Photoshop's AI assistant is making its way to the desktop

Image: Adobe Adobe has announced that it's bringing its AI "creative agent" to the desktop version of Photoshop, after it debuted on the web version of the app earlier this year. While the software is still in beta, it shows that the company is moving forward with its plans to add an increasing number of AI-powered features into its photo editing software. The goal of the assistant is to provide a chat interface that lets you ask the software to carry out various tasks for you. These could be relatively simple menial tasks – adjusting a photo's brightness, organizing layers, applying edits to make the subject stand out – or relatively complex tasks, like figuring out error messages, coming up with captions for your photo for social media, or identifying fonts in an image. Image: Adobe When we spoke to a Photoshop project manager at Adobe's Max conference last year after the feature's announcement, they made it clear the company viewed the AI tool as a way to automate tasks, rather than a guide to teach you the software. And while it can act as one – it describes the edits it makes, which are often applied as layers and effects that you can then tweak – the company is clearly continuing along that line, pitching it as a way to let you focus on your craft, rather than the boring parts of editing. Of course being an AI system, and a beta one at that, there are still plenty of warnings that results may be inaccurate, and that it can make mistakes. We found that to be true when we tried out the version of the tool available on the web earlier this year, though we wouldn't be surprised if Adobe has made some progress on that front since then. The AI assistant is currently available in Photoshop Beta for Creative Cloud subscribers. Adobe Unveils Major Expansion of Creative Agent Across Firefly and Creative Cloud Apps Including Photoshop and Premiere SAN JOSE, Calif. — June 18, 2026 — Today, Adobe (Nasdaq: ADBE) — the global technology leader that unleashes creativity, productivity and customer experiences through innovative tools and platforms — announced a major expansion of its creative agent across Firefly and Creative Cloud. Adobe Firefly, the all-in-one creative AI studio, now delivers expanded agentic capabilities with new creative skills and tools, and previewed a unified experience that brings every stage of creative work together from ideation to creation to production. Adobe is also introducing its creative agent across Creative Cloud apps including Photoshop, Premiere, Illustrator and more, enabling creators to describe their desired outcome while the assistant orchestrates multi-step workflows. Together, these advancements establish Adobe’s creative agent as the connective layer across every stage of creative work, letting creatives focus on the craft, taste and judgment that make the work distinctly theirs.