Adobe Photoshop Adds AI Assistant to Automate Repetitive Design Tasks

[MacRumors]

Adobe today announced a new AI Assistant for Photoshop that will allow designers and creative professionals to automate repetitive tasks. Powered by agentic AI, the AI assistant can complete creative tasks, offer personalized recommendations, and provide tutorials.

The AI Assistant is also coming to Adobe Express, Adobe's cloud-based design tool. With both Photoshop and Express, users can take advantage of conversation-based creation and editing tools. Adobe says that it's easy to transition between conversational creation and hands-on editing with access to manual tools.

There are several other AI tools coming to photoshop, including Generative Upscale and Generative Fill with partner models. Generative Fill can be used with Gemini 2.5 Flash, Black Forest Labs LUX.1 Kontext, and Firefly Image Models for removing or modifying content with text-based prompts. A new Harmonize feature is able to blend people or objects into new scenes, matching light, color, and tone to provide natural results.

Harmonize, Generative Fill, and Generative Upscale with access to partner models are available today, while Photoshop AI Assistant is available through a private beta waitlist. Adobe Express AI Assistant is available to Adobe Express Premium customers.

More on Adobe's new announcements can be found on the Adobe website.

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[Astuces iOS]

Cool but expensive

 

[dominiongamma]

I want less AI in all my programs.

 

[Boeingfan]

I see Adobe and run.

 

[Eureka20]

Thanks. I hate it. Another reason for me to not renew my photoshop subscription.

 

[Elwe]

I want less AI in all my programs.

Agreed. But it is not about what you—or we—want. That has been made clear enough. Anyone running a company right now only has AI and layoffs on their brain. Many know this is not going to end well, though they want to get theirs while they can. Some are true believers. Collectively, we as a people don’t seem to know how to stop it, or care enough to do what is necessary to stop it.

It just heard a recording of a person being laid off from an AWS role this morning that was repeated to thousands, it seems. It was done via highly HR-ed script, and AI was mentioned directly three times.

 

[Boeingfan]

Agreed. But it is not what you—or we—want. That has been made clear enough. Anyone running a company right now only has AI and layoffs on their brain. Many know this is not going to end well, though they want to get theirs while they can. Some are true believers. Collectively, we as a people don’t seem to know how to stop it, or care enough to do what is necessary to stop it.

It just heard a recording of a person being laid off from an AWS role this morning that was repeated to thousands, it seems. It was done via highly HR-ed script, and AI was mentioned directly three times.

And yet when the person who decided to sack all those staff gets hit by a bus, AI will not come to save them, humans will.

 

[JosephAW]

Does that mean they will phase out actions? More reasons to maintain CS3 on dedicated Intel Mac hardware

 

[turbineseaplane]

No thank you, I will pass on this.

I continue to use a much older version of PS.

 

[seinman]

Thanks. I hate it. Another reason for me to not renew my photoshop subscription.

I cancelled my Photoshop subscription about a year ago when they started pushing AI hard. Feels good man.

Agreed. But it is not what you—or we—want. That has been made clear enough. Anyone running a company right now only has AI and layoffs on their brain. Many know this is not going to end well, though they want to get theirs while they can. Some are true believers. Collectively, we as a people don’t seem to know how to stop it, or care enough to do what is necessary to stop it.

It just heard a recording of a person being laid off from an AWS role this morning that was repeated to thousands, it seems. It was done via highly HR-ed script, and AI was mentioned directly three times.

Conspiracy theory I believe: big tech knows the AI bubble will burst because it’s not really that useful. They’re using the hype as an excuse to fire people now, and then they’ll backfill those roles after the burst at a much lower salary.

 

[boswald]

The only time it would be useful to me is if it could automatically restore/optimize pictures for me because I have no idea what I’m doing. Preferably in batches. Other than that, I’ll nope my way back under my rock.

 

[Rico-Suave]

Adobe's Firefly is garbage compared to other generative AI models.

 

[MaxLeopold]

What about macOS 26 TAHOE Support Compatibility ?

 

[th0masp]

What gave them the idea that someone using Photoshop would want to bring up a prompt and write a novel about what they want an AI to achieve? There's a pointer on the screen guys...

 

[macduke]

Agreed. But it is not about what you—or we—want. That has been made clear enough. Anyone running a company right now only has AI and layoffs on their brain. Many know this is not going to end well, though they want to get theirs while they can. Some are true believers. Collectively, we as a people don’t seem to know how to stop it, or care enough to do what is necessary to stop it.

It just heard a recording of a person being laid off from an AWS role this morning that was repeated to thousands, it seems. It was done via highly HR-ed script, and AI was mentioned directly three times.

So true. I think it was 14,000 or so laid off today? It’s coming for all of us. I’ve been saying this for many years and everyone told me to ****. We’re a moth drawn to flame with AI. And yeah, I gotta use it for my job because now I’m expected to get more done in less time, and I even work for myself. I can’t compete with these other proposals if I’m taking twice as long and therefore twice the billable. It’s horrible. I think AI is a leading cause of the great filter and why we don’t see signs of alien life out there.

