Last updated on
Apr 14, 2026
Find out about the latest updates, new features, and bug fixes in recent Adobe Express releases.
March 2026
Feature updates
- 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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Feature updates
- 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.
Feature updates
- 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.
- Explore over 400 integrations in the Add-on marketplace, including newly added add-ons such as Tofy AI, My Emoji, Image Filters, Coloringbook Maker, Voice Maker, AI Model Fusion, Next Barcode Suite, Pixel Pluck, AI Interior Design, Voiceover Pro, Gen Video, Image Studio, Img Crafter AI, Transcribe, AI Music, CI Hub, Brand Connector, Audio Visualizer, Shopify Connector, AI Dialogue, Auto Chart Builder, Car AI Studio, and Text Behind Image.
System updates
- 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.
Feature updates
- 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 transfer 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.
System updates
- 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.
Feature updates
- Work in a cleaner, more streamlined interface with the updated editor featuring a centralized Edit page panel and fixed contextual toolbar.
- Resize designs more flexibly with new layout variations that help preserve or adapt your original design.
- Add organic, physics-based motion to text, shapes, and icons using the extended Dynamic Physics presets.
- Apply custom crop shapes using SVGs uploaded to Brands or Libraries, now supported for enterprise workflows.
- Load the editor more quickly with optimized caching and startup performance across platforms.
- Experience a faster Home load with major improvements delivered through the Fast Home initiative.
- Convert PSDs more efficiently with new client-side PSD conversion, reducing processing times for large files by up to 85%.
- Order printed products in Australia and Canada with expanded Print & Deliver availability across 11 items.
- Resize designs with improved layout options and updated algorithms for more accurate results.
- Control video playback more effectively with new video controls in Presentation mode.
- Animate text more dynamically with enhancements to the Drop animation preset, now supporting character-, word-, line-, and element-level motion.
- Insert Titles, Headings, and Body text that automatically match your document’s existing styles using updated Text Defaults.
- Browse and generate images in Acrobat with a refined UI featuring clearer categories, improved hover-state, Insert overlays, and better no results handling.
- Act on editing prompts in the Acrobat Extension with newly introduced Next Best Action workflows.
- Upgrade instantly with a simplified enterprise Just-In-Time licensing workflow across all monetisation trigger locations.
- Apply custom SVG crop shapes from Brands or Libraries in enterprise documents.
- Use Workfront approval workflows across organisations with updated cross-org IMS support.
- Give contextual feedback more effectively through expanded contextual commenting for comment-only collaborators.
- Preview changes instantly with Live preview in guided workflows such as Start from your content.
- Learn tools in context with short video guidance available through the video guidance icon inside the editor.
- Navigate the refreshed desktop editor more efficiently with a simplified left navigation, fixed header, and streamlined UI.
- Improve music recommendations by providing thumbs-up or thumbs-down feedback in the music recommendation interface.
- Discover relevant templates with improved browse ranking powered by collection-name search understanding.
- Get inspired instantly with recommended searches that appear when focusing on the Home search bar.
- Upload files more efficiently in storage add-ons with improved folder dropdowns and breadcrumb navigation.
- Explore sample code more easily with deep-linked snippets in the in-app code playground for add-on developers.
- Discover new add-ons, including Text Gradient Pro, vCard Generator, Type Craft, AKOOL AI, AI Video Clipping, Muzaic Soundtracks, and more, now available in the Add-ons marketplace.
System updates
- Significant performance improvements across PDF export, editor load, and Home load times, delivering up to 30–50% faster performance in key areas.
- Stability enhancements across content rendering, document import, search ranking, and enterprise workflows.
Feature updates
- Try the new AI Assistant (beta) to create and edit designs conversationally, combining natural prompts with contextual understanding of design elements.
- Experience the rollout of Adobe Express Photos (Project Harmony), now available globally, to capture, edit, and design screenshots and images.
- Add and edit color gradients using the Color Picker to apply linear or radial gradients to shapes, text, and backgrounds.
- Import and use SVG files directly in your projects from local uploads or AEM Assets.
- Set predefined text defaults for Titles, Headings, and Body to establish a clear visual hierarchy.
- Resize text more easily from sides or corners, even when decorations are hidden.
- Edit text in a cleaner, focused mobile workspace with background blur for distraction-free editing.
- Interact more intuitively with grouped elements as part of ongoing group usability improvements.
- Enable font size with decimals in Settings > General > Text for precise control.
- Select objects underneath transparent overlays for easier editing on complex templates.
- View improved poster frames for GIFs, now using the middle frame for better visibility.
- Access the Animation panel directly via deep links from SEO pages or related Adobe.com content.
- Resize and scroll the Show All Layers timeline with snap and auto-scroll support for better control.
- Add transitions, upload media, and insert blank scenes directly within the Show All Layers view.
- Edit precisely with snapping feedback when trimming or moving clips on desktop.
- Select and apply actions to multiple scenes at once in All Layers view.
- Lock assets in the Sceneline All Layers view for safer editing.
- Reorder scenes directly in All Layers view for faster timeline management.
- Customize and purchase new printable products including mugs, pillows, tote bags, and stickers.
- Use activation cards in the calendar to quickly create captions, post ideas, or schedule content.
- Publish designs directly to Instagram for a faster, simplified workflow.
- Export PDFs with gradients applied to text, shapes, and images for high-fidelity output.
- Create view-only links with clearer guidance and improved permission feedback.
- Assign and preview Guided Activities directly from Classrooms with new imagery and value props.
- Discover contextual recommendations in the All tabs of Media and Elements for faster content access.
- Search or generate content more intuitively with the redesigned Home search bar, featuring filters and parameters.
- Discover updates in the new What’s New section within the Learn Panel.
- Access Resize Quick Actions with new aspect ratio handles and real-time thumbnail previews.
- Use new desktop shortcuts: Redo (Cmd/Ctrl + Y), Text (T), and Add Page (Cmd/Ctrl + Enter).
- Enjoy frictionless Quick Actions on Safari with improved exports and upload performance.
- Find tools faster in the editor using global Intent/Tool Search.
- Preview Commonly Done Together Quick Actions live before applying them.
- Navigate with a simplified Left Nav, Page Properties Panel, and updated Editor Header for cleaner layout.
- Benefit from a new free user credit cycle of 10 daily Firefly credits refreshing every 24 hours.
- Browse Durable Collections in the Add-ons Marketplace Home for curated creative extensions.
- Discover new add-ons including Streamline Icons, Frontify, Bynder Connector, Iconiverse, and 3D Importer.
System updates
- Enjoy faster view-only link generation with optimized image rendition management and reduced network calls.
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