January 2026 Release

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Luuk de Bruin

This January Release of Motion Studio lands with major color improvements and new studio editing.

⩥ Color: The Studio
Harness two new editing systems to design color palettes and swatches. Use the Designer to work with color theory and harmony, or use the Matrix to test contrast ratio quality.



⩥ Color: The Designer
Use the color wheel and value sliders to edit, customize, and generate endless swatches. Various color theory harmony types are available to bulk edit and apply changes.



⩥ Color: The Matrix
Use the new Matrix editing system to visualize WCAG 2.1 (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) standards for color palette design. Bulk compare, edit and filter color swatches.



⩥ AAA & AA: Rating
Evaluate and filter ratings for the WCAG 2.1 Success Criterion for contrast quality and accessibility. View the Matrix to grade and rationalize swatch pairings and fix tedious and slow 1:1 swatch comparisons.



⩥ Shapes: Extra
Interesting and expanded basic vectors are live in the Shapes library. Use the new "modern basic" library of patterns swirls, smudges, stars, wiggles, zaps and more.



⩥ Switchboard: Boost
Serious media rendering improvements landed to Switchboard; the non-destructive editing system for Adobe Premiere. Switchboard is an upgraded and "fixed" version of the stock Adobe Multi-Camera editing system. Toggle from standard timeline editing, or Switchboard's "technical director" style automatic multi-track editing view.

⩥ Pro-Mod: Cooking
Development continues for Pro-Mod, a sleek application modification system. Pro-Mod customizes secret and hidden Adobe app functionality, hacks performance + performance, can modify menus + icons and more. *dev note — the scope 10x'd for us with unexpected tricky file structures, Pro-Mod should drop in February.

⩥ User Hall-of-Fame
Special thanks for the users below for helping improve Motion Studio with great suggestions on Futures:

🏅 Michael Vitulli — [requested more Color tools and abilities and inspired the new WCAG matrix and designer]