At its MAX event in Miami, Adobe announced a new set of AI features for Photoshop, Premiere, Illustrator and InDesign, alongside additions to its Firefly app and a local implementation of the Model Context Protocol (MCP). The MCP is intended to let chatbots such as ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini use Adobe features.
Firefly updates
Firefly is gaining a prototyping tool called Builder, now in private beta, that lets users create designs for presenting ideas. The addition extends Firefly into prototyping, an area associated with Figma.
Adobe is also adding a tool for creating on-brand graphs and an image-editing tool that can change part of an image without altering other objects. A new AI-powered video tool will let users assemble videos from clips and other elements, including images and sound effects.
The company is making its agent proactive and always on so that it can gather more context about a user's work and be available during any action. Adobe is also making quick actions easier, such as removing a background or generating a video thumbnail.
Creative app features
Adobe has already introduced AI features across products including Photoshop, Express, Premiere and Illustrator. The new announcements continue that expansion:
- Photoshop is receiving a relighting feature and sliders for prompt-based generative styles.
- Premiere is receiving a color-grading system for professionals and an object-removal feature for video.
- Lightroom is receiving tools to correct eyes that were captured blinking and to remove blemishes.
Models and MCP
Adobe already offers third-party models from Google, Runway, ElevenLabs, Black Forest Labs, OpenAI, Kling and ByteDance. Topaz Labs, one of Adobe's newer acquisitions, is releasing two image models: Wonder 4 for upscaling and denoising, and ImageHDR for converting standard images into HDR images.
Adobe already has ChatGPT and Claude integrations that give users access to some product functions. Its new local MCP is intended to expose more Creative Cloud app features to users.
Adobe vice president Deepa Subramaniam told TechCrunch that the company is still deciding which capabilities to expose and will rely on user feedback. She said the initial release includes endpoints and capabilities across Illustrator, Photoshop, After Effects and Premiere, and that Adobe will watch how people use them and what they are trying to accomplish. Subramaniam said Adobe has no need or desire to limit what the MCP endpoint can expose and instead wants to support the creative workflow users choose.
In October 2026, Figma co-founder Dylan Field said at an event in India that MCP is not a perfect standard and that it benefits frontier labs more.