Major Adobe Product Update: Proactive AI Agents and Other AI-Powered Tools
Adobe has updated Photoshop, Premiere, Illustrator, and InDesign with AI features and introduced MCP to allow third-party chatbots access to Creative Cloud tools.
At the MAX conference in Miami, Adobe announced new artificial intelligence-based features for Photoshop, Premiere, Illustrator, and InDesign, as well as expanded capabilities for Firefly. Photoshop now includes tools for adjusting lighting and customizing generative styles via text prompts. Premiere has received a professional color correction system and an object removal feature for videos, while Lightroom has added tools for fixing closed eyes and removing defects from photos.
The company also introduced the Model Context Protocol (MCP). This will enable third-party chatbots to utilize the functions of Creative Cloud applications. Adobe has already integrated its products with ChatGPT and Claude, as well as provided access to models from Google, Runway, ElevenLabs, Black Forest Labs, OpenAI, Kling, and ByteDance. Adobe Vice President Deepa Subramaniam stated that the company will gradually unlock new capabilities through MCP, observing how users interact with the available tools.
Firefly has introduced Builder—a tool for creating design layouts and prototypes. It is currently undergoing closed beta testing. Additionally, the service now includes tools for generating brand-style graphs, editing individual image elements, and assembling video clips from fragments with added images and sound effects. Adobe also presented proactive AI agents, which, according to the company, are designed to better account for the user's work context, and simplified tasks such as background removal and creating video thumbnails.
Recently acquired by Adobe, Topaz Labs introduced two models: Wonder 4 for resolution enhancement and noise reduction, and ImageHDR for converting standard images into HDR format.
