Adobe Release Notes

Features

Sample size calculator

The Sample Size Calculator helps you plan experiments before launch by estimating required traffic, test duration, the number of experiences, or the minimum effect you can reliably detect. Available from the Activities menu, it uses your inputs to help you determine the resources and runtime needed for your test. The Sample size calculator feature is currently available as a beta feature. For more information, refer to the detailed documentation.

AI Insights

AI insights provides AI-generated experiment learnings and optimization opportunities for A/B Test activities with Manual traffic allocation. Once an experiment reaches statistical significance, insights highlight attributes of the winning experience that likely contributed to its performance. Suggested opportunities include new experience ideas, hypotheses, and implementation guidance to help improve conversion rates. The AI insights feature is currently available as a beta feature. For more information, refer to the detailed documentation.

Improvements

Administration

Introducing Adobe in Gemini

At Adobe, we build pro-grade tools people trust to create their best work and be more productive. Increasingly, that work is starting inside AI chatbot platforms, where people brainstorm ideas, solve problems and get things done. We want Adobe to be there too, making it easy for you to call on our tools to create high-quality content and take your work further, right from the conversation.

We’ve already brought Adobe to ChatGPT, Claude, Slack, and Copilot, and today we’re extending that work in two exciting ways. First, we’re bringing Adobe to Gemini. Second, we’re introducing Acrobat tools to our Adobe for Claude plugin for the first time, bringing our creative and productivity tools together, while also adding interactive editing capabilities that give you hands-on control to edit PDFs and customize Adobe Express designs right inside Claude.

Google Gemini has quickly become one of the world’s most widely used AI assistant platforms, helping more than one billion people each month find answers, explore ideas and tackle everyday tasks. With the new Adobe in Gemini, you can call on pro-grade tools from Photoshop, Lightroom, Express and Firefly to enhance photos, create marketing assets and customize designs, all through a conversation with Gemini. Describe the outcome you want, and Adobe orchestrates the right tools and steps to get you there.

“We’re excited to expand our partnership with Adobe and bring industry-leading creative tools directly into Gemini. Now, anyone can create, edit and bring their ideas to life right in the chat.” – Neal Pancholi, Managing Director, Global Partnerships, GDM & Gemini, Google

Here are a few ways you can use Adobe in Gemini:

• Create consistent, polished product photos: Upload your product photos and describe the look you’re after. Adobe can help optimize lighting and color, crop images consistently and prepare a polished collection that’s ready for your storefront, website or marketing materials.
• Turn one design into content for your social channels: Ask Adobe to create social-ready versions while preserving your branding and messaging, making it easier to adapt and publish content wherever your audience spends time.
• Customize professionally designed templates for your marketing needs: Describe your campaign, target audience and the style you’re looking for, and Adobe will surface Express designs that best match your needs. From there, you can ask Adobe to personalize the text, imagery and colors to quickly create polished marketing materials.

Today’s launch is the first step in our journey with Google to make our tools available in Gemini. As we’ve done across other AI platforms, we’ll continue to enhance the experience with more tools for creativity and productivity.

More ways to create, edit and refine your work in Claude

Earlier this year, we brought our pro-grade creative tools into Claude. Since launch, we’ve been delighted by feedback from creators about how the experience keeps their work moving — from a photographer refining light, color and consistency across an entire photo series to a creative director who significantly cut the time required to develop an eco-fashion campaign.

Now, the Adobe for Claude plugin is becoming a lot more powerful. We’re adding Acrobat tools to our plugin for the first time, bringing them together with our existing creative tools in one unified Adobe plugin. You can now call on more than 80 pro-grade tools across Acrobat, Express, Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, Lightroom, InDesign, Adobe Stock and more — all from the same Claude conversation. We’re also introducing new interactive editing capabilities that greatly expand how you can work with our tools in Claude. You can still describe the outcome you want and let the Adobe plugin orchestrate the work, but now you can also step directly into your content to edit PDFs and customize Express designs yourself.

