Adobe is taking a bold leap into the future of creative software by developing AI-powered agents for Photoshop and Premiere Pro, designed to assist users with editing tasks through intelligent recommendations and automated execution.
The company unveiled its vision in a blog post published Wednesday by Ely Greenfield, Adobe’s chief technology officer of digital media. These “creative agents,” as Adobe is calling them, are built to interpret visual content, suggest context-aware edits, and carry out those changes with a single click—or based on a user’s natural language instructions.
Photoshop’s Creative Agent: Smarter, Simpler Editing
Photoshop’s upcoming AI agent will be introduced in a new floating “Actions” panel, a feature that provides real-time, contextual suggestions after analyzing the photo a user is working on. The agent can propose actions like removing distracting background elements, enhancing the depth of field by selectively blurring certain areas, or automatically adjusting lighting and contrast.
Users will be able to accept the agent’s suggestions with one click or refine the edits using traditional tools and layers.
“This represents a major evolution in how people will interact with Photoshop,” Greenfield wrote. “Our goal is to eliminate complexity without sacrificing creative control.”
This innovation builds on existing Adobe Sensei-powered features such as Distraction Removal and Generative Fill, which have already helped streamline tasks like erasing unwanted objects and expanding images beyond their original boundaries.
In one demonstration, Adobe showed how a user could type a command like “replace sky” or “remove background people,” and the agent not only executed the changes but also displayed a detailed breakdown of the steps it took—such as isolating the subject, creating a new text box layer, and adjusting image brightness.
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Long-time Photoshop users are accustomed to labor-intensive workflows involving manual masking, selections, and layer manipulation. Adobe’s new creative agent is poised to reduce that friction significantly, especially for beginners or those looking to speed up repetitive tasks.
Premiere Pro: AI Assistance for Video Editors
Adobe’s AI vision extends to Premiere Pro, where the company plans to build on recent advancements such as Media Intelligence—a feature introduced last week that uses AI to analyze video composition and objects for faster clip selection.
The forthcoming creative agent for Premiere Pro will enable users to direct edits via simple commands, automating initial cuts and organizing footage in line with the editor’s intent. Greenfield emphasized that the agent won’t replace the creative process, but rather complement it.
“While AI can’t replace human creative inspiration, with your input it can make some educated guesses to help you get your project off the ground,” he wrote. “It can also help you learn how to perform complex tasks with a few simple keystrokes, helping you grow as an editor.”
The Premiere agent will eventually support more nuanced functions such as refining shot selection, color grading, audio mixing, and applying transition effects. Adobe also highlighted the new Generative Extend feature, which adds a few extra seconds to video clips using AI, allowing for smoother transitions without additional reshooting.
Natural Language Meets Professional Tools
A central theme in Adobe’s AI strategy is the integration of natural language interfaces with professional creative tools. Instead of relying solely on menus and manual adjustments, users will be able to instruct the AI using everyday language—transforming a task that might once have taken dozens of steps into a simple request.
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This natural language interaction, combined with real-time execution, is expected to make Adobe’s tools more accessible to a broader audience, including content creators, marketers, and social media managers who may not have deep technical expertise.
Even advanced users stand to benefit. After an AI agent completes a suggested task, creatives can still dive into the traditional layer structure to refine or customize the outcome. Adobe emphasized that its agents are not replacing hands-on editing but offering a collaborative starting point.
Launch Details and Future Outlook
Adobe plans to debut the first version of the Photoshop creative agent at its upcoming Adobe Max London event on April 24. While no official release date for public rollout has been confirmed, the demonstration is expected to provide a deeper look at how the agents will function in real-world workflows.
The introduction of these AI agents underscores Adobe’s broader strategy of embedding generative AI into its suite of tools, from Photoshop and Illustrator to After Effects and Premiere Pro. These efforts are built on Adobe’s proprietary Firefly AI model, which is trained using Adobe Stock and publicly licensed content.
As the competition in creative AI heats up—particularly with tech giants like OpenAI and Google also developing AI for creative work—Adobe is positioning itself as the go-to platform for professionals who want to blend automation with artistic control.
Greenfield concluded, “This is just the beginning of a new era where AI works alongside you as a creative partner—not to replace your imagination, but to help bring your ideas to life faster and easier than ever before.”
