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

At its MAX event in Miami, Adobe announced new AI features across Photoshop, Premiere, Illustrator, InDesign, Lightroom, and Firefly, including a private-beta Firefly prototyping tool called Builder, an always-on proactive agent, and a local Model Context Protocol (MCP) that exposes Creative Cloud capabilities to chatbots like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini. Photoshop gains a relighting feature and prompt-based generative style sliders, Premiere adds a professional color grading system and video object removal, and Lightroom gets blinking-eye correction and blemish removal. Adobe VP Deepa Subramaniam told TechCrunch the company is still deciding which capabilities to expose through the MCP and will rely on user feedback.