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Changelog

May 2026

Changed
  • Use AI Assistant in Adobe Express to replace text in images (like headlines or signs) with a single request. Your edits automatically match the original style, including effects and formatting.
  • AI Assistant now understands animation adjustments. Adjust animations using natural language, describe the effect you want, and refine it instantly.
  • Get smarter font suggestions that better match your intent, even if your wording isn’t perfect, with AI Assistant in Adobe Express .
  • Add, duplicate, or delete pages using simple prompts, without switching tools, with AI Assistant in Adobe Express .
  • Rehearse and preview slide click sequences (animations, audio, video) directly in the editor before presenting using Click order in Presentations .
  • Manage multi-page designs more easily with quick-access controls for selecting, moving, resizing, or duplicating pages, with a HUD on the canvas .
  • Access a fully integrated color experience directly in Adobe Express, including color wheels, palette generation, gradient tools, and accessibility checks.
  • Preview fonts live on your design just by hovering, and compare styles instantly before committing.
  • Send designs for review in one click and let reviewers approve or request changes without needing an Adobe Express account.
  • Ensure documents are exported only after they’ve been approved, keeping you aligned with your workflow.
  • Pick up where you left off with Recent Projects directly on your home screen.
  • Find all your templates , including organization-wide and shared templates, in one unified view.
  • Add and replace assets (files, templates, brand elements) directly within AI Assistant workflows .
  • Navigate links faster with hover-enabled hyperlink previews.
  • Move designs between Figma and Adobe Express with smoother import/export workflows.
  • Access and manage assets from SharePoint alongside your Adobe Express projects.
  • Open and organize your PDFs directly within Adobe Express for a more unified workflow.
  • Generate editable, on-brand designs from templates and customize them easily for your needs.
  • Automatically access your organization’s approved brand assets without extra setup.
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April 2026

Changed
  • A redesigned Home experience for Enterprise users brings greater consistency across Adobe Express while better supporting enterprise workflows and branded experiences.
  • Automated templates for the Premier League are now live, delivering personalized Fantasy Premier League game‑week summaries through an embedded Adobe Express viewer that fans can instantly view and share.
  • Apply premade color and font combinations across an entire document with a single click using Styles .
  • A new animation sequencing Click order lets you control when and how content appears on a slide, triggered by clicks.
  • Prompt the AI Assistant to adjust audio and video playback, including volume changes, fades, trimming, speed adjustments, muting, and media timing.
  • Apply linear and radial gradients to backgrounds, shapes, and strokes using natural‑language prompts in AI Assistant .
  • When working on temporal projects, decide whether to add new media as a layer or to a new scene, improving control over video composition.
  • Adobe Express is now available through the Adobe for Creativity connector on Claude, expanding Adobe Express access across supported tools.
  • Discover, install, and use storage add‑ons directly within AI Assistant, including importing content from Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, Google Photos, and AEM.
  • Over 500 Express add‑ons are now available, including new creative and AI‑powered tools.
  • Real‑time progress updates replace stalled indicators, providing accurate job status throughout export.
  • Access sharing actions directly from Home, Your stuff , and Projects . Quickly copy links, update permissions, and create view‑only links from the file menu.
  • Enhanced audio controls, smoother playback, and a responsive framework improve video viewing across devices.
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March 2026

