Adobe will let the AI agents creative professionals already use work directly in Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere and After Effects. The agent will change native project files on the user’s own computer, and layers, vectors, bins and sequences will stay editable.
Adobe announced the plan on Tuesday at its MAX conference in Miami Beach. It calls the feature local MCP integrations. MCP, the Model Context Protocol, is an open standard that lets AI agents use other software. The MCP integrations arrive in private beta in early 2027.
ChatGPT, working in Photoshop
A demo video in Adobe’s MAX press kit shows ChatGPT doing the work in the Photoshop beta app. The user asked it to make versions of a DJ party poster for two more DJs. Each needed a new photo, name, city background and date.
ChatGPT opened the Photoshop file and used the photos and backgrounds already in its layers. It translated the São Paulo poster into Portuguese, then resized all three posters into two more formats. The result was nine editable artboards in the same file, after 9 minutes and 11 seconds of work.
Adobe’s own example, from a blog post by Deepa Subramaniam, is simpler: remove a logo from one campaign asset, then ask the agent to repeat the change across the rest of the campaign. People can step in at any moment and finish the work by hand.
The agent can also connect to tools such as Google Drive or Slack. It could pull a brief from Google Docs, work on it in Adobe’s apps and share the result in Slack. Adobe already offers its creative tools inside ChatGPT, and this month put its marketing agent in Claude, Gemini and Copilot.
Adobe’s own agent, in the apps now
The Adobe Creative Agent now powers an AI Assistant, in beta, inside Premiere, Illustrator, InDesign, After Effects and Frame.io. Users describe what they need and the assistant carries out multi-step tasks. Photoshop users can try it in the Photoshop beta app.
In Premiere, the agent can apply effects to every clip in a sequence and track a masked subject through a frame. It can also adjust colour and exposure across a whole sequence at once.
Adobe’s product images show the kind of requests it has in mind. One asks InDesign for 50 versions of a document with all the content replaced. Others ask After Effects to fix expression errors and Frame.io to organise a project’s files.
“Our latest Creative Cloud innovations transform our trusted creative tools into agentic, intelligent workflows that give pros the precision, control and flexibility to explore their ideas, streamline their work and stay focused on the creative decisions that make their work uniquely theirs,” said Deepa Subramaniam, vice president of product marketing for Creative Cloud at Adobe.
Adobe also gave its Firefly app an agent that plans its work before it starts.