Adobe announced a range of new AI-driven editing features across its Creative Cloud apps at its Max event in November 2026, with a focus on making it faster to remove unwanted elements from photos, videos, and audio recordings.
The most notable addition to Premiere is a new Generative Remove tool, currently in beta, that lets editors erase objects — such as boom mics or background clutter — directly on the video timeline. Users mask and track an object, click Remove, and the tool fills the erased area with AI-generated detail while leaving surrounding footage intact. Premiere is also gaining sound editing tools that can clean up recordings and separate audio into individual tracks for dialogue, music, ambience, and sound effects. The Generative Media tool, introduced earlier this year, is now generally available, as is the Color Mode color editing experience that launched in beta in April.
Photoshop’s existing Remove Tool has been updated to better detect and reconstruct elements associated with erased objects, including reflections, shadows, and footprints. Two features new to Photoshop are also launching: Quick Compare, a before-and-after split-screen slider for reviewing edits, and Relight, which lets users add and position light sources on an image with adjustable hue and brightness.
In Lightroom, the blemish removal tool previously available only on mobile is coming to the desktop version, enabling single-tap skin retouching. An Open Eyes feature is also entering public beta, replacing closed eyes in photos with open-eye results matched from a reference image in the user’s library.
Adobe’s Firefly AI suite is also expanding, with Quick Actions — automated workflows for tasks like generating video thumbnails and product ads — now generally available. New beta features include Firefly Design, a combined workspace for illustration, animation, 3D, and print, and Firefly Graph, a tool for building custom, repeatable workflows. A private beta for Firefly Builder, aimed at prototyping websites and apps, was also introduced.
Adobe said the updates are intended to make design and editing projects faster and less complicated across its app ecosystem.
Source: The Verge