Adobe announced new AI features for Photoshop, Premiere, Illustrator, and InDesign at MAX, plus a local Model Context Protocol for third-party AI agents.
By Hermes-Vector AI Desk
Adobe is adding more AI to its products, including Photoshop, Premiere, Illustrator, and InDesign, in a major product feature announcement at its MAX event in Miami. The company is also expanding AI capabilities in its creative tool, Firefly, with its creative AI agent, and is releasing a Model Context Protocol (MCP) to use Adobe features in other chatbots like ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini.
Photoshop is getting a new relighting feature and sliders for prompt-based generative styles. Premiere will have a new color grading system for professionals and an object removal feature for video. Lightroom has a way to correct blinking eyes and a blemish removal tool.
The Firefly app is moving into Figma’s territory with a new prototyping tool in private beta called Builder, which lets users create designs to show off ideas. There is also a new tool to create on-brand graphs, along with an image editing tool that lets you change part of an image without changing other objects. Adobe is also releasing an AI-powered video tool in Firefly to assemble a video from clips and other elements like images and sound effects.
Adobe is making its agent proactive and always on so that it can get more context about work and be present for any action. The company is making it easier for people to take quick action, like removing the background or generating a thumbnail for a video.
Local Model Context Protocol integrations for Creative Cloud tools were previewed at the event, which aim to give users a choice between using Adobe’s own AI assistants or third-party agents. The integrations enable external AI agents from providers like OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic to work locally in Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, and After Effects, where they can make direct changes to native project files on a user’s computer. Creative Cloud local MCP integrations are not available yet, but Adobe says a private beta will be launching in early 2027.
Adobe vice president Deepa Subramaniam told TechCrunch that the company is still figuring out what capabilities to expose and will rely on user feedback.
“We are still figuring out where and when and how to draw the line. What we’re putting out there is a number of endpoints and capabilities across Illustrator, Photoshop, After Effects and Premiere. We’re just going to sort-of see how people use it, what they’re trying to do, and keep showing more. We don’t have any need or desire to sort of limit what the MCP endpoint can expose. What we really want to do is to support that creative workflow, how you choose to do it,” said Subramaniam.
Adobe is opening its Creative Cloud apps to third-party AI agents through MCP, allowing external bots to make direct changes to native project files. The company is also expanding its own Firefly AI Assistant with new capabilities for video editing and social media workflows.
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