Here are some of the new ways you can work with Adobe in Claude:

• Work with Acrobat tools in Claude: The Adobe plugin now includes popular Acrobat tools for working with PDFs. Organize PDFs by deleting, combining or splitting pages; redact sensitive information; and convert or export PDFs to other file formats.
• Edit and analyze PDFs directly: When you want more hands-on control, open your PDF in the new interactive editor to reorder pages, edit text or mark up the document with comments and highlights. You can also invoke the new Document Review skill and ask Claude to analyze your document and add recommendations and notations directly in the editor.
• Refine designs with Express: Building on the conversational editing already available in Claude, you can now go further with a layer-based interactive editor for Express designs, giving you hands-on control over individual elements of the design. Select and customize images, copy, colors and fonts independently, so you can refine exactly what you want without needing to regenerate the entire design — all within your Claude workflow.

These additions build on Adobe’s expansive set of creative tools already available in Claude for refining images individually or in batches, creating vectors and layouts, editing and assembling videos, and adapting content for different channels. Now, those tools can work alongside Acrobat tools to carry your project all the way through in Claude.

Go from an idea to the outcome you want with Adobe

AI chatbot platforms are making it easier than ever to turn an idea into something tangible. But getting to the result you want often takes more. Images need refinement. Designs need customization. Content needs to be adapted for different channels. Documents need to be reviewed, edited and shared.

That’s where the depth of our tools matters. For decades, we’ve built technologies to help you create your best work and be more productive. Now, we’re making that expertise easier to access across AI platforms. Whether you’re new to Adobe or an avid user of our apps, you can describe the outcome you want and call on our tools to help get you there. Call on Adobe to handle more of the workflow directly in the AI chatbot platforms you use or continue in our flagship apps when your work calls for even greater depth and precision. Wherever your conversation starts, Adobe can help you turn what you imagine into something you can use, build on and share.

Get started with Adobe today in Gemini and Claude

Adobe in Gemini is rolling out globally beginning today and is available across all Gemini plans. To get started, navigate to Personal Intelligence, select Adobe under connected apps, and sign in with your Adobe account or create one for free if you don’t already have one.

Adobe for Claude is also rolling out globally starting today across Claude and Claude Code on desktop, mobile and web. You can get started as a guest or sign in with your Adobe account to unlock the full plugin experience, including higher usage limits, additional tools and continuity across sessions. If you already have the previous Adobe connector installed, it will automatically update to the new Adobe plugin.

Google and Gemini are trademarks of Google LLC. Check responses. Setup required. Compatibility and availability varies.

Feature

Content pre-hiding

Content pre-hiding helps reduce page flicker by hiding only the sections that Adobe Target personalization is about to change, providing a smoother experience while content loads. This approach avoids hiding the entire page and helps minimize implementation effort when new activities are launched. Previously released in Limited Availability, this capability is now available to all environments (General Availability). For more information, refer to the detailed documentation.

Content pre-hiding helps reduce page flicker by hiding only the sections that Adobe Target personalization is about to change, providing a smoother experience while content loads. This approach avoids hiding the entire page and helps minimize implementation effort when new activities are launched.

Previously released in Limited Availability, this capability is now available to all environments (General Availability).

For more information, refer to the detailed documentation.

Learn how to use the Firefly video editor to remove background from video clips.

Firefly video editor is a beta feature in Adobe Firefly, now available for testing and feedback.

The Remove background feature identifies one or more subjects in the first frame of the selected portion of the clip and then consistently removes the background throughout the clip, preserving the subjects.

Use Remove background to retain the main subjects and remove the rest from videos.

Add the video clip to the timeline in the Firefly video editor.

Select the video clip in the timeline, and then in the Properties panel, turn on the Remove background toggle. You can check the progress in the Remove background section of the Properties panel. Once the process completes, the new clip replaces the original on the canvas.

Note

• You can also right-click the video clip in the timeline and then select Remove background.
• If you trimmed the video clip, Remove background still removes the background from the entire clip, but uses the first frame within the trim for subject selection.

To compare the new clip with the original, turn the Remove background toggle on and off in the Properties panel.

