🌟 Spark Creativity this Year!
Your ideas spark what’s next; let’s build boldly together. We’re kicking off the year with a blend of powerful additions and subtle enhancements designed to make everyday creation smoother and more flexible.
Adobe Express New Features
- 🎨 Generate Presentations (Adobe Express × Acrobat): Create presentations faster than ever! Start in Express or Acrobat, generate slides with Acrobat AI, then refine and present seamlessly in Express.
- ✂️ Crop Pages: Set precise crop dimensions or fit the crop to content. Resize without shifting any variable content.
- 📁 Replace From Your Stuff: Swap elements from anywhere in Your Stuff, including Files, Uploads, Projects, Libraries, and Favorites.
- 🖼️ Enhanced Clipped Image Fidelity: Clipped images now import and export in full quality—preserving vector masks for accurate reproduction, keeping masked PDF content fully editable, and giving users the flexibility to swap or remove masks as needed.
- 🔠 Uppercase Text Formatting: Transform any text into bold, attention‑grabbing uppercase in just one click.
- 🔡 Dynamic Text: Lowercase and Mixed Case Support: More flexibility in text layouts with uppercase, lowercase, or mixed case.
- 🎨 Copy & Paste Style (New Painting Brush Tool): Use the new paintbrush icon in the Edit Toolbar to copy text styling and apply it instantly to any other text box.
- 🚀 Text Position Support for Linear Motion Animation: Bungee, Slide, Rise, and Drift now animate by character, word, line, or full element. Start/End Outside Page is now allowed in order to bring your text dynamically onto the page.
- 📤 Share Menu Redesign: A cleaner, better‑organized menu that makes it easier for users to quickly find the export option they need.
- 🔗 Hyperlink and Rewrite Tools Relocated: These tools now live in the Properties Inspector for a cleaner, more streamlined editing experience.
‼️ IMPORTANT REMINDER ‼️
Migrate Templates from Brands to Projects Deadline: February 28, 2026. Templates not moved will be unusable after this date. Please reference the HelpX page here for further instructions
💡 Have ideas or waiting for a feature release? Visit our Adobe Express UserVoice to follow existing requests or submit your own.
Express Quick Tip
Want to download only a few pages from a multi‑page project? Switch to View All, select the pages you need, and download them all at once—a simple, time‑saving trick!
New Add-Ons
🚀 Power up Adobe Express with integrations from trusted partners, built to work better together.
🆓 Layer Manager: Whether you’re working on detailed client projects or personal creative work, this add-on saves time, reduces clutter, and makes editing more efficient. 🆓 Feat Paper: Instantly generate trackable links and QR codes for designs and documents. Share your work faster and smarter, while gaining valuable insights from every view. 🛍️ Shopify Connector: Bring your store’s media directly into your creative workflow. Instantly browse images, files, and collections stored in your Shopify account without leaving Adobe Express. Update product images in your Shopify store directly from Adobe Express. 1 Year free provided by Adobe Fund Design Program 🆓 PageProof: Get feedback and approvals from the right people in the right order, quickly and efficiently, using the advanced proofing features like workflows, checklists, audit, and smart compare. Bring feedback back into Adobe Express and easily send out new versions.
2026 Trends Reports
A look at the cultural and design forces shaping creative work in 2026.
The Adobe Creative Trends Report 2026, from Adobe Business, examines the cultural, technological, and behavioral shifts influencing how organizations communicate and create. Drawing insights across industries, it helps leaders and teams understand where audience expectations are headed and how creative strategy can remain relevant, credible, and human in a rapidly changing landscape.
The Adobe Express Design Trends Report 2026 brings those same forces into focus through practical design direction. It highlights emerging visual styles, layout patterns, and content approaches that creators can apply immediately in everyday work. Read together, the two reports connect strategic signals with real-world execution.
Express Blog Highlight
Connection is becoming a strategic design requirement, not just an aesthetic choice.
Spark genuine human connection with Connectioneering
The Connectioneering microtrend explores how organizations are using design to create clarity, trust, and relevance in an increasingly fragmented communications landscape. Rather than relying on novelty or visual excess, this approach focuses on shared cues, emotional intelligence, and human-centered storytelling to help messages land more effectively. For business and enterprise teams, the article offers practical insight into how design choices can strengthen audience connection, improve engagement, and support clearer communication across channels.
Mark Your Calendars!
🆓 A Leader's Playbook for Scalable, On-Brand Content |📍Virtual: 02/11 | 10 AM PT; 1 PM ET: Learn how Lumen is layering Adobe Express into their workflows to successfully activate AI across their organization. They’ll share a practical 3-step approach to expand production, improve team agility, and generate on-brand assets faster.
🆓 Create Now: Join your local design community for an inspiring evening of hands-on creativity as Adobe pros demo the latest in Adobe Express, Firefly, and more. Connect with creators, discover new ways to collaborate, and elevate your process while enjoying appetizers, drinks, and a chance to win a Creative Cloud membership.
- 📍Phoenix, AZ: 02/11 | 7:30 to 10:30 PM
- 📍Austin, TX: 02/12 | 6:30 to 9 PM
- 📍Tampa, FL: 02/26 | 5:30 to 8:15 PM
- 📍Boston, MA: 03/19 | 5:30 to 8 PM
- 📍San Francisco, CA: 06/03 | 8:30 to 11 PM
Discover our on‑demand webinars and learn at your own pace.
Adobe Summit
The Digital Experience Conference
Discover what's next in marketing, creativity, and AI.
April 20 to 22 | Las Vegas and online April 19 | Pre-conference Unlock the power of Adobe’s AI-native platform to create content at scale, orchestrate personalized experiences, and accelerate business growth. Get exclusive insights from global leaders and experts, plus hands-on experience with the latest Adobe solutions.
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