Adobe MAX 2026 Keynote: Creative Agent Beta Expands
Adobe brought its Creative Agent assistant to beta in six Creative Cloud apps during the Adobe MAX keynote in Miami Beach. The company also outlined integrations with AI chatbots, expected to enter private beta in early 2027, and announced new editing tools for Photoshop, Lightroom and Premiere.
Adobe expanded its Creative Agent AI assistant to beta across six Creative Cloud apps during the adobe max 2026 keynote in Miami Beach, giving users a way to direct multi-step creative tasks through natural-language requests. The company also announced chatbot integrations expected to enter private beta in early 2027.
The assistant is available in Photoshop, Premiere, Illustrator, InDesign, After Effects and Frame.io. Users can ask it to carry out simple actions or more complex operations, and Plan Mode shows the steps it intends to take for approval or changes.
Adobe said early testers have used Creative Agent to batch-retouch portraits and turn product shots into social media videos. Users can also save personal style preferences rather than enter them again for each task.
In Premiere, the assistant can apply effects across every clip in a sequence, track a masked subject through a shot, and adjust color and exposure across a sequence.
Adobe also announced planned integrations with AI chatbots including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and CoPilot. The integrations are expected to let users work in apps such as Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere and After Effects from their preferred assistant.
Adobe said the results will remain editable, with layers, sequences and compositions preserved so users can refine or undo changes. The integrations are expected to be available in private beta from early 2027.
Photoshop is adding Relight, which lets users place up to three light sources around a subject. Adobe also upgraded the Remove Tool and introduced Generative Restyle, which turns prompt-based edits into an adjustable slider.
Other Photoshop updates include improved Select Subject, color adjustments and AI-powered Layer Cleanup, which removes empty layers and renames layers based on their contents. A preview slider divides the screen to show before-and-after changes.
Lightroom’s new Glow feature offers five styles for a soft lighting effect. Blemish Removal adds one-click retouching with controls for adjusting the result, while Open Eyes is in beta and can replace closed eyes in a group photo using another image from the same shoot as a reference.
Premiere is also getting Color Mode, a new system for color grading. Adobe highlighted audio tools including Enhance Audio, which cleans up recordings, and Separate Crosstalk, which works on an audio layer containing multiple voices.