To download the new clip as an MP4 file, select Download in the upper-right corner of the page.

You can modify the new clip in the timeline or adjust the video properties like any other clip.

Customize your PDF Space Overview to control what recipients see when they open it. Arrange content, edit AI-generated text and audio summaries, add items, and personalize the theme and link preview.

Arrange items

Control the order and layout of items in your Overview.

Open the PDF Space to view the Overview page.
To reorder an item, hover over it until the hand cursor appears, then drag it into place.
To rename a block, select its title and edit it.
To remove an item, hover over it and select Delete > Remove.

Note

Multi-column layouts are available on large screens only. On mobile, the Overview shows a single column.

Edit AI-generated text summary

Hover over the AI-generated summary and select Edit .
Edit the text to adjust the wording, tone, or emphasis.
Select Done to update the summary.

Edit AI-generated audio summary

Select Edit in the Audio summary to update what recipients hear.
Edit the transcript to revise wording, add context, or remove items.
Select Update to apply your changes and refresh the audio summary.

Add and manage items

Create a more engaging and branded experience by adding charts, text items, and notes to your PDF Space.

Hover below any existing item in Overview and select Add content.
From the toolbar, select the type of content you want to add:

• Text: Add headings, body copy, or supporting context.
• Image: Upload a photo, diagram, or visual to support your content.
• Summary: Generate an audio or AI-written overview of your content.
• Creations: Create a note, presentation, podcast, poster, or visual summary.
• Files: Share documents, spreadsheets, or other attachments for recipients to download.
• Logo: Upload your brand logo to personalize the space.

Optionally, drag the added item to a new position or select it to edit and refine further.

Note

Creating dashboards, reports, and uploading your own video and audio, are available on the web. On desktop, you can only view this content.

Create content from your PDF Space

Use Create to create new content from the files in your PDF Space. Choose from:

• Note: A summary or set of notes you draft yourself or generate from your documents.
• Presentation: A generated slide deck that summarizes key content from your files.
• Podcast: A generated audio discussion based on your documents.
• Poster: A generated single-page visual that highlights key points from your files.
• Visual Summary: A generated visual overview that presents your content at a glance.

Customize theme and link preview

Select Customize from the left panel.
Choose a color theme or background.
To change the link preview, select Replace image, upload an image, and select Save.
Close the Customize panel.

Note

You create and customize your Overview on the web and on desktop. Creating dashboards and reports, and uploading your own video and audio, are only available on the web.

Learn how to enhance the look of your PDFs by applying Adobe Express design tools in Acrobat.

In Adobe Acrobat, you can stylize a PDF using Adobe Express design tools and with Adobe Express templates. With Adobe Express design tools, you can refresh the look of your PDF by adding shapes and icons, applying color themes, and updating backgrounds. If you are signed in with an Individual or Teams plan in Acrobat, and your document is in English, has fewer than 15 pages, and isn’t scanned or password-protected, you can also stylize a PDF using Adobe Express templates.

Follow the steps below to stylize your PDF using Adobe Express design tools:

Open the PDF and select Edit from the global bar.

Select Stylize this PDF under DESIGN WITH ADOBE EXPRESS.

Your PDF opens in Adobe Express in a new browser tab.

Use the following shortcuts from the right pop-up menu to enhance the PDF:

• Add shapes and icons: Insert geometric shapes or pre-designed icons to enhance your layout.
• Resize page: Adjust the dimensions of your PDF pages to fit different formats or requirements.
• Apply color theme: Choose from pre-set color palettes to give your PDF a cohesive look.
• Add Adobe Stock images: Browse and insert high-quality stock photos to illustrate your content.
• Change background color: Modify the background color of your PDF pages for better visual appeal.
• Get font recommendations: Receive suggestions for fonts that complement your existing text styles.

Note

Your changes are saved automatically to the Adobe Express file, and your original PDF in Acrobat remains unchanged.

Learn how to record and add voiceovers directly onto the timeline and manage them.

Firefly video editor is a beta feature in Adobe Firefly, now available for testing and feedback.

