- Adobe introduces agentic AI assistants for Acrobat, Photoshop, and Express apps.
- New AI feature promises streamlined workflows, automating routine creative tasks.
- Smarter AI editing tools coming soon for video, image, PDF projects.
Adobe has revealed its next major step in artificial intelligence, announcing plans to build “agentic AI” into its creative software lineup. These aren’t just simple tools; you can think of them as smart assistants inside apps like Photoshop and Premiere Pro that can understand instructions, chat with users, and even handle tasks on their own.
In a recent blog post, Adobe laid out how this technology could change the way people work with its products, describing the AI agents as partners rather than replacements for human skill.
Adobe insists the goal isn’t to automate creativity away (which is a relief for us creatives) but to help users by taking over tedious or repetitive parts of the job. This should free people up to focus more on the imaginative side of creating.
The company believes this approach will make workflows faster and help users achieve better results, potentially making old methods like starting from basic templates feel less useful. This strategy follows Adobe’s earlier AI work, like its Adobe Firefly image generator, aiming to weave AI help more deeply into everyday creative tasks.
This new approach will show up in practical ways across different Adobe apps. In Adobe Acrobat, which already has an AI Assistant for understanding PDFs, users might soon be able to create custom agents for specific tasks, like having an AI helper summarize long documents or prepare notes for a meeting.
For Adobe Express users, the AI agents are intended to act as guides, helping to create designs or add effects through simple requests, making design tools more accessible to everyone.
The changes could be especially helpful for professionals using Adobe’s core creative programs. In Adobe Photoshop, the company is developing features like a new Actions panel that could lead to an agent suggesting smart edits based on image analysis or taking commands in plain English.
For video editors using Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe plans agents that understand video content, potentially helping assemble rough cuts, find the best shots, or assist with technical jobs like color correction, tackling common time sinks in the editing process, following recent AI updates.
Adobe sees these AI agents as a way to boost productivity across its software. By learning and helping with tasks from start to finish, the aim is to speed up creative work and let individual creators do more. While the technology sounds advanced, Adobe emphasizes that the user stays in charge, with the AI acting as a sophisticated assistant meant to enhance creativity, not replace it.
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