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And… Happy Leap Day! This week we’re covering some small updates from Adobe (you’ll love these, designers).

We’ll also be covering a cool collaboration between Adobe and TikTok that will help all the short-form creators out there.

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Adobe Express and TikTok have joined forces to bring an integration to content creators and marketers called the “TikTok Creative Assistant.”

This collaboration is live through an add-on in Adobe Express. The goal of the add-on is to streamline the process of creating and optimizing engaging video content for TikTok.

Here’s what the TikTok Creative Assistant looks like in Adobe Express 👇

Users can leverage Adobe Express's extensive library of templates, Adobe Stock assets, dedicated video editor, AI-driven insights, and scripting support from TikTok's Creative Assistant.

Here are examples of what you can use the add-on for:

Here are some examples of prompts you can ask the assistant:

To access the TikTok Creative Assistant, sign in to Adobe Express, create a new project, go to the “Add-on” section, and add the TikTok Creative Assistant add-on.

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In Adobe Illustrator, you can now format your text using keyboard shortcuts (like you can in a word document)!

This means you can now apply bold and italic styles to your fonts and underline without moving your mouse.

Here are the keyboard shortcuts:

In addition to this, Adobe Illustrator introduced a new update to the “Retype” tool.

For those who don’t know, the “Retype” tool allows you to turn any rasterized (un-editable) text in an image into live (editable) text directly in Adobe Illustrator.

The tool now has two distinct settings: Match Font and Edit Text.

The Retype tool will show you ten matching (or similar) fonts, ordered by similarity to the original selected font.

In Photoshop, you can now save an adjustment (e.g., Vibrance, Hue/Saturation, Levels) or group of adjustments as a custom Adjustment Preset for future use.

Imagine photo filters and presets… but for Photoshop.

With this new feature release, you’re also able to:

This is superrrr helpful if you want to save time making the same adjustments, want to share presets with friends, or have an audience and want to sell your presets (like people sell Lightroom presets!).