Adobe Opens Creative Cloud Tools to Chatbots, Tests Firefly Builder

Adobe is opening more Creative Cloud functions to AI chatbots through a local Model Context Protocol interface while testing a Firefly prototyping tool, expanding access to its creative software.

The MCP interface connects chatbot clients with capabilities in Illustrator, Photoshop, After Effects and Premiere. Adobe already offers some product functions through ChatGPT and Claude integrations; the new interface exposes additional features. Gemini is among the chatbots named as compatible with Adobe's tools.

Adobe Vice President Deepa Subramaniam said the company is still deciding which capabilities to make available. "We are still figuring out where and when and how to draw the line," she said.

Firefly Builder, now in private beta, lets users make designs to present ideas. Other Firefly additions include a tool for creating on-brand graphs, targeted image editing that leaves other objects unchanged, and an AI video tool that combines clips with images and sound effects.

Adobe is also making its agent proactive and continuously available so it can gather more context about a user's work. Quick actions include removing an image background or generating a video thumbnail.

Across its apps, Photoshop is adding image relighting and sliders for prompt-based generative styles. Premiere is getting a professional color-grading system and a video object-removal feature, while Lightroom is adding blinking-eye correction and blemish removal.

Topaz Labs, one of Adobe's newer acquisitions, is releasing two image models. Wonder 4 is for upscaling and denoising, while ImageHDR converts standard images into high dynamic range images.