🪣 Adobe Illustrator releases “Generative Shape Fill”

This week’s new tools, tutorials, and resources 👇️

• Paper Animator: Create animated paper sequences from any image.

• Yandex: A search engine for high-quality images and videos.

• Thumbsup.tv: A tool for previewing how your YouTube thumbnails look on different devices before you publish a video.

• Web Interactions Gallery: A collection of unique animated elements from all over the Web.

• Kling AI: An AI photo & video generator is now available worldwide (66 free credits per day).

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TOP STORY
🪣 Adobe Illustrator releases “Generative Shape Fill”

This week, Adobe Illustrator released “Generative Shape Fill,” which allows users to fill any shape paths and vector outlines with AI.

Additionally, a new and improved “Text to Pattern” feature allows you to create unique vector patterns from a signal prompt.

With this feature, you can also edit the individual shapes in the pattern individually 👇️ 

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GRAPHIC DESIGN
🖌️ Adobe Photoshop Releases NEW “Selection Brush Tool” and “Adjustment Brush Tool”

This week, Adobe added the “Selection Brush Tool” in Photoshop, making it easier for users to select and separate objects within an image.

By simply painting over the desired area, users can create selections with various opacities and different edge feathering, resulting in a more seamless and nuanced effect.

Adobe also added the “Adjustment Brush Tool” to Photoshop after it was in beta earlier this year.

This tool allows designers to make detailed adjustments (e.g., hue/saturation, brightness, exposure) to their images by painting directly on them.

FREELANCING
💼 Fiverr Releases Updates to Help Freelancers Find Work

Fiverr introduced new products that make finding and working with freelance talent easier than ever.

• First, meet Neo, an AI agent who helps freelancers match with potential clients.

• Fiveer is also launching a profession-based catalog for those who are hiring to select freelancers based on their skills, experiences, and portfolios.

• They’re also introducing hourly rates so freelancers can be hired on an hourly basis to boost collaboration.

📰 Other news you might’ve missed:

• Notion passed 100 million users after starting in 2013.

• Runway, an AI video generator, was trained on thousands of YouTube videos without permission.

• Webflow has laid off 8% of its employees in a company restructuring.

• Suno now allows you to separate the vocals and instrumentals from songs.

• YouTube released an “Erase Song” feature allowing creators to remove copyright-claimed audio from a video without affecting the rest of the audio.

• Luma AI released “End Frame” in Luma Labs, enabling you to choose the exact frame you want to be at the end of a video.

• Jitter released audio support, allowing you to add sound effects, background music, and voiceovers to your animations.

• beehiiv now allows users to create their own custom mobile app (no code required).

• Restream now allows you to add images to your livestreams.

• Fable released a new “Glassmorphism” effect.

• Fable released a “Roughen Edges” effect.

• Lemon Squeezy, a digital products platform, was acquired by Stripe.

• Udio released v1.5 with advanced tools for creators, including stem downloads, improved audio quality, and global language support.

• Webflow released “Libraries,” allowing you to share components and variables across multiple sites in your Workspace.

• Bezi released a handful of small improvements, including live updates when a project is open in two tabs, improved hit threshold of all line-based helpers, and more.

• Senja released a new ConvertKit integration allowing users to create testimonials seamlessly.

• Fourthwall has launched several features, including a Meta and X shopping integration, product search improvements, offline video support, and more.

• Kino released its first big update and is currently 50% off.

• Mighty Networks will be adding support for 2,000 embeds and iframes in the upcoming weeks.

• X has new live-streaming rules for creators.

• Play now allows you to copy elements from Figma and paste them directly into Play.