Adobe InDesign’s 2025 updates bring powerful new tools to help designers work smarter, faster, and more creatively. From AI-powered features to enhanced workflows, here’s a quick guide to the top updates and how to use them.
1. Generative Expand: Fill Your Layouts Instantly
Quickly extend or fill empty spaces in your design with AI-generated content that matches your layout.
How to Use It:
Increace the size of the frame (not the image).
Go to Window>Text to image and click Generate
No need to add a prompt, just let it do its magic and choose from the various options it gives you!
Why It’s Great: Perfect for creating seamless page designs without additional assets.
2. Enhanced Content-Aware Fit: Smarter Image Placement
InDesign’s AI now adjusts image crops more intelligently, ensuring key elements stay in focus.
How to Use It:
Place an image in a frame.
Check the Content-Aware Fit option in the Properties panel.
InDesign automatically adjusts the image to fit perfectly.
Why It’s Great: Helps to place the image where the subject is the main focus.
3. Text-to-IMAGE
Turn plain text into dynamic design elements with AI-generated Images directly in InDesign.
How to Use It:
Window>Text to image
Create a frame the size that you want the image.
Insert a promt to describe the image you require.
Choose from the options or ask InDesign to generate more.
Why It’s Great: Effortlessly create custom images that are royalty free!
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