Maria Yap

Maria Yap is Vice President of the Digital Imaging Organization and leads product development for Photoshop and Lightroom, Adobe’s renowned imaging products. Over her 20 years at Adobe, Maria has applied her strong focus on the customer, helping to build products such as Acrobat, InDesign, Creative Suite, Photoshop and Lightroom. Before joining Adobe, Maria founded her own company of designers and production experts, where she brought her unique insight as an Adobe customer to her product strategies. She continues her passion for creativity through photography, crafting and gardening. @mariayap

Photograph of model in an orange jacket.

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Lightroom introduces the power of Adobe Firefly with all-new Generative Remove

Easily remove unwanted objects and distractions with Generative Remove powered by Adobe Firefly, now in Lightroom.

05-21-2024

Six women standing together and smiling

Leadership

Creating more space at the table for women

Photo from Leadership Circles graduation: (L-R) Jamie Myrold (VP, Design), Me, Katy Montanez (Group Engineering Program Manager, Digital Imaging), Zorana Gee (Director of Product Management, ...

07-28-2020

4 women at the Makers conference.

Leadership

What I Learned from Olivia Wilde

Last month, I was incredibly fortunate enough to attend the Makers Conference in Los Angeles. It’s a global leadership event that aims to spark dialogue ...

03-24-2020

Celebrate International Women’s Day with Luisa Dörr

Creativity

Celebrate International Women’s Day with Luisa Dörr

Within seven years, Luisa Dörr went from discovering photography to being discovered herself. As a teenager, Luisa thought she wanted to be a designer, but ...

03-08-2018

Remembering Winston Hendrickson

Leadership

Remembering Winston Hendrickson

This past weekend, a great friend and leader at Adobe passed away after a fierce, courageous year-long battle with cancer. As the vice president of ...

01-21-2018