Design Thursday #70
A weekly recap of everything you need to know about tools, events, guidelines and design in general.
Recraft MCP
Recraft now supports MCP, which means you can generate images from different tools. For example, you’re working on a website in Cursor and need an additional image that fits your brand style. Just ask Recraft within Cursor, and you’ll receive it without leaving your code editor. Or want to complete an intricate agent flow in Claude, and one of the steps is generating or editing an image? Again, do it without leaving Claude via Recraft MCP.
Midjourney TV
This is a new website by Midjourney to highlight community-created videos. If you go to the site, it will automatically show you videos based on your device’s aspect ratio so they’re fullscreen while still showing the complete video. You can also check out their Youtube livestream.
Photoshop Harmonize
A brand new Photoshop feature is now available in beta. Harmonize will help you match an object’s style to the environment. You just drag and drop an image onto an existing image, click Harmonize, and it will automatically adjust the colors, lighting, shadows, and visual tone to fit the rest of the image. Making it far easier to create realistic compositions.
Next to that, there is also a beta version of Generative Upscale, an improved remove tool, and a project for better file organization.
Read all about Photoshops latest features
Comments in Jitter
It’s now easier to give feedback on your motion design in Jitter as it received a new comments feature. Similar to other tools, you can select the Comments toolbar item and leave a comment. But what is great in Jitter is that you can scrub the timeline to place your comment at the exact time you want. This should help give more precise feedback on an animation.
Read more about Comments in Jitter
Libraries in Rive
A new Early Access feature was added in Rive, Libraries. As the name suggests, you can create a library that can be reused across files. Because of this, nested artboards are now renamed to components.
Learn more about Libraries in Rive
Framer Context Menu API
Plugin development got better again in Framer with a new Context Menu API. This allows you to build native-feeling context menus in your plugin so it feels right at home in the Framer interface.
Learn more about Context Menu API
New FigJam toolbar
FigJam’s toolbar got a design update to make it cleaner and easier to find the tools you are looking for. That’s the update, as simple as that.
Updates to Variable Stroke
Figma Draw recently added the option to create variable strokes for a more hand-drawn look. Now it has received some first updates to make it easier to work with them.
You can now select a point to enter a numeric value for more precise editing. Pressing the tab key on your keyboard will automatically bring you to the next point, holding CTRL will temporarily disable pixel-snapping, and custom profiles will now show a preview in the sidebar menu.
Release Notes #5
Figma will host a new release notes later today to show off all the new features released recently.