 

[MacGizmo]

The new features announced/released today in Photoshop (as well as Illustrator and InDesign) are fantastic. In particular, the Upscaling feature is amazing compared to what I had been using (a free app called Upscayl).

As a side note, I wish we could have a discussion about Adobe's apps on MacRumors without any thread about them being overrun with people complaining about subscriptions and uninformed commentary and opinion about what people "think" other designers want.

 

[svish]

Good to know about the new AI features. However with the subscription pricing, Adobe Photoshop is not for me.

 

[Ulfric]

Some of them are just bloat, I just wish they would let us download older versions like Autodesk, In that case I would have stayed with the 2020 version for eternity.

 

[Nozuka]

I'm a simple person.
I read Adobe and i hate the product immediately.

 

[Skyscraperfan]

Photoshop becomes a less an less serious tool for photo editing. Once AI is involved in anything more than noise reduction, the photo becomes pretty useless for many use cases such as editorial photos. If you add something, it is not a photo any more.

It is okay, if Ai help you editing by selecting an object for example, but no AI in the world will ever know what was behind an object you removed.

AI image generation was a nice gimmick when it came up a few years ago, but now most real images on Facebook are replaced by AI images. If there is an article "Country XY plans new high speed train", it will not come with an actual design of the train, but with an AI image. Very often those are misleading and quite far from reality.

And I have to emphasize again that it is okay to pirate Adobe products. That is an evil company which intentionally makes it hard for its customers to cancel a subscription. It is easier to get out of Scientology or a North Korean jail than an Adobe subscription.

 

[freezelighter]

Incredible how much hate there still is for Adobe and AI.
While you keep denying reality — and the only future that exists.

The entire business area of graphic design and photo processing is dead.
Anyone still studying it is literally digging their own grave.

Photography agencies are finished.
For commercial use, everything could already be generated with Firefly 3 - and now we have Firefly 4 Ultra and Firefly 5 with full high-resolution output. Neither ChatGPT's image model, nor Midjourney 7, Imagen 4, or Grok 4 can compete with Firefly’s results when it comes to raw photos — and that’s not an opinion, but a statement from both a professional photographer and a quality control expert.

Photographers are gone. The last remnants will vanish once updated Nano-Banana algorithm reaches ultra-high-res output in early 2026, allowing anyone to generate lifelike photos of whoever and whatever they want, in QHD up to 8K.

The sector has already collapsed. People just refuse to accept it.

As a NatGeo & Getty Images photographer, ambassador of multiple camera brands, designer and illustrator, I’ve watched this unfold since 2023 — step by step.

Here in Switzerland, agencies have already stripped 90% of photographers’ relevance, and the remaining 10% — private shootings — are gone too.

Who seriously wants slow, expensive, outdated humans fiddling with cameras and editing software when you can generate entire sets incl. processing done in minutes?

Photoshop agents will execute complex prompts, know exactly what to do, and can be trained, optimized, and adapted endlessly — without degrees, without understanding of layers & masks.

On social media alone, I earned more money on the toilet than in the previous 15 years of “traditional” photography — by generating entire campaigns, selling them to businesses, and signing deals with brands that now use my generated content.

The truth is simple: AI didn’t kill photography.

Photography committed suicide by refusing to evolve.

And that’s exactly why, in parallel, I work as a senior quality manager at a neuroscience company — validating retinal AI systems that interface directly with the human visual cortex.

If outsiders had any idea what is currently being developed — and what’s already entering the PQ phase — they’d stop arguing about trivial things like Adobe subscriptions and start realizing how small their world has become.

 

[baryon]

I don't care. It's a subscription. There are open source models that do this locally for free.

 

[cicalinarrot]

I want less AI in all my programs.

Fine, there should be less AI and most of it is useless but... I don't get the general hate.
The useless AI tools will naturally die pretty soon, the useful ones will survive.
This looks like it could pretty useful and save a lot of time. It's a very expensive application for professionals, it makes a lot of sense.

 

[tizeye]

I’m waiting for the “Dump Adobe” Ai.
Was successful with dumping most of Creative Cloud with the exception of the Lightroom/Photoshop “Photographers Package.” Now note that Adobe has destroyed it with their price restructure, silently grandfathering in existing customers - eliminating the monthly $9.99 but pay annual $120. However, new customers (and presumably former customers who left the Photographers Package) it is no longer available. The have stripped Photoshop out, now a $22/mo add on, and Lightroom bloated with storage at Adobe and business oriented team access. Now, with the Photoshop add on, it is $250 annually - with no assurance how long existing customers will be grandfathered at the former annual rate. Adobe can keep their grubby hands off my files. If I want the team cloud access, it is very easy to create a personal private cloud on a NAS and give “team members” full or limited access.

 

[JMalone]

Adobe's Firefly is garbage compared to other generative AI models.

True but all of them perform badly compared to the demos we see posted by influencers and marketing people. It’s as if they’re trying to sell you something by only showing the few generations that look kinda ok.