Adobe MAX 2025: Ten “Sneaks” Offer Glimpse Into Future Of AI-Powered Tools

Adobe’s annual MAX Sneaks event on day 2 of Adobe MAX 2025 returned with flair, humour, and a lineup of prototypes that are not yet available to the public but serve as inspiration for future product features. Hosted by Adobe’s own Paul Trani, and Emmy-nominated comedian Jessica Williams, the session spotlighted ten experimental projects developed by Adobe Research, each offering a peek into what might soon be made possible across Adobe’s Creative Cloud suite of products.

You can watch the entire MAX Sneaks showcase from the YouTube live stream below, and be prepared to have your mind blown. Here’s a breakdown of each innovation:

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  • Project Motion Map – this gives users the ability to type in prompts to utilise AI to auto-animate vector designs in Adobe Illustrator.
  • Project Clean Take – this enables users to edit a video transcript’s text and the AI is able to replace words spoken without the need to reshoot. It also detects and separates out the various audio tracks in a video and gives the user full control on what noises/distractions or sound effects to mute, or dial down in volume.
  • Project Surface Swap – this enables users to do a selection of an entire surface of an object and replace the texture of colour, within Photoshop.
  • Project New Depths – this enables users to make modifications to their photos by using AI to identify the various depths and layers within the photo, and place new objects automatically in front or behind various elements within a 3D environment constructed from multiple photos taken at different angles.
  • Project Light Touch – this enables users to control the lighting of a photo after having taken it.
  • Project Scene It – the Ai is able to generate a 3D mesh of an object from just one image of it, and place it in any AI-generated scene with realistic lighting applied.
  • Project Trace Erase – this enables users to simply select an object to remove and the AI will auto detect and remove every trace of it from the image, even when it casts and shadow of reflection.
  • Project Frame Forward – this enables users to edit videos as easily as if it was a single image.
  • Project Sound Stager – this users AI to auto-generate scecens and sound effects just from analysing a video.
  • Project Turnstile – this uses AI to convert any flat image or 2D object into a 3D object with just a click of a button, allowing the user to change the angle of facing of the subject at anytime, with no loss in image quality.