Adobe brings AI Assistants to Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign

On 18 June 2026 Adobe announced a major expansion of its creative agent across Firefly and Creative Cloud. Each app gets an AI Assistant that works as a specialist inside that tool and can carry out multi-step tasks.

What the assistants do

Adobe’s examples include swapping backgrounds, resizing assets for several platforms and organising layers in Photoshop; generating 50 versioned files from a spreadsheet and running pre-flight checks for colour mode and missing fonts in Illustrator; and applying changes from a new brand PDF across layouts in InDesign.

Availability

The assistants are in public beta in Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere and Frame.io, with After Effects in private beta. The Firefly web app gains skills for brand kits, short product videos, quick cuts and storyboards. Adobe’s tools also connect to ChatGPT, Claude and Microsoft 365 Copilot, with Google Gemini and Slack announced.

What it means for designers

David Wadhwani, president of Adobe’s Creativity & Productivity business, said that every creative now has an agent that can help them work across every app. The examples focus on repetitive production work rather than concept creation.