At its Adobe MAX conference, Adobe announced a broad set of AI-powered features rolling out across its creative apps starting today, including Photoshop additions like Relight, Generative Restyle, Generative Recompose, Camera Angles, and Convert to Text Layers. Adobe also said it will add support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP) in 2027, enabling deeper integration between its tools and external AI systems.
9to5mac.com
· 2026-11-10
At its MAX event in Miami, Adobe unveiled a wave of AI updates spanning Photoshop, Premiere, Illustrator, InDesign and Firefly, including a prototyping tool called Builder, an AI video assembly feature, and a Model Context Protocol letting chatbots like ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini access Adobe functions. Specific app updates include Photoshop relighting and generative style sliders, Premiere color grading and object removal, Lightroom blemish and blink correction, plus new image models Wonder 4 and ImageHDR from acquired company Topaz Labs.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-11-10
At Adobe Max, Adobe announced it is broadening its local Model Context Protocol integrations with third-party AI companies, allowing agents like ChatGPT or Claude to directly perform edits inside the Photoshop beta desktop app. The new integrations are currently in preview, and Adobe says the goal is letting users work with their preferred AI assistant inside select Creative Cloud apps.
cnet.com
· 2026-11-10
Adobe unveiled updates at its Max event including a beta Generative Remove tool for Premiere that erases unwanted objects from video using generative AI fill, plus new audio-separation tools and a generally available Generative Media feature. Photoshop received an improved Remove Tool that better reconstructs shadows and reflections, along with new Quick Compare and Relight features, while Lightroom also gained similar cleanup capabilities.
theverge.com
· 2026-11-10
A new commentary piece argues that AI labs' push to sell AI coding assistants as replacements for human software engineers has backfired by letting ordinary users build cheap alternatives to paid software products. It cites examples such as a hobbyist building a Photoshop-like tool in a weekend and AI tools reverse-engineering established software and releasing clones as open source. The author frames this as AI labs undermining the recurring-revenue business model of the very companies they hoped would become their paying customers.
techbronerd.substack.com
· 2026-10-25
Developer Rafael Rivera found that wallpapers Microsoft emailed to Windows Insiders in mid-October, marking the program's 12th anniversary, carried file metadata showing they were saved using Photoshop on a Mac. Rivera said the ten wallpapers came from Microsoft's in-house design team, and the company has since replaced the files on its design site without comment.
techspot.com
· 2026-10-25
Adobe has added an Open Eyes Quick Action to the mobile version of Lightroom for iOS, iPadOS and Android. When the app detects closed eyes in a photo, it surfaces an icon that uses generative AI to replace them, drawing on other images of the same person in the user's library to match eye color, size and shape.
theverge.com
· 2026-10-20
Adobe VP Deepa Subramaniam said the company has rearchitected Photoshop, Premiere and Substance 3D Painter to run on NVIDIA's new RTX Spark system-on-chip, which brings local AI processing to Windows laptops and small desktops aimed at creatives. Subramaniam claims the optimized apps run twice as fast on AI-driven tasks and general editing workflows, with improvements including real-time previews in Photoshop, faster rendering and color-grading in Premiere, and quicker texturing and file handling in Substance 3D Painter.
engadget.com
· 2026-10-15
Software engineer Brandon Thomas, known on Reddit as u/ai_art_is_art, released 13 free, open-source apps through his site ArtCraft that mimic core features of Adobe and Microsoft programs. The apps include PhotoCraft, WordCraft and DeckCraft, built to replace Photoshop, Word and PowerPoint respectively.
cnet.com
· 2026-10-13
A growing number of AI-assisted software projects are attempting to recreate Adobe's applications, with one effort reportedly involving over 165 contributors submitting hundreds of pull requests daily using Claude. The author estimates spending on AI API tokens for the largest such project has exceeded $50,000 in two weeks, while noting none of these clones can yet match Photoshop's brush engine performance on large canvases.
shokunin.studio
· 2026-10-12
A longtime holdout who stuck with JPEGs, PNGs and SVGs says he has now started using WebP images, crediting better tooling in Pixelmator Pro after switching away from Photoshop. He reports WebP consistently produced smaller files than JPEG or PNG at similar visual quality in recent projects, though he notes Photoshop still lacks WebP support in its Save for Web and Export As tools.
anderegg.ca
· 2026-10-09
Brandon Thomas has developed seven open-source applications that mimic Adobe's popular creative tools, including Photoshop, Illustrator, and Premiere, using AI-powered reverse engineering. The projects, built in Rust and announced on Reddit, aim to provide free alternatives without subscription fees, with claims of reaching near-complete functionality within a month. The initiative was partly motivated by frustrations with Adobe's cancellation fees and subscription model.
techspot.com
· 2026-10-08
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