly between building and designing.
With the canvas, you can:
Think divergently: Compare multiple approaches side by side to see the big picture before committing to a direction.
Edit with precision: Use direct manipulation to refine details visually, rather than adjusting through code alone.
Escape tunnel vision: Zoom out from the momentum of building to evaluate whether you're headed in the right direction.
The integration is available now via the Figma MCP for Claude Code.
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FREELANCING
💰 Contra releases “Contra Payments”
This week, Contra released "Contra Payments," a major update to how creatives get paid on the platform, introducing digital products, payment links, subscriptions, and a revamped fee structure.
Previously, Contra supported projects and invoices with a flat $29 contract fee. Now, the fees scale based on payment size (starting at $2 for transactions under $200), and the platform supports far more ways to earn.
For those unfamiliar, Contra is a commission-free freelance platform for independent creatives, designers, developers, writers, and marketers, where freelancers keep 100% of their earnings.
Over 1.2 million creatives have earned more than $200M on the platform since 2021.
With Contra Payments, you can now:
Sell digital products: List and sell templates, AI prompt packs, digital downloads, and subscriptions directly from your profile, with Contra handling tax collection and remittance as the merchant of record.
Create payment links: Generate shareable checkout links for one-time or recurring payments that work anywhere on the web (no project setup or client sign-up required).
Send one-off invoices: Bill clients with guest checkout support (credit card, ACH, and SEPA), so clients don't need a Contra account to pay.
Manage structured projects: Set up escrow, milestone, or invoice-based engagements with built-in contracts and dispute assistance.
The update positions Contra as a direct alternative to platforms like Gumroad and Lemon Squeezy for selling.
Contra also introduced a new "Contra Max" tier that waives all platform fees entirely, alongside updated Pro pricing that cuts client fees by 50%.
OTHER STORIES
Everything else in creative news 🗞
Figma now allows you to switch between AI models directly from the prompt box in Figma Make.
Figma released new Figma Make connectors, allowing you to connect to new apps like Amplitude, Box, Dovetail, Granola, Marvin, and zeroheight.
Canva released new AI-powered workflows, including: Image-to-Video, Style Match, AI video generation, and more.
Google released “Lyria 3” in Gemini, allowing users to generate 30-second tracks using text or images.
Stitch by Google now allows you to export designs from any Stitch agent directly to Figma as editable designs.
Adobe Lightroom released “Generative Upscale,” allowing you to upscale your images up to 4x (powered by Topaz Lab).
Figma released updates to connectors in Figma Make: More partners added (Amplitude, Box, HeyMarvin, DoveTail, ZeroHeight), and you can now build your own custom connectors.
Descript now allows you to click “Save as new layout” to replace the layer content with a generic one based on its type (Use placeholder), keep the layer unchanged in your layout (Keep content), or remove the layer from the layout (Leave out).
Replit released “Replit Animation,” a new feature that allows you to vibecode your next video in minutes.
Replit Design Mode is now powered by Google Gemini 3.1.
Framer released “Flow Effect” support to Layout templates, allowing you to animate sections in response to interactions or components.
Framer released “Dynamic Filters,” allowing you to bring customizable filtering of CMS content to your Framer sites.
Lovable released “Cross-Project Referencing,” allowing you to pull in context across your workspace (files, components, chat history) so new projects don’t start from scratch.
Lovable released the “Lovable Slack connector,” allowing you to connect your Lovable apps directly with Slack, letting your apps read & send messages in Slack.
Runway now allows you to access all of the world’s best AI models inside of Runway, including: including Kling 3.0, Kling 2.6 Pro, Kling 2.5 Turbo Pro, WAN2.2 Animate, GPT-Image-1.5, Sora 2 Pro, and more.
Runway added support for Gen-4.5 to the Runway API.
Freepik released “List Nodes” in Spaces, allowing you to turn a single design into ready-to-launch versions for every region.
Freepik released new updates to Voice Clone, Multiple-Speaker Voiceovers, and Change Voice: you can now create reusable custom voices, add 2 speakers to generate natural dialogues, and instantly replace the voice in any audio.
Freepik released “Magnific Video Upscaler,” a video upscaler that supports up to 4k resolution, with FBS Boost for smoother motion, a custom mode for total control, and more.
Jitter released “Blend modes Templates,” a collection of templates that add instant depth and texture to your scenes with color shifts, contrast boosts, duotones, and more.
Freepik added support for Recraft V4.
Gamma added support for Recraft V4.
MagicPath added support for Google Gemini 3.1 Pro.
MagicPath added support for Claude Sonnet 4.6.
v0 added support for Claude Sonnet 4.6.
Restream now supports streaming in both vertical and horizontal orientations simultaneously using its free OBS plugin.
Pika released “Pika AI Selves”, a service that lets you create a persistent, customizable AI version of yourself (or any persona) that talks, posts, remembers, and acts across platforms on your behalf.
Bolt for Teams released several improvements, including: Team templates, Security scans, External database support, Admin deploy controls, Model persistence, and more.
Bolt added support for Claude Sonnet 4.6.
Replit now integrates with Databricks to let enterprise teams vibe code living applications and deploy them directly into Databricks Apps.
Reve redesigned the app; all your tools are now on the right, and you can make changes to anything just by clicking directly and prompting.
LTX Studio now allows you to create consistent characters from any angle using Multi-Image Ref in Elements.
Cap now allows you to import Loom videos directly into Cap.
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