Record voiceovers

Add to the timeline the video or image for which you want to record the voiceover. Then, position the playhead at the point from which you want to start the voiceover.

Note

You can't add a voiceover to an empty timeline.

Select Record voiceover in the timeline panel. The first time you use it, or after a browser settings reset, your browser may ask for permission to let Adobe Firefly access your microphone.

A. Input device selection menu
B. Record/Stop button
C. Record voiceover icon
D. Sound meter
E. Mute/Unmute timeline playback while recording

In the Record voiceover menu, if you have more than one voice input device, select the one you want to use. Then, test the sound level by speaking and checking the sound meter.

To unmute or mute an existing audio in the timeline for the duration of your voiceover, select Unmute timeline playback while recording or Mute timeline playback while recording. Existing audio is muted by default.

When ready, select Record. Wait for the countdown of three seconds to finish, and then start the narration. As you record, the video or image will play automatically, starting from the playhead. You can narrate for up to five minutes, and beyond the video's or image's duration if necessary.

After you complete your narration, select the stop button in the Recording menu. The voiceover clip is automatically added to the first available audio track in the timeline.

To ensure that your voiceover is accurate and in sync with the video or image, move the playhead to the starting point of the voiceover, and then select Play. Trim or move the voiceover, if necessary.

To record additional voiceovers on top of the one you already recorded, repeat the steps. By default, the latest voiceover clip will be in the audio track closest to the video or image in the timeline.

To remove a voiceover clip from the timeline, select it and then press Delete.

Edit voiceover properties

Right-click the voiceover clip in the timeline, and then select Edit properties.

In the Properties panel, set the following settings as needed:

• Move the Volume slider to adjust the volume. To mute the voiceover, select Mute next to the slider.
• Move the Speed slider to increase or decrease the voiceover speed without trimming.
• Turn on the Enhance audio toggle to improve audio quality.

Rename or delete voiceover clips in the project

Right-click the voiceover clip in the Project media panel, and then select Delete from project or Rename, as required.

Note

To delete a voiceover clip from the project, remove it from the timeline first.

You know the feeling: two quizzes the same day, a term paper staring you down, a group project you have to wrangle, and an internship opportunity application you’re trying to make really stand out. With only so many hours in the day, you need to focus your time on learning the material, not on busy work. That’s the problem Student Spaces in Acrobat set out to solve when we launched it in beta this spring.

Today, we're excited to announce that Student Spaces, our AI-powered study hub, is now available to students worldwide, for free. We’re building Student Spaces with students, bringing you more ways to study smarter, new tools to build trust into your work, and features that will support you from the classroom straight into your career.

Learn more with AI you can trust and tools that professionals use

Here's what's new in Student Spaces in Acrobat:

• Focus your study time: You can already generate flashcards, quizzes, mind maps, podcasts, video summaries and more directly from your course materials and notes, so you spend less time organizing and more time actually learning. Now, flashcards and quizzes track your answers and adapt to what you still need to practice. You can even edit to make them your own.
• Create properly formatted citations easily: Every answer already links back to your source material, so you always know where the information came from. Starting later this month, you can also generate properly formatted citations in APA, MLA, Chicago and more just by entering a title, URL, DOI or ISBN.
• Study smarter with summary sheets: Upload your documents to instantly generate a customizable, editable half-sheet, one-page or two-page overview of the must-know facts, perfect for prepping before an exam or for exam-prep notes sheet.
• Convert handwritten notes into text: You asked for it: now you can upload handwritten notes directly into Student Spaces, where they're converted into digital, searchable text.
• Get resume feedback and interview help: The AI Assistant can help review and provide feedback on your resume, along with helping you to prep for interviews, so you're ready when internship and job opportunities come around.
• Study more flexibly: Video summaries are now editable too, so you can focus on the question or topic, theme and narration, so it’ truly customized to how you study. Plus, Student Spaces is now available directly in the Acrobat app on Android, so you can study wherever you are.

