# Adobe's AI experiments let you explore photos and build characters

> Adobe showcases four experimental AI tools that could reshape how creators work with images, video, audio and editing.
- Title: Adobe's AI experiments let you explore photos and build…
- Summary: Adobe showcases four experimental AI tools that could reshape how creators work with images, video, audio and editing.
- Keywords: adobe, adobe max, project screen test, project sight span, project sound bender, project rinse repeat, ai video, ai audio, photo editing, generative ai, creative tools, The Verge
- Source: The Verge — https://theverge.com/tech/1031505/adobe-max-2026-sneaks-experiments-ai
- Author: Jess Weatherbed
- Published: 2026-11-11T14:00:00+00:00
- Read time: 2 min
- Topics: adobe, adobe max, project screen test, project sight span, project sound bender, project rinse repeat, ai video, ai audio, photo editing, generative ai, creative tools, technology
## Adobe Max showcases four experimental AI tools
Adobe announced four new experimental features at its annual Max conference that transform how creators work with images, video, audio and photo editing.
## Project Screen Test builds AI characters through conversation
Project Screen Test lets creators talk to AI-generated characters in an audition-like environment to shape their personality, backstory, temperament, goals, flaws, fears and movement quirks.
## Screen Test starts with base personality traits
You begin by describing base personality traits such as anxious, shy, awkward, and selecting or describing a voice for the character to use.
## Screen Test generates animated tests of characters
Once you are happy with the character, the tool generates animated screen tests by describing an environment or scenario you want to put them in.
## Project Sight Span turns photos into 3D spaces
Project Sight Span transforms photographs into navigable 3D environments where you can reposition and see what lies outside the original frame while preserving artistic styles.
## Sight Span works with any flat image
The tool works with photos, paintings and illustrations, preserving and replicating artistic styles even when repositioning tattoos and facial features in photographs.
## Project Sound Bender customizes audio like a color wheel
Project Sound Bender is an AI audio mixing feature that lets you customize sound effects by dragging your cursor around a canvas, with each corner assigned a relevant AI-generated sound.
## Sound Bender generates and syncs audio to video
You upload a video clip and describe desired audio in a text prompt such as bubbling sci-fi cauldron noises, and Sound Bender generates and automatically syncs sound effects to the video.
## Project Rinse Repeat copies edits across subjects
Project Rinse Repeat lets you copy edits and automatically apply them to other objects or people in the same photo, such as airbrush touchups or shadows on products.
## These are tech previews, not guaranteed releases
These sneaks are tech previews that might eventually become tools for Adobe's Creative Cloud apps or Firefly platform, but there is no guarantee they will launch officially.
## AI tools could replace traditional creative workflows
Adobe research scientist Gautham Mysore told The Verge that intuitive AI interactions give creatives more precise control, but the tools could eventually replace stock libraries and traditional workflows.

> Making these interactions more intuitive is also about giving experienced creatives more precise control.
## Key takeaway

Adobe unveiled four experimental AI tools at Max 2026 that let creators explore photos as 3D scenes, develop AI characters through conversation, mix audio intuitively, and copy edits across multiple subjects.