AIpiphanies

Every year, Adobe MAX Sneaks quietly becomes the most delightful place on the internet where engineers show off ideas that make traditional creative tools look like stone tablets.

This year’s lineup didn’t disappoint. We’re talking about AI experiments that make photos live like puppets, light behave like an opinionated film director, and entire scenes transform at the suggestion of a text prompt.

Here are the highlights — and our very serious interpretations:

Project Surface Swap
Swap textures in your photo like changing socks. A wooden floor becomes marble. A blue couch becomes velvet dragon scale. It’s fun. It’s fashionable. It’s very much what you wanted when you opened Photoshop at 2 a.m.

Project Light Touch
Lighting in photography was once a sacred ritual involving reflectors, gels, and tears. Now you can just whisper at your photo, “Make it moody,” and we swear the sun obeys.

Project Frame Forward
Video editors who once scrubbed through hundreds of frames now get to whisper at one annotated frame and boom—AI spreads that change across the whole clip. It’s like telling your timeline “be better,” and it obliges.

Project Motion Map
Illustrations that used to be static springs to life almost telepathically. Bad hair days in cartoons be gone — now it just flows.

Project Sound Stager & Clean Take
If visuals are half the story, sound is the other half — and Adobe just handed you an AI engineer in your pocket. Dialogue cleanup? Noise reduction? Automated mood soundscapes? Yes, and we might cry about it later.

The real charm of Adobe Sneaks isn’t the final products — it’s the tone: playful curiosity, joyful experimentation, and projects that make you think, “Oh, this would be fun at 3:00 a.m.”

These experiments remind us that creativity isn’t some solemn ritual involving a ritual dagger and three hours of caffeine.
It’s play. It’s chaos. It’s letting technology respond to whimsy and seeing what happens.

If we look at the future of creation, it’s not a cold, calculated assembly line.
It’s a sandbox full of tools that act like marching orders to imagination — and curious humans will always find a way to dance with them.