Adobe is introducing chatbot-like conversational editing to its content editing programs. The new AI assistants in Photoshop and Express will have an emphasis on “conversational, agentic” experiences — meaning you can ask the chatbot to make edits, and it can independently handle them. The tools are just a few of the updates the company announced on Tuesday at its annual Max creative conference.
The AI assistants in Photoshop and Express are in beta now. For example, in Express, you can ask the AI to change the color of an object or remove an obtrusive element. While pro users might be comfortable making those edits manually, the AI assistant might be more appealing to its less experienced users and folks working under a time crunch.
This is what Project Moonlight’s chat interface could look like.
While these AI assistants won’t be the “everything machines” that ChatGPT or Gemini claim to be, it’s a stark sign that Adobe’s AI revolution is marching onward. Its focus on agentic AI, like much of the AI industryaims to persuade people to delegate tasks to AI.
In a recent Adobe survey of 16,000 global creators, 86% said they use creative generative AI. Over three-fourths (80%) said Gen AI helped them create content they otherwise couldn’t have made. The new stats align with a growing popularity of generative media tools, like AI image and video generators, with newer models like OpenAI’s Sora and Google’s nano banana going viral this year.
Adobe’s been all in on AI for a while. This year, Adobe introduced AI-first mobile apps forPhotoshop,Fireflyanda new video editor called Premiere. The professional photographers, designers and illustrators who are Adobe’s primary customershaven’t all been sold onAdobe’s AI ambitions, raising concerns about AI’slegality,energy useand ethics.
Agentic AI assistants are just the tip of the iceberg of all the news Adobe dropped on Tuesday. For more, check out the new generative audio and music tools in Firefly.