Adobe brings AI agents and new creative tools to Photoshop, Premiere, and Firefly

Adobe is integrating more AI across its professional creative software, including Photoshop, Premiere, Illustrator, and InDesign, as well as its creative tool, Firefly. New features include a prototyping tool called Builder in Firefly, a video assembly tool, and an image editor for selective object changes. Specific updates for core applications feature a relighting tool and generative styles for Photoshop, a new color grading system and object removal for Premiere, and eye correction and blemish removal in Lightroom.

A key development is Adobe's Model Context Protocol (MCP), which enables other AI chatbots to access and utilize functions within Creative Cloud applications like Illustrator, Photoshop, After Effects, and Premiere. Adobe Vice President Deepa Subramaniam indicates the company is releasing a range of "endpoints and capabilities" and intends to observe user interaction to determine which features to expose, aiming to support diverse creative workflows without inherent limitations.

However, the full scope of MCP remains undefined, with Adobe still "figuring out" its parameters and relying on user feedback to guide its evolution. This early stage has drawn external commentary; Figma co-founder Dylan Field has reportedly characterized MCP as "not a perfect standard" that primarily benefits "frontier labs," suggesting potential limitations or biases in its current design or application.