Photoshop’s AI Assistant Can Edit Photos for You, if You Want That
Photoshop’s AI Assistant Can Edit Photos for You, if You Want That
Publish Date: 2026-03-10 09:01:00
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Anyone who uses Photoshop regularly knows the photo editing app has gotten a big AI makeover over the past few years. Adobe is taking its next step on that journey now. Photoshop’s AI assistant is publicly available in the web and mobile apps.
Photoshop’s AI assistant is meant to be an editing partner. You can ask the AI to make nearly any kind of edit, from changing the color of an object or removing an obtrusive element. While pro users might be comfortable making those edits manually, the AI assistant might be more appealing to its less experienced users and folks working under a time crunch. Adobe Express, the company’s Canva competitor, has had a similar AI assistant available as a public beta for the past few months.
While these AI assistants won’t be the “everything machines” that ChatGPT or Gemini claim to be, it’s a stark sign that Adobe’s AI revolution is marching onward. They have an emphasis on “conversational, agentic” experiences — meaning you can ask the chatbot to make edits, and it can independently handle them. The company’s focus on agentic AI, like much of the AI industry, aims to persuade people to delegate tasks to AI.
Adobe Express is also getting an AI assistant.
Adobe’s AI ambitions
These AI efforts represent a range of what conversational editing can look like, Mike Polner, Adobe Firefly’s vice president of product marketing for creators, said in an interview.
“One end of the spectrum is [to] type in a prompt and say, ‘Make my hat blue.’ That’s very simplistic,” Polner said. “With Project Moonlight, it can understand your context, explore and help you come up with new ideas and then help you analyze the content that you already have,” Polner said.
This is what Project Moonlight’s chat interface could look like.
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