Adobe Teamed Up With Open AI

credits: Adobe/Open AI

Adobe teamed up with Open AI to integrate Photoshop, Adobe Express, and Acrobat directly into ChatGPT, allowing users to handle a range of creative and document-related tasks without leaving the chat interface. The idea, according to Adobe, is to let people move quicker on everyday work by using text commands instead of jumping between apps. Users can now ask ChatGPT to perform actions like editing images, creating simple designs, or working with PDFs, with Adobe’s tools running in the background.

Photoshop is the most prominent part of the integration. Within ChatGPT, you can make common image edits such as adjusting brightness and colour, blurring or replacing backgrounds, applying effects, or editing specific areas of an image. Controls are kept relatively simple, relying on text prompts and sliders rather than the full Photoshop interface, so it is clearly meant for quick edits and lightweight workflows, not deep retouching or complex compositing. When more advanced work is needed, you can just open up the same file in the full Photoshop app and continue there without starting over.

Adobe Express and Acrobat are included as well, but they play a more supporting role. Express covers basic, template-based design tasks, while Acrobat handles everyday PDF work like editing text, merging files, or converting formats. The bigger story here is competition. Adobe is under increasing pressure from alternatives like Affinity, which was recently acquired by Canva and is now completely free, making professional-grade tools far more accessible. By bringing Photoshop into ChatGPT and offering these entry-level features at no cost, Adobe seems to be widening its funnel and trying to stay relevant at a time when Creative Cloud subscriptions are facing more scrutiny than ever.