Adobe Lets Users Design and Edit Using ChatGPT

Adobe said it is adding a trio of its apps to OpenAI’s ChatGPT.

Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Express and Adobe Acrobat will be directly available on the artificial intelligence (AI) startup’s chatbot, Adobe announced Wednesday (Dec. 10), letting users ask ChatGPT to create designs or edit photos and PDFs.

“Adobe apps for ChatGPT build upon the company’s innovation in agentic AI, enabling everyone to easily enhance vacation photos, design event invitations and create polished, professional documents simply by describing what they want to achieve with their words,” the company said in a news release.

“By combining the power of Adobe’s creative technology with ChatGPT’s conversational interface, Adobe apps for ChatGPT make creativity accessible for everyone.”

To access Adobe’s apps in ChatGPT, users can just type the name of the app followed by an instruction. That means someone who wanted to blur the background of an image with Photoshop could type: “Adobe Photoshop, help me blur the background of this image.” From there, ChatGPT would automatically surface the app and use contextual understanding to guide the user through the action, the release said.

The launch follows OpenAI’s debut of the ChatGPT’s app-integration ecosystem in October. allowing ChatGPT users to use apps to get answers to their questions.

Adobe added that this launch builds on its efforts to develop innovations tied to agentic AI and the Model Context Protocol (MCP).

The MCP, PYMNTS wrote last month, is an open standard introduced by Anthropic late last year to make AI systems more useful in real-world business settings. At its base, MCP permits AI models such as Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini to securely connect to business tools, databases and workflows.

“This foundational integration layer allows AI to move beyond generating passive insights and become an active enterprise agent that retrieves live operational data, updates records, and performs actions within approved systems,” the report added.

Adobe announced in October that apps like Photoshop, Lightroom, Premiere and Illustrator would now include an AI assistant powered by agentic AI to deal with repeatable tasks and surface personalized recommendations.

As PYMNTS wrote at the time, this and other product rollouts demonstrate “how enterprise tech is doubling down” on AI in “workflows, infrastructure expansion, and developer enablement across creative, business and cloud ecosystems.”

Days later, Adobe held its annual conference, where it sought to reassure investors as the company faces competitors such as Canva and OpenAI’s Sora.

Shantanu Narayen, the firm’s CEO, told Bloomberg Television that his company’s stock is undervalued because the market is focused on semiconductors and training AI models.