Adobe Firefly
Adobe’s own AI app for images, video, vector graphics and sound, with an AI Assistant (beta)
Adobe’s own generative app, which makes and edits images, video, vector graphics and sound effects from text prompts. Adobe: “Explain the image you want to create, and Firefly will generate it, matching your input.” Adobe: “Easily translate your audio and video clips into various languages while preserving the original voice and pitch.” Its AI Assistant can use partner models from other companies as well as Adobe’s own. Firefly also has an AI Assistant (beta) that plans and carries out multi-step brand work from a conversation, and Firefly Creative Production for edits in bulk.
Partner models
generative models from other companies, such as Google’s Gemini, offered inside Adobe apps
Lets people pick a model from another company instead of Adobe’s own inside Adobe’s generative tools. Adobe: “Partner models are not developed by Adobe.” Adobe: “The latest update introduces partner models for Generate images, Generate video, Firefly video editor, Boards, and Firefly Graph in Adobe Firefly, as well as Adobe Express, Adobe Illustrator, and Adobe Photoshop.” On some plans, admins can manage access to partner models in the Adobe Admin Console.
Photoshop
its generative tools, Neural Filters, and AI assistants that edit from a typed request
Adds, removes, replaces and extends parts of an image from a typed prompt. Adobe on Generative Fill: "Add, remove, or replace objects using natural language prompts." On Harmonize: "Harmonize automatically adjusts the lighting, colors, shadows, and details for realistic results." Photoshop also has Neural Filters, which change a portrait’s expression, age or gaze, an AI Assistant (early beta) and an AI Assisted Editor (beta) that edit from typed requests, and Select Subject.
- Where to check the switch
- No switch found — look in your Adobe settings or ask your administrator
Illustrator
its generative tools for vector graphics, patterns and text, and AI Assistant (Beta)
Creates and edits vector artwork and text from typed prompts. Adobe: "Concept to Vector lets you transform raster images into editable vector artwork using text prompts." Adobe: "Prompt to Edit lets you edit generated artwork by adding, removing, recoloring, or replacing elements using text prompts." Its other tools include Text to Vector Graphic, Generative Shape Fill, Generative Recolor and Rewrite, which generates and translates text. Illustrator (Beta) also has an AI Assistant that reads the open document and runs multi-step production work.
- Where to check the switch
- No switch found — look in your Adobe settings or ask your administrator
InDesign
its generative tools for images and text, automatic alt text, and AI Assistant
Generates images and text inside a layout, and writes alt text for images. Adobe: "Generate Alt Text automatically when you place images." InDesign also has an AI Assistant, a chat agent that carries out multi-step work in a document.
Premiere
its AI Assistant, generative video tools, and AI for masking, transcripts, colour, audio and footage search
Organises a project and builds an initial edit from a plain-language request. Adobe: "Premiere AI Assistant allows you to use natural language prompts to ask the AI Assistant to perform tasks such as organizing media, preparing footage, and assembling an initial edit directly within Premiere (beta)." Premiere also uses AI to extend and generate clips, to pick out and track people and objects (Object Mask), to transcribe dialogue for Text-Based Editing, to correct colour (Auto Color), to clean up and analyse voices (Enhance Speech and cloud-based AI voice features), and to search footage by what it shows (media intelligence).
- Where to check the switch
- No switch found — look in your Adobe settings or ask your administrator
After Effects
its AI Assistant (beta), and AI tools that pick out a subject in video and track it
Works on an After Effects project from a plain-language request. Adobe: “The AI Assistant is a beta feature in Adobe After Effects that helps you work on your project using natural language, instead of following in-app workflows or manually navigating menus.” Among its listed tasks: “Explain, restructure, rename, or color-code project items.” and “Generate videos from reference images or text descriptions with Adobe Firefly and partner models.” After Effects also uses AI in Object Matte and Roto Brush, which select a subject in footage and follow it from frame to frame.
- Where to check the switch
- No switch found — look in your Adobe settings or ask your administrator
Lightroom
and Camera Raw: AI masks, noise reduction, lens blur, generative removal, and AI retouching of people
Lightroom and Camera Raw edit photos with a set of AI-powered tools, including Denoise, Raw Details, Super Resolution, reflection and distracting-people removal, Lens Blur, Generative Remove and AI masks for subjects and skies. Adobe: "When a photo has AI-powered edit settings, the AI Edit Status button is enabled." Adobe: "The AI Edit Status button is available on Adobe Camera Raw, Lightroom on desktop, Lightroom Classic, Lightroom on mobile, and Lightroom on the web." On mobile and in Camera Raw, AI also finds faces and features on the people in a photo to remove blemishes and retouch them.
- Where to check the switch
- No switch found — look in your Adobe settings or ask your administrator
Adobe Express
its AI Assistant (beta), generative tools, and the AI Assistant in Adobe Express Photos
A conversational agent in Adobe Express that creates and edits designs from a plain-language request. Adobe: “AI Assistant is a beta feature in Adobe Express now available for testing and feedback.” Adobe: “You can generate designs, restyle images, fix layouts, edit on brand-content, and more.” Adobe: “You stay in control and can switch between AI-powered and manual editing at any time.” Adobe Express Photos has its own AI Assistant that edits photos from a typed request or with one click.
Characterizer
in Character Animator, turns artwork into an animated puppet
Builds an animated puppet from artwork. Adobe: "Characterizer, powered by Adobe Sensei, generates a stylized Character Animator puppet in seconds."
- Where to check the switch
- No switch found — look in your Adobe settings or ask your administrator
Adobe Sensei
suggests keywords in Adobe Stock for photos that contributors upload for sale
For people selling their work on Adobe Stock, suggests up to 25 keywords for each upload. Adobe warns about relying on them: "For example, Adobe Sensei struggles to recommend all the right keywords for more complex scenarios, such as a photo of a multigenerational family at a dinner table."
- Where to check the switch
- No switch found — look in your Adobe settings or ask your administrator
