This week’s new tools, tutorials, and resources 👇
Adobe After Effects: How to create a fake snow effect in Adobe After Effects (Tutorial).
CMYK Emulator: Create CMYK halftone emulations with any photo or video (FREE).
Web Capture: Capture elements from the web and convert them into interactive React components, and edit manually or with AI on a canvas (FREE).
Google Sans Flex: A free, open-source font used in all Google products (FREE).
Anthropic: A free AI assistant that works directly in your browser, automating tasks and taking actions on your behalf (FREE).
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TOP STORY
🎨 OpenAI releases “ChatGPT Images”
This week, OpenAI released a new version of "ChatGPT Images," powered by its flagship "GPT Image 1.5" model, bringing 4x faster generation speeds and precise editing capabilities that finally maintain visual consistency across iterations.
The update addresses a major pain point for users: maintaining control over edits without unintended changes to lighting, composition, or facial features.
You can now access your image generations in the ChatGPT app/sidebar
With ChatGPT Images, you can now:
Follow instructions reliably: Generate or edit images that change only what you request while preserving elements like lighting, composition, and people's appearance across multiple edits.
Edit with precision: Add, subtract, combine, blend, or transpose elements without degrading the original image quality or inadvertently altering unrelated details.
Render text accurately: Handle denser and smaller text within images, making it practical for creating signs, menus, infographics, and branded materials.
Generate faster: Create images up to 4x faster than the previous model, with the ability to continue generating new images while others are still processing.
Access a dedicated Images hub: Use the new Images tab in ChatGPT (available in the sidebar or at ChatGPT Images) featuring preset filters, trending prompts, and templates.
ChatGPT Images is available now to all ChatGPT users (Plus, Pro, Team, and Free) and via the API as GPT Image 1.5, with Enterprise and Edu access coming soon.
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DESIGN
🔠 Google releases “Google Sans”
This week, Google released "Google Sans" and "Google Sans Flex" as open-source fonts, making the company's signature typeface freely available for commercial and personal use for the first time.
Previously reserved for Google products only, these fonts are now accessible to anyone under the SIL Open Font License — meaning designers can finally use the same typography that appears across Gmail, Search, and Pixel phones in their own projects without licensing fees or legal restrictions.
Google Sans is the typeface you see across Google products, while Google Sans Flex is a variable font offering granular control over six design axes: weight, width, optical size, slant, grade, and roundness.
Google Sans Flex can morph into a range of styles powered by its six variable axes.
With Google Sans Flex, you can now:
Sculpt text with precision: Adjust weight to make text feel "calm as a whisper" or "loud and rugged," and fine-tune roundness for playful or professional tones — all from a single font file.
Adapt to any screen size: The optical size axis automatically adjusts letter spacing and stroke thickness for optimal readability, whether on a smartwatch or billboard.
Create unified experiences: Use Google's brand typeface across third-party apps and websites, bridging the visual gap between Google products and your own designs for a more consistent digital environment.
Access global language support: Work with 20+ writing systems, including Arabic, Chinese, Devanagari, Greek, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, and Thai, making it one of the world's largest typeface families.
Now, third-party developers can use Google Sans Flex.
The release addresses what Google calls "fragmented typographic experiences," where users see Google Sans in Gmail, then switch to WhatsApp and encounter Roboto or device-specific fonts, creating subtle but persistent friction in the user experience.
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SOUND DESIGN
🎧 Mirage releases “Voices”
This week, Mirage (formerly known as Captions) released "Voices," a new voice cloning feature powered by their Mirage audio foundation model that preserves accents, emotional delivery, and speaking patterns that other AI voice tools typically flatten.
Unlike competitors like ElevenLabs, which often strip away regional accents and make voices sound generic or American, Mirage's model focuses on "Voice Identity Preservation" — keeping the unique characteristics that make each voice distinct.
You can listen to examples of audio generated with Mirage, here.
With Voices, you can now:
Clone your voice with accuracy: Record a brief audio sample and generate new voiceovers that maintain your accent, emotional range, and speaking style — whether you have an Indian English accent, British pronunciation, or regional dialects.
Generate expressive performances: Create dynamic audio that sounds natural rather than flat, with proper pacing, energy, and emotion that match how people actually speak in conversation.
Extend voice identity across languages: Transform cloned voices into new languages or accents while preserving the core vocal identity and performance style.
