Adobe wants AI agents working directly inside Photoshop and Premiere

Adobe wants external AI agents to make changes directly to Photoshop and Premiere projects, producing project files creators can continue editing themselves. At Adobe MAX, the company previewed the integration and said it plans to launch a closed beta in early 2027.

In Miami Beach, Adobe demonstrated how an external AI assistant can send commands to its design and editing apps through the Model Context Protocol, or MCP. The protocol lets assistants communicate with other software. Adobe says the first integrations will cover Photoshop and Premiere, as well as Illustrator and After Effects.

According to Adobe’s Creative Cloud announcement, an assistant can modify project files on a user’s computer. The result could be editable Photoshop layers, Illustrator vectors, Premiere edits, or After Effects compositions. Designers can then adjust individual layers, while video editors can fine-tune changes on the timeline.

Adobe also outlined a task that spans several apps. An assistant could pull a brief from Google Docs, work on it in Creative Cloud, then share the result via Slack. That would also require the assistant to connect to those other services. TechCrunch cites ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini as examples of assistants that could access Adobe features through these kinds of connections.

External assistant integrations are on a different timeline from Adobe’s own Creative Agent. Adobe is now making its assistant available in beta in apps including Premiere, Illustrator, InDesign, and After Effects. In Photoshop, the assistant is available in the app’s separate beta version.

Adobe points to Premiere as an example of what its assistant can do. Editors can ask it to apply the same effect to multiple clips or adjust color and lighting across a whole sequence. It can also track a masked subject as it moves through a shot. For color correction, for instance, the assistant could make an initial adjustment across several clips, which the editor can then refine shot by shot.

Adobe is also adding new tools for manual and AI-powered editing. One example is Relight in Photoshop, which lets creators adjust an image’s lighting. Premiere is getting Color Mode, a dedicated workspace for color correction. Both features are now generally available. Adobe is offering real-time collaboration on the same InDesign document in beta.

Adobe is also expanding its own assistant in Firefly. Plan Mode lets users review, edit, and approve the assistant’s proposal before it starts a task. A model picker then lets users choose an AI model themselves or leave the decision to Firefly.

Firefly has long offered image models from companies including OpenAI and Google. Creators can also generate AI video in Firefly and continue editing it in Creative Cloud. With Firefly Graph, now available in beta, Adobe also wants creators to build and reuse their own editing workflows. That could be useful, for example, to teams that repeatedly process similar assets in the same order.

Adobe also showed assistants that can handle recurring tasks in the background, such as organizing new assets or preparing versions for different publishing channels. The feature is still in preview.