Changed
  • Access AI Assistant Beta on Free plans with no waitlist.
  • Access the Adobe Express agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot , allowing you to create and edit visual content with Adobe Express directly within Copilot via the Teams store.
  • Explore AI Assistant to add and replace assets from Brands via the Add button and Replace menu, allowing use of brand fonts, colors, logos, and graphics in AI Assistant workflows.
  • Use the Studio Photo AI Assistant style in the Edit image onboarding page for one‑click conversion of product photos into studio‑quality images.
  • Update brand kits by selecting and managing multiple brand elements at once.
  • Add contextual comments with Can Comment access, so you can give precise feedback without editing the design.
  • Replace images using approved sources, view swap indicators, and request access when needed.
  • Access Photoshop (.psd) and Illustrator (.ai) files in Your stuff , allowing you to quickly find and open their Adobe files directly from the Adobe Express Home experience.
  • Import PDFs with improved table support, keeping tables intact and easy to edit.
  • Export PDFs with high‑fidelity text for additional languages, including Hindi, Urdu, Marathi, Gujarati, Tamil, Kannada, Bengali, Telugu, Arabic, Hebrew, Thai, and more, ensuring accurate character rendering across 20+ scripts.
  • Print directly from Adobe Express using the new Print flow with basic configuration options.
  • View all used colors and gradients in one place with the new In Use section in the color picker.
  • Use multi-select in the layer stack to quickly and consistently edit multiple layers.
  • Access the updated selected Layer view to filter layers, with improved performance and easier editing.
  • Use non‑proportional resizing for multi‑selected shapes, allowing you to stretch width or height using side handles for greater flexibility and control.
  • Reposition captions directly on the canvas to avoid content overlap and improve accessibility.
  • Edit layers within Groups and Grids in the All Layers view, trimming and adjusting grouped and grid‑based content directly from the timeline.
  • Use Apply duration to all and Remove duration in the Layers view to quickly edit multiple scenes and convert motion projects to static.
  • Explore new add-ons like Device Mockup Generator, Countdown Timer Animation, Word Art Generator, Ainviter, DAM Panel, Rivulet, AI Image Editor, Colorify, Yodeck, Maker AI, and Design to Code, Calendar Maker. MATE for Express, Photo to Cartoon, and Liquid Metal Storyboard Addon Explorer.
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February 2026

Added
  • Add support for HEIC image import in the Adobe Express editor through file picker and drag-and-drop.
  • Introduce in‑editor auto captions on desktop, allowing fast, accurate caption generation with customizable styles and full transcript editing.
  • Use Slip Edit in the Show All Layers timeline to slide the visible portion of a video clip without changing its duration or position.
  • Deliver improved accessibility in Show All Layers with full keyboard navigation, easier editing actions, and better screen‑reader support.
  • Improve scene logic for videos by simplifying trim and extend actions, detecting timing boundaries, and providing visual snapping indicators to prevent unwanted whitespace.
  • Preview the Print & Deliver experience without signing in.
  • Export Print PDFs with an embedded CMYK color profile for a professional print output.
  • Add a main language for spellcheck in Text settings while keeping auto-detection as the default.
  • Access custom templates in Recents on Home, ordered by recent activity, to help you quickly resume template-driven workflows.
  • Use the new Edit button in object toolbars to edit without opening the left panel.
  • Use a new focused editor to generate templates in a full-screen canvas with your brand colors and typography.
  • Generate images or templates from Home search and open them directly in the editor for viewing and editing.
  • Enable the Generate Calendar add‑on as a Quick actions on the Create Calendar SEO page, allowing you to discover and use it without signing in.
  • Improve safety for K–12 users with friendly GenAI filtering that moderates, rewrites, and blocks unsafe prompts in Adobe Express and Firefly.
  • Explore new add-ons like Audio Equalizer, Fontpair, TCDam, AI Carousel Maker, PhotoLabs, Tables OCR, Image to Pixel Art, FrameSnap, Widgetry, Reverse Video, BrandGuard, Directable Signage, TextFlow, Replicator, SnapLab, JamPad Mini, Pattern, Double Exposure, Design to HTML Export, Design to Email Export, PDF2Image.
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January 2026

