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Adobe adds agentic editing tools across Creative Cloud
Adobe is rolling new Creative Agent capabilities and editing tools into Photoshop, Premiere, Illustrator and InDesign, aiming to speed up core workflows without taking control away from editors.
Adobe said on Tuesday at Adobe MAX that the Adobe Creative Agent is now available in Premiere, Illustrator, InDesign, After Effects and Frame.io, letting professionals direct multi-step edits in their own words. In Premiere specifically, the agent can now apply effects across every clip in a sequence, track masked subjects through a frame, and sync color and exposure adjustments across a whole sequence in one pass. Local MCP integrations are also in preview, a feature that would let creative professionals point their own third-party agents at native Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere and After Effects project files and edit them directly, with layers, sequences and compositions still open to manual changes at any point.
New Photoshop tools include Relight, which adds and adjusts lighting; Generative Restyle, which turns prompt-driven edits into adjustable sliders; a Remove Tool for related elements; Quick Compare for checking before-and-after edits; and an AI Assisted Editor built to simplify the interface. Premiere is adding Color Mode, described as a first-of-its-kind color-grading system, along with a Generative Media Tool for creating video, sound effects and music directly in the timeline, and a beta Generative Remove for erasing unwanted objects from footage. Lightroom is getting a Glow effect, one-tap Blemish Removal, and a beta Open Eyes tool that corrects blinks using a reference photo, while InDesign adds real-time Co-editing (beta) and new document-checking tools.
“Our latest Creative Cloud innovations transform our trusted creative tools into agentic, intelligent workflows that give pros the precision, control and flexibility to explore their ideas,” said Deepa Subramaniam, Adobe’s vice president of product marketing for Creative Cloud. Following Adobe’s acquisition of Topaz Labs, the company is rolling out two fresh image-enhancement models it calls Wonder 4 and Image HDR, built to handle upscaling, denoising, deblurring and sharpening together. Most of the new Creative Cloud features are generally available now, while Co-editing, Open Eyes, Firefly Design and Firefly Graph remain in beta and Firefly Builder stays in private beta; the local MCP integrations are due in private beta in early 2027.
Why it matters
Adobe is betting that layering agents on top of tools professionals already trust — rather than replacing those tools with a model — keeps paying subscribers inside Creative Cloud as AI-native editors compete for the same work.