Adobe unveils AI-powered tools for 3D photo navigation, character creation and audio mixing at Max conference
Adobe demonstrated experimental AI features that turn images into navigable 3D scenes, enable conversational character design, and simplify audio editing, hinting at future integration into Creative Cloud.
Adobe revealed a suite of experimental AI tools at its annual Max conference, showcasing new ways to manipulate images, video and audio. One prototype, Project Screen Test, lets creators develop AI-generated characters by conversing with them, defining personality traits and backstory before generating animated screen tests for specific scenarios. The feature is currently a standalone demo and its path to Adobe's existing video tools remains unclear.
Another preview, Project Sight Span, converts any flat image—photos, paintings or illustrations—into a three-dimensional environment that users can navigate and re-position. The system extrapolates surrounding objects and backgrounds while preserving artistic styles, allowing aggressive viewpoint changes that differ from traditional photo framing.
Project Sound Bender offers an AI-driven audio-mixing interface where users describe desired sound effects in text and then adjust them on a visual canvas, with the system generating and synchronising sounds to a video clip in real time.
Adobe also introduced Project Rinse Repeat, a Photoshop-based tool that copies edits made to one subject and automatically applies them to similar elements in the same image, keeping the adjustments fully editable with native Photoshop controls.
"Making these interactions more intuitive is also about giving experienced creatives more precise control," senior principal Adobe research scientist Gautham Mysore told The Verge. "Sound Bender’s sonic exploration capability and Sight Span’s camera positioning are examples of how professionals could apply their judgment and refine a result more directly."
While the projects are presented as tech previews without guarantees of release, they reflect Adobe's broader strategy to embed generative AI across its Creative Cloud and Firefly platforms. The company suggests that, if the tools prove useful, they could eventually replace traditional editing utilities and stock libraries used by creative professionals.