Adobe’s Agentic AI Assistant Is Here

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Adobe has brought its promised ‘agentic AI assistant’ to Photoshop, Express, and Acrobat. The first version is fairly limited for now and is currently available as a public beta in Photoshop on the web and mobile, but not on desktop yet. Still, it gives us an early look at how Adobe plans to bring more autonomous AI tools into the Creative Cloud.

Inside Photoshop, the new AI Assistant lets you describe the edits you want using simple language. You can ask it to remove distractions, swap backgrounds, change lighting, or adjust colours. From there, you can choose whether the assistant should automatically apply those edits or instead walk you through the process step by step. Thinking about it, that second option could actually be pretty useful for learning Photoshop, since the software still has a reputation for being difficult for beginners. The assistant works through text prompts, and in the Photoshop mobile app it can also respond to voice commands.

There are also a few new AI tools tied into the system. In Photoshop for the web, a new AI Markup tool lets you draw directly on an image and add prompts explaining what should change in that specific area. At the same time, Adobe continues to expand its Firefly ecosystem, which powers features like Generative Fill, Generative Remove, Generative Expand, Generative Upscale, and Remove Background. These tools are now also available inside the dedicated Firefly Image Editor, and Firefly itself now supports more than 25 different AI models, including systems from Google, OpenAI, and Black Forest Labs. The AI Assistant beta is available now in Photoshop for web and mobile (iOS and Android), while the new Firefly editing tools have already started rolling out.

You can see full details on Adobe’s blog here