Use once, reuse forever: Clone your voice once, then generate unlimited new content over time without re-recording, making it ideal for content creators, podcasters, and video producers.
The feature is available now in Mirage Studio. Just navigate to the "Voices" page, start a new voice clone, and switch the audio model to "Mirage."
OTHER STORIES
Everything else in creative news 🗞
Google Vids avatars are now more expressive and realistic, powered by Veo 3.1
Figma released new crop improvements, including: default preserved aspect ratio, snap to edges, resize to fit, crop toolbar, and more.
Figma added support for Image 1.5 in Figma and Figma Weave (Weavy).
Figma added support for “Gemini 3 Flash” in Figma Make.
OpenAI Sora is now available in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay.
Blender 5.0.1 is out now with 132 bug fixes.
Squarespace released “Pay Links,” dedicated URLs that make it simple for businesses to collect payments online.
Framer updated “Custom Code” with a new section in your Project Settings with a single overview of all the custom code added to your pages, and you can split it up into individual snippets.
Framer released the “Create Collection API,” which lets plugins create CMS collections, immediately focus them, and continue workflows like importing data without requiring any other manual collection setup.
Runway released “Gen-4.5” to all users.
Lovable released “Connectors,” a new feature that allows you to connect to your favorite tools.
Lovable released “Gift Cards,” allowing you to gift someone a Lovable subscription.
DaVinci Resolve released v20.31 with the ability to quickly search for effects in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, improved Fusion previews for transforms and merges, as well as improved stereoscopic 3D monitoring, and more.
Spline now allows you to control the pivot of objects in the Spline 3D editor.
Riverside released “Color Adjustments,” allowing you to adjust brightness, contrast, saturation, and temperature for every track.
Riverside released a new view for your Guests in Studio — Controls, "ON AIR" tag, plus "Waiting for Host" and "Host Joining" states, are now part of a clean and simple canvas.
Midjourney released a new click-and-scroll style creator and reworked all of its dropdown settings panels in a universal sidebar.
Luma AI released “Ray 3 Modify” in Dream Machine, allowing you to edit and reimagine videos with all-new precise keyframe and character reference controls.
MagicPath released “/commands,” allowing you to create multiple design variants and flows without ever leaving the chat.
MagicPath added support for “Gemini 3 Flash.”
Suno updated “Personas” to vastly improve vocal consistency from track to track.
Replit released “a completely reimagined free experience” with free daily usage, free AI for apps, and free publishing.
Replit is now available inside ChatGPT.
Replit released “Replit Learn” with three introductory lessons.
VEED Fabric 1.0 API now supports text-to-video functionality, and picking the right tone, emotion, and accent is now faster.
v0 now allows you to use keyboard shortcuts in Design Mode.
v0 can now ask clarifying questions before it starts generating.
v0 now allows you to import your own shadcn theme as a design system in v0.
v0 now allows you to securely connect v0 to your Notion Workspace to build using your team's existing context, docs, and databases.
Rive released a new “Help Tool,” allowing you to get feature definitions by hovering over UI and pressing “H.”
Manus now allows you to edit slides created with Nano Banana Pro on Manus.
Higgsfield AI released “Cinema Studio,” a new feature that allows you to create cinema-grade AI videos with 6 professional bodies, 11 lenses, 15+ director movements, and 4K output.
Frame.io released “Access Requests,” allowing you to approve or decline access to projects.
Frame.io released “Interactive ZIPs,” allowing you to upload ZIP files containing HTML5 animations or web banners for direct playback, interactive review, commenting, and approval within the platform, just like traditional media assets.
Tella released “Music,” allowing you to pick background tracks, upload your own, and control volume for music, your microphone, and system.
Tella released a new “Import from Loom” feature, allowing you to migrate your Loom videos to Tella.
Tella released the “Tella API,” allowing you to access videos, transcripts, playlists, and more.
Tella now allows users to create, order, and sort playlists.
Tella released “Quick Mode,” allowing you to share videos really fast and copy the share link to your clipboard automatically.
ElevenLabs added support for GPT Image 1.5 in ElevenLabs Image & Video.
Paper added support for GPT Image 1.5.
Artlist added support for GPT Image 1.5.
Leonardo.Ai added support for GPT Image 1.5.
Freepik added support for GPT Image 1.5.
Higgsfield AI added support for Wan 2.6.
Freepik added support for Wan 2.6.
KREA AI added support for Wan 2.6.
Freepik added support for Flux.2 Max.
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