Adobe Sneaks are a fan-favorite at Adobe Max. What are they?
Adobe Sneaks are a view into the future of what Adobe is working on. They demonstrate innovative, cutting-edge technologies that could become features in their products. This year Kevin Hart co-hosts the unveiling of the latest innovations. Check out this year’s Sneaks below and watch the full presentation here.
Project Clever Composites
Project Clever Composite makes compositing easy with the use of AI technology. Instead of finding the right image, cutting out the desired object and manually editing the color, tone and scale, Clever Composite does all that much more simply. Essentially it’s a drag-and-drop process.
AI makes it easy to quickly identify an object suitable for adding to a background image, automatically cut out the object, adjust its color and size for consistency with the background, and then generate appropriate shadows by analyzing the background lighting.
Project Magnetic Type
Graphic design projects often include combining shapes with text. Yet the process of merging shapes with text can present challenges during the editing process, especially when the shapes associated with the text no longer align. Correcting this issue requires a lot of tedious repositioning and alignment — even for the most advanced designers.
Project Magnetic Type lets anyone attach and instantly fuse any shape, even hand-drawn calligraphy, to a piece of live digital text. Adobe’s AI technology allows the fluid binding of shapes to text without distorting the original text’s aesthetics or its text editability. This tech uses object detection models to enable easy extraction of swashes from any calligraphic image. Which can then be fused with any live type to give it a similar look. It provides flexibility when attaching and detaching shapes or objects, and expands a designer’s creativity when developing text-based content including logos or ads.
Project Motion Mix
Have you ever wanted to create visually appealing, eye-catching videos of yourself dancing that you can leverage to become the next viral social media sensation? Project Motion Mix enables creators to easily create high-quality looping human animations, complete with realistic human movements, all from a still image.
Traditionally, generating looping human animations for video is very time-consuming and challenging with video creators needing to capture each unique motion before they can add it to the animation. This process can be especially difficult for those looking to replicate a professional dancer’s movements. Project Motion Mix does this automatically, using AI-based motion generation and human rendering technologies to create high-quality, realistic 3D movements for the subject of the video. Creators can also make changes to the video’s background, including adding a friend to the video who joins in the animation.
Project Blink
Have you ever wished you could quickly search a video to skip to the good parts or create a more shareable video clip?
Say hello to Project Blink, a new video editing tool that uses AI to help users find and quickly pull highlights out from video content. Project Blink makes it as easy to edit video as people currently edit text. To create clips, users just search for specific words, objects, sounds, or even types of activities that took place in the video, then select the portion of the video transcript they would like to use. Adobe’s AI then automatically transforms that section of the video into a new clip.
Project Blink is now available in beta. If you are interested in trying out this technology today, you can do so by signing up for beta access here.
Project Artistic Scenes
The metaverse has opened a whole new world of possibilities for those interested in developing 3D and immersive content. But creating artistic 3D content often requires significant time and special expertise.
Project Artistic Scenes uses AI to automatically transform 3D scenes using styles from 2D artwork. With Project Artistic Scenes, creators can quickly create high-quality stylized 3D content that will be essential for the future of virtual reality and augmented reality experiences. Unlike traditional style techniques that only transform 2D images, Adobe’s approach transforms the entire 3D scene. This makes it possible to transfer a 3D scene into any artistic style — imagine a playground rendered as a watercolor painting, including realistic style details such as brush strokes, creating a fully immersive, artistic 3D experience.
Project All of Me
While cropping images down to smaller sizes can be easy, extending images for un-cropping to larger sizes can be challenging — or even seem downright impossible!
With Project All of Me, anyone — a fashion designer who needs to update their website models with new clothing designs or a student hoping to create a school event flyer — can create new content and larger images with just a few clicks. This smart portrait photo editor leverages AI to generate uncropped components of photos and edit out unwanted distractions — it can even provide recommendations and modify the photo subject’s apparel.
Project Beyond the Seen
Have you ever wanted to create immersive 360° experiences from flat 2D images? You could relive a family vacation or develop a new world for the metaverse.
Pushing the limits of immersive virtual reality, Project Beyond the Seen enables you to do just that. Using Adobe’s AI to easily generate full 360° panoramas from a single image. Depth estimation methods allow users to extend a panoramic image. This creates realistic and fully immersive 3D environments. Since AI is able to generate content behind, above, below, and to the sides of the image, users can easily and quickly add objects. Including AI-generated reflections — and more.
A full list of this year’s Adobe Sneaks can be found on Adobe’s blog. Additionally, the Adobe MAX session can be viewed on-demand at max.adobe.com.
