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Video · Design with Canva

How Claude Fits Into a Real Canva Content Workflow

Ronny Hermosa tests Claude Cowork with Canva on a real campaign and shows where AI can genuinely speed up design, copy, and scheduling work.

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Googlebook bets on premium materials, Android integration and a new laptop identity

Google’s new laptop category pairs Gemini features with premium hardware, a glowbar design cue and Android-ecosystem links. The real test will be whether the concept feels coherent when devices arrive in fall 2026.

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Video · Dansky

Photoshop’s New Light Adjustment Layer Makes Tonal Editing Easier to Reach

Dansky’s quick look at Photoshop’s latest update shows how the new Light adjustment layer brings familiar Camera Raw-style controls into a simpler, more approachable workflow.

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Video · Dansky

Why a Logo Can Look Right in Black and White but Wrong When Reversed

Dansky shows a small Illustrator habit that can make a logo read more consistently across dark and light backgrounds: stop trusting the copy-paste version and fix the optical spacing by hand.

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Video · Design with Canva

Why Canva Is Building Its AI Advantage After the First Draft

Ronnie Hermosa argues that Canva’s smartest move is not trying to out-model ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini. It is becoming the place where AI drafts are edited, branded, and published.

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Video · Premiere Gal

How Adobe Firefly’s Generate Video Fits Asset-Based Animation Workflows

Premiere Gal’s demo shows how Firefly’s updated Generate Video workflow now fits cleaner into real creator production: start with a design, set output options, and generate motion without leaving Adobe’s ecosystem.

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Photoshop’s New AI Tools Are More Interesting When They Give Creators More Control

Adobe’s latest Photoshop updates combine prompt-based editing with masks, markup, non-destructive lighting controls, and a dedicated AI-assisted workspace. The important shift is that AI is being pulled closer to the editor’s existing judgment.

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Adobe Firefly Is Expanding Beyond Images Into a Full Creative AI Studio

Adobe Firefly now brings image, video, music, speech, sound effects, and third-party models into one creative AI environment. The useful question is whether that reduces tool switching without creating a messier workflow.

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Framer’s Agent Can Now Build Editable 3D Effects—That Changes the AI Design Tradeoff

Framer Agents can now work with 3D transforms like perspective, depth and rotate while keeping the result editable on the canvas.

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Figma’s Generative Plugins Point to a More Custom Future for Design Tools

Figma is letting designers build and share generative plugins and shaders directly on the canvas. The bigger idea is that creative software is becoming more programmable by the people using it.

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Canva’s 100+ Visual Suite Updates Are About Keeping More Work in One File

Canva says it has shipped more than 100 updates across Docs, Sheets, Whiteboards, Presentations, Websites, and Video. The strategic play is clear: reduce how often teams need to leave the Visual Suite to finish a project.

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Video · Pixel & Bracket

How to Vectorize Images in Illustrator Without Guessing at the Settings

Pixel & Bracket shows why Illustrator’s Image Trace is useful as a starting point, not a one-click cure-all—and which adjustments matter most.

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Video · Premiere Gal

How Premiere Beta’s Color Mode Lets Editors Grade One Object Without Touching the Rest

Premiere Gal’s tutorial shows a cleaner way to handle selective grading: use clip-level color shift for broad corrections, then switch to object masking and tracking when one element needs its own look.

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