"I really like how it'll cite the source that I got it from. You can click on it, and it'll bring you directly to the source on the other side.”
– Max, majoring in Applied Math

Built on a foundation you already know

Your school life runs on PDFs: syllabi, course readings, lecture slides, lab reports, and even the forms for your next internship. Student Spaces builds on Acrobat's decades of experience helping people work with PDFs. The AI isn't guessing at your material, it's reading the same documents you already rely on every day and grounding every answer in it.

That's the difference between an AI tool bolted onto your classwork and one built for it. Whether you're breaking down a dense reading, polishing a presentation or getting ready for an internship interview, Student Spaces is designed to help you stand out, not stress out.

"I got to see how feedback turns into actual product changes at Adobe. It's one thing to use a tool. It's another to help build it.”
– Sheetal, master’s student in Computer Software Engineering

Made with students, for students

We aren't guessing what you need; we're listening to your feedback and building Student Spaces with students, for students. The beta taught us a lot, and today's launch reflects what you told us mattered most: tools you can trust, study help that actually sticks, and a clear path from the classroom to your career.

Use Student Spaces today

Whatever's on your plate this semester, Student Spaces is built to make it a little easier. And best of all: it's free. Just upload your docs, generate your first study set, and invite your classmates in.

Get started today!

Turn dense docs into visuals you can scan in minutes

All too often, the best insights are buried in walls of text. With new interactive reports and summary slides, Acrobat can take dense documents and turn them into something visual and easy to absorb, like charts or key takeaways. Built-in navigation lets you scan the headlines or dig into the detail.

Say you run a small business and get your quarterly financials back. Instead of reading line by line, you can turn the text-heavy report into graphs and charts that visualize your revenue trends and cost drivers, so you can literally see the impact. A marketer pulling together competitor research or customer feedback can do the same thing: drop in the source material, and instead of scanning rows of numbers, they can see the trend line rise and fall at a glance. HR teams reviewing headcount data can turn spreadsheets full of numbers into an infographic that clearly shows which teams are understaffed and need more support.

Listen and learn, wherever you are

Sometimes the best way to absorb information isn't on a screen at all. New AI audio features in Acrobat like personal podcasts, audio summaries, and read-aloud let you turn any document, or even a collection of documents, into something you can listen to.

Picture a market analyst with five research reports to get through before a Monday meeting. Instead of blocking off an afternoon, they can pull those reports into Acrobat, generate a podcast-style summary, and listen to it on their commute or during a workout. Same information, same rigor, delivered in a format that fits into a life that doesn't always have a free desk hour.

Give plain PDFs a polished, professional look

How professional information is packaged up and presented makes a difference in how it lands. New Stylize capabilities let you take plain documents, like resumes, invoices, reports, and client proposals and apply one of thousands of professionally designed Adobe Express templates, while keeping every word of your original content intact. Edit and refine as needed, and you have something that shouts, “I’m a pro!” in minutes, not hours.

For a small business, it means invoices and reports that reflect the quality and care of the work behind them. For someone looking for a next job, it means getting an updated resume with a pro polish in minutes.

Built on decades of trust

Every year, people open more than 400 billion PDFs and share more than 200 million documents with Acrobat. Some of the world’s largest companies rely on Acrobat for everything from multimillion-dollar contracts to secret formulas. That trust is built into the experience: when you ask questions of your documents in Acrobat, answers include clickable citations so you can verify the source, and Adobe does not train its models on your document data.

Work smarter with every document

Acrobat is helping redefine what it means to read and edit documents in the age of AI. Instead of poring over every word or number from beginning to end, you can understand information visually and listen to engaging audio at your desk or on the go. And when you want to turn plain docs into polished deliverables, Acrobat makes it simple to show up like a pro. With AI in Acrobat, we’re making it faster and easier for you to get the expertise you need, make decisions with confidence and do your best work every day.

Learn how to automatically adjust your video frames based on the aspect ratios for different social platforms in Adobe Firefly video editor.

Firefly video editor is a beta feature in Adobe Firefly, now available for testing and feedback.

Auto reframe lets you automatically crop and reframe videos for different aspect ratios, reducing the need for manual cropping and making it easier to export videos for the web and social media platforms such as Instagram and YouTube.

