Monday, 15th September 2025

The Weekly Creative

A Quick, No-Fluff update from Glyn Dewis that Keeps your Creativity Current

🎨 Photoshop & Lightroom Updates

• Photoshop v26.10 (desktop)​
  New Star tool for creating adjustable star shapes with custom points and radii. Useful for graphic accents and badges.
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• Photoshop Beta​
  ​Generative Upscale: enlarge images up to 4× with AI-powered clarity improvement.
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  ​Projects: organize and collaborate on assets more efficiently.
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  ​Harmonize: add objects into scenes that match lighting and tone.
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• Lightroom Classic 14.5 / Lightroom desktop and mobile​
  Copy/Sync checkbox presets so you can save your usual subsets of settings, plus performance and stability improvements including faster preview generation.
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• Performance Tweaks & Bug Fixes: smoother preview generation, stability improvements across platforms. Adobe Help Center​
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Release notes:
Adobe Photoshop → https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/whats-new.html​
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Adobe Lightroom Classic → helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-classic/help/whats-new.html​

📱 Mobile Apps (iPhone + Android where available)

• Google Photos adds creative AI remixes and simple still-to-video animations in the “Create” tab. Nice for quick social assets from existing shots.

🤖 AI in Creativity

• Adobe Firefly Mobile App Released​
  Firefly is now available as a dedicated mobile app on iOS and Android. It brings features including Generative Fill, Generative Expand, Text-to-Image, Text-to-Video, and Image-to-Video. Creations sync with Creative Cloud for cross-device work.
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• Google Gemini 2.5 Flash (Nano Banana) Image Model Integration​
  The new Gemini 2.5 Flash Image model is now available in Firefly’s Text-to-Image module and Firefly Boards, as well as Adobe Express. Users can get 20 free generations or unlimited access with paid plans.
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• Envato AI Video month​
  Unlimited generations on platforms like Veo 3 and Kling through 30th Sep 2025 across all subscription tiers. Handy window for testing text-to-video and speech-to-video ideas.
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• Midjourney​
  A leading text-to-image model known for expressive results. Recently in the news due to a Warner Bros. lawsuit over training data related to the use of iconic characters like Batman and Bugs Bunny as training data.
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• fal.ai​
  A platform that hosts and serves 600+ production-ready image, video, audio, and 3D models behind simple APIs. Recent notes: Veo 3 available via fal’s API, new LTXV 0.9.8 video models with faster inference, Mirelo SFX integration for auto sound-design, and fresh model listings such as Seedream 4.0 Edit. Useful if you want reliable access to top models without managing GPUs.
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• Seedream 4.0 (ByteDance)​
  Image generation and editing in one model. Very fast 2K output, supports multiple reference images for consistency across a series, and improved text-guided edits. Good for branded sets or consistent character work.

💡 Tip of the Week

Batch faster in Lightroom: create a Copy/Sync checkbox preset that matches your usual workflow, for example “Tone + Color only”. Then one click applies your essentials across a set without unwanted local masks.

🥇 Community Highlight

This week I want to shine a light on some great conversations happening in the Photography Masterclass Community:

🏆 Candice Chapman for her post "How do you Educate Yourself" which was highlighted for being thought provoking, motivating and by the comments it generated ... itself, educational.

🏆 EVERYONE who replied in the comment by Jackie Meredith in the Supercar Retouch Post. Initially highlighted were Jean-Francois Leger , Mike Erickson and Anthony Crothers for their warm, supportive and encouraging replies, however so many of you too also replied in a similar way.

Written by Glyn Dewis · Weekly Creative
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