Key facts
- Adobe is releasing a local Model Context Protocol that lets chatbots such as ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini use Creative Services features.
- Adobe's Firefly gains a prototyping tool called Prototype in beta, plus a chart tool and partial-image editing.
- Photoshop gains a relighting feature and presets for AI-generated styles; Premiere gets color grading and object removal.
- Adobe vice president Deepa Subramaniam said the company is still deciding which capabilities the MCP will expose.
- Adobe-owned Topaz Labs is releasing Wonder 4 for upscaling and denoising and ImageHDR for HDR conversion.
Adobe announced a set of AI features across its creative software at its MAX event in Miami on November 10, 2026, according to TechCrunch. The additions cover Photoshop, Premiere, Illustrator, InDesign, Lightroom and the company's Firefly tool.
Photoshop is gaining a relighting feature and sliders for prompt-based generative styles. Premiere gets a color grading system aimed at professionals and an object removal feature for video. Lightroom adds a tool to correct blinking eyes and a blemish removal tool.
In Firefly, Adobe opened a private beta of a prototyping tool called Builder, which lets users create designs to present ideas. Firefly also gains a tool for on-brand graphs, an image editing tool that changes part of an image without altering other objects, and an AI video tool that assembles a video from clips, images and sound effects.
Adobe said it is making its agent proactive and always on so it can gather more context about a user's work. The company is also adding shortcuts for actions such as removing a background or generating a video thumbnail.
Adobe is releasing a local Model Context Protocol that exposes more features of its Creative Cloud apps to outside chatbots including ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini. Adobe vice president Deepa Subramaniam told TechCrunch the company is still working out which capabilities to expose. "We are still figuring out where and when and how to draw the line," she said, adding that Adobe has no desire to limit what the MCP endpoint can expose.
Adobe already offers third-party models from companies including Google, Runway, ElevenLabs, Black Forest Labs, OpenAI, Kling and ByteDance. Topaz Labs, which Adobe acquired, is releasing two image models: Wonder 4 for upscaling and denoising, and ImageHDR for converting standard images to HDR.
Figma co-founder Dylan Field said at an event in India last month that MCP is not a perfect standard and benefits frontier labs more, TechCrunch reported.