Added
  • Connect up to five brands to a single template using Multi-Brand Referencing , facilitating smooth brand access for remixers and restricting font and color pickers to approved options from linked brands.
  • Resize your canvas without automatically scaling or shifting elements using Crop page , with options including Fit to Content, Custom Dimensions, Presets, and manual drag handles.
  • Copy and apply styling instantly using Copy text style with the paintbrush icon.
  • Animate text with greater flexibility using text position support in the Linear Motion preset, facilitating character, word, line, or element-level animation with Start/End Outside Page support.
  • Improve text editing workflows by moving Hyperlink and Rewrite controls to the Properties Inspector and introducing the paintbrush tool for copying and pasting text styles.
  • Create and edit images using natural language prompts with Imaging Subagent , built into the Express AI Assistant, supporting AI image editing, image generation, preset looks, styles, filters, image manipulation tools, and compositing.
  • Strengthen collaboration workflows with updates to sharing and commenting for GenPresentations in Acrobat, including improved branding, notifications, and version history routing.
  • Preserve fidelity when importing masked content from PDFs, retaining vector masks and editability in Express projects.
  • Experience a cleaner and more intuitive Share menu, improving layout structure and usability.
  • Improve export discoverability with the redesigned Show All section in the Share menu, including reorganised export actions and standardised icons.
  • Replace assets more flexibly using Replace from Your stuff , supporting Files / Uploads , Projects , Libraries , and Favorites .
  • Display comment pins automatically using Show Comment Pins on File Open when a file contains comments.
  • Enhance moderation reliability for branded templates during export by improving handling of small or low-resolution uploaded assets.
  • Improve long, natural-language photo queries with enhanced semantic search capabilities for stock photos.
  • Increase stock browsing reliability and reduce latency with improvements to stock search and browse infrastructure.
  • Deliver smarter template discovery through improved machine learning ranking for dynamic collections.
  • Edit or add custom instructions within Guided Activities using Remixable Guided Activities .
  • Persist and manage development sessions in In-app code playground, including cloud code saving, multiple session storage, and onboarding guidance.
Changed
  • Improve view-only link generation reliability by enhancing video rendition handling during the publish flow.
  • Reduce initial load size and improve performance with modular, on-demand loading for Educator Resources.
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December 2025

Added
  • Generate polished slide decks from prompts or uploaded documents using Generate presentation .
  • Create designs directly in ChatGPT with Adobe Express , allowing faster idea-to-creation workflows.
  • Control access more precisely using roles and permissions , with granular, feature-level permissions for enterprise teams.
  • Animate objects with realistic motion using the Dynamic physics preset: Bounce Loop .
  • Reorder scenes directly in Scene view without entering a separate reorder mode. Learn how to create videos in Adobe Express.
  • Navigate multi-page documents more easily with multi-page zoom controls, including fixed zoom levels and keyboard shortcuts.
  • Add links instantly with auto-create hyperlink, which recognizes pasted or typed URLs automatically.
  • Transform text quickly using uppercase formatting controls.
  • Simplify document structure with auto-flatten nested groups when opening templates.
  • Copy and paste content from Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Google Workspace, ChatGPT, and the web while preserving formatting.
  • Work faster with refinements to shape manipulation and zoom behavior for clearer selection and resizing.
  • Get started faster with Workflow guidance for Bulk create , including guided steps and downloadable spreadsheets.
  • Export PowerPoint files faster with headless PPTX export, delivering significant performance gains.
  • Continue editing images in Adobe Express editor after exporting from the Express Edit Image SDK in the Acrobat Extension, with the ability to sign in and save work for reuse.
  • See feedback instantly with show comment pins when opening files.
  • Control template changes with gated updates for individual, team, and enterprise users.
  • Maintain brand consistency with multi-brand referencing , allowing multiple brands per template.
  • Choose proof destinations using select workfront project in enterprise workflows.
  • Move assets across organizations with the t ransfer of ownership for brands, files, and templates.
  • Manage generative AI access with Firefly MAC controls for enterprise environments.
  • Reduce upload friction with streamlined in-product quick actions that open file pickers immediately.
  • Discover relevant assets faster using contextual recommendations in the editor search panel.
  • Find on-brand assets with a search for custom templates in the Home search and the content editor.
  • Improve relevance with enhancements to stock search and browse.
  • See fewer irrelevant designs with out-of-season template de-boosting by locale and date.
  • Explore templates while logged out using focused mode templates in the editor.
  • Download student submissions easily as a single PDF with Bulk download .
  • Improve text creation and editing in Webpage with enhanced text handling.
  • Navigate long webpages using Table of Contents in the Webpage editor.
  • Record content more smoothly with enhancements to video self-record .
  • Create and publish collections using Personal galleries for education users.
  • Build faster with In-app code playground improvements, including multi-session code persistence.
  • Enable development instantly with developer mode activation from the playground or CLI.
  • Explore new tools in the Add-ons marketplace, including Design Digitizer, Barcode Designer, Bulk Barcode Generator, Text Behind, Feat Lingo Multi Lang, AI Audio Cleaner, and RSVP Form.
Changed
  • Improved home performance with reduced load times and improved first-use experience.
  • Reduced initial load time and memory usage with on-demand loading for Educator resources.
  • Reduced export failures by surfacing practical guidance in the Download panel.
  • Clearer error messages when PSD imports fail, to resolve issues faster.
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