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TOP STORY
📦️ Illustrator releases “Generate Vectors”

This week, Adobe released a new version of Illustrator, which is now powered by the latest Adobe Firefly Vector Model.

This new update enables users to generate and modify vectors, shapes, patterns, and graphics with natural language prompts.

Here’s what was released 👇️ 

1) Generative Shape Fill 🪣 

Generative Shape Fill allows you to fill shapes with detailed, customizable vector graphics tailored to their style.

You can later adjust the shape strength, detail, colors, or reference styles from existing artwork, with editable outputs that scale without quality loss.

2) Text-to-Pattern 🔁 

Describe a pattern, like “floral geometric grid,” to generate multiple variations, with sample prompts for inspiration.

You can also specify colors, adjust density, or apply effects, saving patterns as swatches for future use.

3) Text-to-Vector Graphic 🖼️ 

Text to Vector Graphic is a new feature that enables the rapid creation of detailed, editable vector graphics from text prompts.

With this new feature, you can generate scenes, subjects, or icons, like “futuristic cityscape” or “flat-style avocado icon,” with multiple variations.

Plus, you can choose variations of the vector generations via the Properties panel, refine them with Illustrator tools, and manage linked variations for iterative design, with detail and style adjustments.

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DESIGN
🔥 Figma releases “Code Layers”

Figma announced a new “Code Layers” feature (which is set to launch soon for Figma Sites) that allows designers and developers to add dynamic animations and interactive elements to their sites with custom code.

With Code Layers, you can now:

• Integrate with Figma Make: Pair with Figma Make’s AI prompt-to-code feature to generate animations or interactions from text prompts, like “add a hover effect to this button,” for rapid prototyping.

• Embed custom code: Attach JavaScript, CSS, or HTML to specific layers to create inline animations, interactive buttons, or dynamic effects, all within Figma’s canvas.

• Preview interactions live: Test code-driven animations and interactions in real-time, ensuring seamless integration with Figma Sites’ responsive templates and breakpoints.

Code Layers is set to roll out to Figma Sites (beta) users on Organization and Enterprise plans, with potential availability for Professional plans.

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SOUND DESIGN
🔉 ElevenLabs releases “SB-1 Infinite Soundboard”

This week, ElevenLabs released the “SB-1 Infinite Soundboard,” a tool that lets users generate any sound effect from text prompts.

This free tool is perfect for live streamers, podcasters, and gamers, offering unlimited creativity without relying on pre-existing MP3 libraries.

With the SB-1 Infinite Soundboard, you can:

• Generate custom sound effects: Describe any sound, like “rain hitting a tent roof” or “space explosion,” and the AI model produces multiple variations for selection, all from scratch.

• Create and save presets: Start with four presets (Ambient, Drum Machine, Movie Sounds, and Animal Signs) and build custom ones, like a video game preset with “High Score” announcements or empty slot sounds.

• Integrate with live streaming & podcasts: Drop generated sounds into the soundboard for real-time triggers, loop effects for ambient backgrounds, or use as a drum machine for interactive shows.

• Share and collaborate: Save and share presets directly to social media.

The tool is available for free, but an ElevenLabs account is required for saving and sharing.

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OTHER STORIES
Everything else in creative news 🗞️ 

Bezi, an AI tool designed specifically for game engines, is now publicly available.

Adobe Illustrator now allows you to enter color names in the color picker to choose a color.

Descript’s AI-co editor has an improved ability to search for stock media, can now change layer properties (relative to the current properties), is better at rewriting and improving scripts, is better at replacing recorded text with an AI speaker, and is more reliable when adding and changing chapter markers.

Gamma revealed that 1 billion images have now been created on the platform.

Higgsfield AI released “Higgsfield Ads,” allowing you to turn one product photo into a studio ad in seconds.

Luma AI’s “Reframe” feature is now available to all subscribers.

Restream now allows users to control YouTube “Stream latency” directly in Restream.

Higgsfield AI released “Effects Pack 3,” a mind-melting pack of 8 cinematic VFX.

KREA AI released “Krea Lipsync,” allowing you to generate hyper-realistic talking videos of any character.

Gamma added 17 new themes to the platform — there are now 96 total themes to choose from.

Runway has made “Gen-4 References” available in the Runway API.

Webflow is introducing a horizontal timeline to the Interactions panel soon.

Webflow has changed “Existing Classes” to “Recent Classes” in its Style selector.

Riverside released “Animated Clips,” allowing you to turn your videos into different styles.

Webflow released a new “Develop” page in the Integrations dashboard that shows real-time engagement metrics for app developers.

Webflow now allows you to enable custom code (like animations and forms) to run in both preview and comment nodes — plus, you can review and refine content right where it lives with on-canvas CMS commenting.

Gamma has added support for “Ideogram 3,” an AI model that’s best for realistic styles and text handling.

Rive now allows you to create Lists with Data Binding.

Webflow released three powerful CMS Collection list updates: collection list component properties, curated collection lists, and increased nested collection list limits.

Weblow’s MCP now supports inline code.

Play 3.2 allows you to create & save your own interaction prefabs, includes 7 new triggers & actions, and has new code panel updates.