The 3 Best AI Adobe InDesign Updates for 2025: A Step-by-Step Guide

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:

1. Increace the size of the frame (not the image).

2. Go to Window>Text to image and click Generate

3. 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:

1. Place an image in a frame.

2. Check the Content-Aware Fit option in the Properties panel.

3. 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:

1. Window>Text to image

2. Create a frame the size that you want the image.

3. Insert a promt to describe the image you require.

4. 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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