Adobe previewed ten experimental research projects at its Adobe MAX Sneaks 2026 showcase, hosted by actor Terry Crews, and five of them stand out as tools that could reshape everyday creative work in Photoshop and Premiere. The Sneaks are research previews rather than finished features, but the ones that do ship tend to define how Adobe software feels two years later.
The first standout is Project Deep Brush, which gives the humble brush a sense of what lies beneath it. Until now, a brush has placed pixels on a canvas exactly as instructed, without knowing anything about the image underneath. Deep Brush changes that by using artificial intelligence to understand the contours, colours and light in an image, so the brush behaves according to all of that information.
It is one of two Sneaks that visitors can already try at the new Adobe Lab Playground, which makes it one of the most concrete demonstrations of the year. For illustrators and retouchers, a brush that respects edges and lighting on its own could remove hours of careful manual work.
Project Rinse Repeat tackles a frustration every photo editor knows well. You change one thing in a picture, love the result, and then face the chore of replicating that change across the entire image. Rinse Repeat remembers the changes made to one area and applies them to another, tailoring them to the new location.
The important detail is that the changes are replicated using native Photoshop features, which means the results stay editable rather than being baked into the pixels. It is the kind of quiet workflow improvement that saves far more time than it first appears to.
Project Sight Span takes a single photograph and turns it into a space to walk around in. The tool converts one image into an environment that can be explored from different viewpoints, and it can create images that fall outside the initial frame of the picture.
For a photographer who captured the moment but not the composition, that is a striking idea. The frame of a photograph has always been a fixed boundary, and Sight Span treats it as a starting point instead.
Project Link Up understands a gesture as an intent. In the demonstration, dragging a car over to an image of a parking space made the car change its point of view, scale and styling to match the context, producing editable vector art. The gesture removes a whole set of manual operations, including rotating, scaling and restyling, while the output stays editable.
Project Scene Sweep addresses video editing, where getting the perfect shot once often means repeating the same work for every other cut and angle of a scene. Scene Sweep lets an editor decide on one shot and carry that decision across the sequence, because the tool knows who is in the scene and what is going on, rather than treating every clip like a stranger. Consistency like that equals saved editing time, and it removes one of the biggest time wasters in video post-production.
Not every Sneak becomes a shipping feature, and Adobe is clear that these are research previews. But with ten projects on stage and five this strong, the next two years of creative software are already taking shape.
Why it matters
For marketers and creative professionals, these previews signal upcoming workflow changes in industry-standard tools. Project Deep Brush could reduce manual retouching time, while Rinse Repeat offers a non-destructive way to apply edits across multiple images. Sight Span and Link Up introduce new ways to manipulate visual content, and Scene Sweep promises consistency in video editing projects. While shipping timelines remain uncertain, the demonstrated capabilities suggest future updates to Photoshop and Premiere may incorporate similar AI-assisted features, potentially altering daily creative processes for design and video teams.
Adobe has previewed ten experimental research projects at its Adobe MAX Sneaks 2026 showcase, hosted by actor Terry Crews, and five of them stand out as tools that could reshape everyday creative work in Photoshop and Premiere. The Sneaks are research previews rather than finished features, but the ones that do ship tend to define how Adobe software feels two years later.
The first standout is Project Deep Brush, which gives the humble brush a sense of what lies beneath it. Until now, a brush has placed pixels on a canvas exactly as instructed, without knowing anything about the image underneath. Deep Brush changes that by using artificial intelligence to understand the contours, colours and light in an image, so the brush behaves according to all of that information.
It is one of two Sneaks that visitors can already try at the new Adobe Lab Playground, which makes it one of the most concrete demonstrations of the year. For illustrators and retouchers, a brush that respects edges and lighting on its own could remove hours of careful manual work.
Project Rinse Repeat tackles a frustration every photo editor knows well. You change one thing in a picture, love the result, and then face the chore of replicating that change across the entire image. Rinse Repeat remembers the changes made to one area and applies them to another, tailoring them to the new location.
The important detail is that the changes are replicated using native Photoshop features, which means the results stay editable rather than being baked into the pixels. It is the kind of quiet workflow improvement that saves far more time than it first appears to.
Project Sight Span takes a single photograph and turns it into a space to walk around in. The tool converts one image into an environment that can be explored from different viewpoints, and it can create images that fall outside the initial frame of the picture.
For a photographer who captured the moment but not the composition, that is a striking idea. The frame of a photograph has always been a fixed boundary, and Sight Span treats it as a starting point instead.
Project Link Up understands a gesture as an intent. In the demonstration, dragging a car over to an image of a parking space made the car change its point of view, scale and styling to match the context, producing editable vector art. The gesture removes a whole set of manual operations, including rotating, scaling and restyling, while the output stays editable.
Project Scene Sweep addresses video editing, where getting the perfect shot once often means repeating the same work for every other cut and angle of a scene. Scene Sweep lets an editor decide on one shot and carry that decision across the sequence, because the tool knows who is in the scene and what is going on, rather than treating every clip like a stranger. Consistency like that equals saved editing time, and it removes one of the biggest time wasters in video post-production.
Not every Sneak becomes a shipping feature, and Adobe is clear that these are research previews. But with ten projects on stage and five this strong, the next two years of creative software are already taking shape.
An experimental Adobe tool previewed at Adobe MAX Sneaks 2026 that uses artificial intelligence to understand the contours, colours and light in an image, so the brush behaves according to that information. It is one of two Sneaks that visitors can already try at the new Adobe Lab Playground.
It remembers the changes made to one area of a picture and applies them to another, tailoring them to the new location. The changes are replicated using native Photoshop features, so the results stay editable rather than being baked into the pixels.
Are the Sneaks tools available in Photoshop and Premiere now? No. The Sneaks are research previews rather than finished features, and not every Sneak becomes a shipping feature. But the ones that do ship tend to define how Adobe software feels two years later.
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