Adobe has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Topaz Labs, a Dallas-based AI company that specializes in video and image enhancement models.
Topaz Video
Topaz Labs’ lineup includes Topaz Video, an AI-powered desktop app for Windows and Mac. It handles upscaling, sharpening, stabilization and denoising. A slow-motion mode generates interpolated frames for smoother movement.
Rendering happens locally, so your files never leave your computer. If you’d rather spare your hardware, you can buy Cloud Credits and render on Topaz Labs’ servers instead.
Other Topaz products
Topaz Photo brings the same kind of enhancements to still images. You can fix focus problems, strip out noise and pull back detail.
For enlarging stills, there’s a dedicated app called Topaz Gigapixel. It uses AI to blow images up to 6x their size while holding onto detail and staying faithful to the original.
Topaz has also rolled out a set of web-based apps for photo and video. One of them, Premiere Panel, puts the company’s AI enhancements right inside Adobe Premiere.
David Wadhwani, president of Creativity & Productivity Business at Adobe, said “Adobe Firefly, Firefly Services and Creative Cloud offer the industry’s best creative tooling and top AI models for creators and brands, and we’re excited to build on the strong demand for these products with Topaz Labs.” He added, “Creators are creating more content by mixing captured and generated images and video, and with Topaz Labs we will give every creator the quality and control to easily produce that content at higher quality and resolution.”
“Building technology to make images and videos look their absolute best has been our life’s work for more than twenty years,” said Eric Yang, CEO of Topaz Labs. “We’ve always believed that technology should serve human creativity rather than replace it — and so has Adobe. Together, we believe we can dramatically expand what’s possible for filmmakers and creators everywhere.”
What happens next?
Adobe expects to close the deal in the second half of 2026. Once it does, new AI enhancement models will flow into Adobe Firefly, Firefly Services and the Creative Cloud apps.
Topaz Labs’ Emmy Award-winning technology will be woven across Adobe’s creative AI portfolio. That includes its proprietary Neurostream tech, which lets large, complex AI models run locally on consumer devices. Topaz Labs products won’t disappear, though. They’ll stay available as standalone offerings through the company’s website alongside the Adobe integration.
What we think
Topaz Labs has led the field in AI enhancement software for photo and video creatives. Some of its products lean on generative AI, but the core job is recovering and improving footage you already shot.
This is a smart buy for Adobe. Creative Cloud users stand to gain some of the best tools around for fixing focus, upscaling, denoising and turning standard-speed video into smooth slow motion.
It’s also reassuring that existing Topaz Labs customers will keep getting support alongside the Adobe integrations. And subscribers who already pay for both apps could end up saving money down the line.
