On December 10, Adobe announced the native integration of Photoshop, Express, and Acrobat within ChatGPT, allowing users to directly call these three creative tools in the conversation interface to edit photos, design, and handle PDFs without switching to external applications. David Wadhwani, President of Adobe Digital Media, stated that this move combines "Adobe's creative power with the convenient interaction of ChatGPT," further lowering the barriers to creation.
Photoshop: Edit photos with natural language, complete brightness/contrast/effects with one sentence
- Supports detail adjustment, exposure repair, and adding creative filters
- Based on Adobe MCP (Model Context Protocol), ChatGPT can understand complex instructions like "change the background to a sunset" and execute them directly
Adobe Express: Design within the chat box, even generate animations
- One-click access to a design template library, supports text filling, image replacement, animation creation, and iteration
- Suitable for quick production scenarios such as social media posters and short video covers
Adobe Acrobat: "Conversational" editing of PDFs
- Supports extracting text/tables, merging multiple files, format conversion, and compression
- While maintaining document quality, you can complete full-text summaries, Q&A, and annotations directly within ChatGPT
Technical Foundation: MCP + AI Assistant, Seamless Experience
- Integrated with Adobe MCP protocol, ChatGPT can read and write the context of Adobe tools, achieving "interaction as operation"
- Shares the same backend as the Photoshop AI Assistant and Acrobat Studio released at Adobe MAX 2024, ensuring output quality and consistency
Launch Information
- Coverage: Global ChatGPT users, available on desktop, web, and iOS immediately
- Pricing: Currently free, no details on future paid plans
- Announcement: The Adobe Firefly AI Assistant will be launched soon, supporting one-click generation of "text → image/video/3D"
Industry Impact: Creative Tools Enter the "Conversation to Finished Product" Era
When photo editing, design, and PDF editing are all integrated into a chat box, "creative software" has officially upgraded to "creative service." For non-professional users, this means they no longer need to learn layers, filters, or PDF menus; a single sentence can produce commercial-grade materials. For professionals, repetitive tasks can be handed over to AI, allowing them to focus on creativity itself. AIbase will continue to track the launch progress and pricing changes of the Firefly AI Assistant.