In the Firefly video editor, select the video clip in the timeline that you want to auto reframe.

Select the required aspect ratio for the video clip using the Aspect ratio icon on the upper-right side of the timeline.

Note

The Auto reframe option does not appear if the aspect ratio of the original video and the one set in the timeline is the same.

Select the Properties panel, and then turn on the Auto reframe option. You can also right-click the video clip in the timeline and then select Auto reframe.

Turn on the Auto reframe option to automatically adjust the video's frames based on the aspect ratio.

Tip

When applying Auto reframe, use it with Detect cuts to avoid unnecessary camera panning.

Once the auto-reframing is complete, select any of the following options from the Motion tracking dropdown menu:

• Slower motion: Use it when there is very little or no camera motion in the video. The generated video is almost static and requires very few keyframes.
• Default: Use it for most videos unless the motion is fast.
• Faster motion: Use it when the video has a lot of motion, so the reframing follows it. It ensures the moving object stays in the frame and adds many keyframes to your video.

Keyframes are currently uneditable; you can view them in the video timeline.

To further edit your video's properties, turn off the Auto reframe option and modify the transform controls and motion presets.

After completing your video edits, export the video and use it in your projects or share it across your preferred platforms.

Three updates and a heads-up. From full multi-page InDesign previews to a spacebar shortcut that flies through your assets, plus a simpler way to buy Frame.io. And if you’re headed to IBC this September, come find us in Amsterdam.

Preview every page of your InDesign files

Review Adobe InDesign layouts without leaving Frame.io.

Before, Frame.io showed only a single low-res thumbnail of the first page of Adobe InDesign (.indd) files. Now you can preview the full multi-page document in high-resolution, page by page—powered by Adobe’s own InDesign engine.

What’s new:

• Full multi-page previews for .indd files, browsable page by page
• High-resolution rendering powered by Adobe’s InDesign engine
• Review every page right in the player—no need to open the native file
• Multi-page files that used to stall now preview reliably

Available on: All plans

Fly through your assets with the spacebar

Select an asset, hit the spacebar, and Quicklook opens it right away. Arrow through the rest of your grid or list without clicking into each one.

It’s a faster, lower-friction way to scan and triage your work—and it works everywhere your assets live.

What’s new:

• Press space on any selected asset to open Quicklook, and use the arrow keys to move through your grid or list
• Works with every asset type, including 3D, and with folders in both Grid and List views

Available on: All plans

Buy Frame.io month-to-month on Adobe.com

The Frame.io for teams plan is now the first Adobe app you can purchase on a month-to-month term through Creative Cloud for teams—right on Adobe.com.

Many Frame.io customers prefer monthly plans for the flexibility. Now you get that same flexibility when you purchase Frame.io directly from Adobe.

What’s new:

• Buy Frame.io for teams on a month-to-month term through Creative Cloud for teams
• Purchase directly on Adobe.com
• Scale up or down without an annual commitment

Available on: Frame.io for teams, via Adobe.com

Frame.io at IBC 2026

We’re heading to IBC 2026 in Amsterdam—and if you’re at the show, we’d love to see you. Stop by the Adobe stand and we’ll show you how the latest Frame.io updates fit into your workflow, from set to final delivery.

A few things worth a look in person:

• Frame.io Drive with Mounted Storage. Bring your Frame.io assets to your desktop so you can access your media from your creative apps—without downloading everything first.
• 3D viewer. Review and comment on 3D assets as a first-class format, right alongside your video and stills.
• AI Assistant. Organize your assets, summarize your feedback, and generate b-roll—without leaving Frame.io.
• Work in your language. Frame.io is now available in German, French, Italian, Spanish, and five more languages, so you can work in your preferred language.

Find us in Hall 7, Adobe stand # 7.B35. IBC 2026 runs September 11–14 2026, at RAI Amsterdam.

See what’s new for yourself

There’s always something new to discover in Frame.io—whether you’re putting these latest updates to work or seeing what’s next in person at IBC.

And if you’re going to be in Amsterdam, come say hi.

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