Adobe has launched a public beta bringing its Firefly AI Assistant directly into the sidebars of Photoshop, Premiere Pro, Illustrator, InDesign, and Frame.io, marking one of the company’s largest artificial intelligence expansions to date and extending the conversational, multi-step agent it first introduced earlier this year well beyond its original Firefly-only scope. Adobe announced the major expansion of its creative agent across Firefly and Creative Cloud on June 18, 2026, with the AI Assistant now available today in public beta across Premiere, Photoshop, Illustrator, Frame.io, and InDesign, while After Effects remains in private beta.
These assistants are designed to automate repetitive tasks and assist users with edits via natural language prompts, with users able to describe their desired actions instead of navigating menus or learning complex workflows, while the software handles the rest. In Photoshop, this means users can reorganise layers, swap backgrounds, resize assets for various platforms, and perform other edits simply by describing the outcome. The task-specific assistants use natural language prompts to automate tedious chores like batch-renaming clips, organizing design layers, and running print-readiness checks. Premiere Pro is getting what could be one of the most useful implementations among the rollout.
Adobe describes the assistant as a knowledgeable co-worker right beside the user in the app, where the user states what they want to achieve and the assistant decides which tools to use and in what order to get the job done, with Adobe’s stated intent being to guide users down the happy path rather than leaving them to sort through endless menus. Each assistant is customised for its respective application but shares Adobe’s core conversational creative agent technology, with the company aiming to provide every creative professional with an AI assistant that understands their tools, offering a personalised experience rather than a generic chatbot. A new Elements feature allows users to save characters, locations and objects they have previously generated to reuse in future outputs, which Adobe suggests will allow AI Assistant to better maintain consistency across stories, campaigns and projects that evolve inside Firefly.
The broadest move reaches outside Adobe’s own apps entirely, with the company connecting its generation and workflow tools to ChatGPT, Claude, and Microsoft 365 Copilot, which are live now, while Google Gemini and Slack have been named as planned additions. Adobe’s AI-related recurring revenue has surpassed $500 million, tripling year over year, underlining the commercial significance of the company’s push to embed agentic AI assistance directly into the professional creative tools that designers, photographers, and video editors use every day. The expansion signals Adobe’s clear intent to position Firefly not as a standalone generative tool but as a connective layer threading through every stage of the creative process, from ideation in third-party AI chat interfaces through to final production inside its flagship desktop applications, with the unified experience extending well beyond the boundaries of Creative Cloud itself.
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