Impact on Products How Adobe Research drives innovation for Adobe customers

New Photoshop feature: Rotate 2D objects in three dimensions

Video of Rotate Object by Rob de Winter A new Photoshop feature, built with major contributions from Adobe Research, allows users to turn a 2D layer into a 3D object, rotate the angle and perspective of the object, and then place it seamlessly back into a scene.   The new capability,...

When audio runs short, Premiere Pro extends ambience and room tone

Adobe Research’s Sound Design AI group shares how Generative Extend brings natural, seamless audio extensions to Premiere Pro, helping creators fix gaps and preserve ambience with ease.

How Adobe Research is helping podcasters make quick, compelling, social media-ready teasers

Clip Maker, a collaboration between Adobe Research and Adobe Express, combines cutting-edge AI with intuitive design to help creators craft social-ready clips in seconds. Check out the behind-the-scenes story!

Adobe Researchers made it easy for anyone to add animation to static images in Adobe Express

Adobe Express’s new Dynamic Animation feature lets anyone add motion to still images with playful wobbles, wiggles, and bounces—all powered by years of work from Adobe Research and a close collaboration with the Express team. Check out the full story!

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Agentic Design Review System: Teaching AI to review graphic designs the way experts do 

Our Agentic Design Review System (Agentic-DRS) is an experimental multi-agent framework from Adobe Research for holistic graphic design evaluation. Specialized AI agents assess typography, color harmony, alignment, spacing, composition, and more, coordinated by a meta-agent. 

Adobe Research at Summit 2026: Agentic AI for orchestrating customer experiences 

Adobe Research was behind some of the most exciting announcements, sessions, and sneak previews at Adobe Summit - from the unveiling of new tools that help marketers understand their customers’ behavior and design customer experiences at scale to hands-on agentic AI sessions.

Object-WIPER: A Smarter Way to Erase Objects from Video 

Rather than treating object removal as a simple mask-and-fill task, Object-WIPER recognizes that objects leave visual traces in a scene — shadows on the ground, reflections in glass, translucent overlaps with the background — and that a complete removal means erasing those traces too. 

MotionStream demonstrates real-time control in AI video creation

With the new experimental technology MotionStream, video creators can interact with AI-generated video while it’s being created, directing the movement of objects and changing camera angles in real-time with the simple use of a cursor and sliders.

When the Music Fits: VidTune Helps Video Creators Find the Right Soundtrack 

The experimental technology VidTune generates multiple music tracks from a text prompt and produces visual "contextual thumbnails" for each one, letting creators compare options at a glance.

Vidmento: Filling the gaps in your video story with generative AI 

Vidmento is an experimental AI-assisted video authoring tool from Adobe Research, accepted at CHI 2026, that helps creators build complete video stories by blending their own captured footage with contextually generated clips — preserving narrative continuity and creative intent throughout. 

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The research behind Harmonize, a new generative compositing tool that blends objects into any background 

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SIGMA-GEN: Placing any subject, anywhere, exactly where you want it 

SIGMA-GEN is an experimental unified framework from Adobe Research, presented at ICLR 2026, for multi-identity-preserving image generation — placing multiple subjects into a scene in a single pass, with each subject's appearance faithfully preserved. 

Adobe takes home an Emmy for pioneering work in VR editing tools

Adobe Researchers have been honored with a Technology and Engineering Emmy for their groundbreaking work on virtual reality (VR) editing tools. The Emmy celebrates Adobe’s “significant contributions to the development of 360-degree consumer video capture, editing, and presentation technologies.”

Fearless research: John Nelson

On an exceedingly cold day 30 years ago, Principal Scientist John Nelson decided to leave his job as a Denali mountain guide and head to something warmer. With a background in computer science and fluency in Japanese, Nelson joined Adobe’s After Effects team, first working on localization, then porting tools...