Adobe puts Photoshop and Acrobat tools inside Gemini and Claude

Adobe has begun rolling out creative and document tools inside Google Gemini and Anthropic’s Claude, allowing users to edit images, build designs and handle PDFs through chatbot conversations rather than moving first into Adobe’s standalone applications. The expansion puts Photoshop, Lightroom, Adobe Express and Firefly capabilities into Gemini. Users can enhance or retouch individual images or batches, create variations sized for social media, work from Express templates, and search, organise and summarise Creative Cloud content. Adobe for Gemini began its global rollout on Sept. 24 and is available across Gemini plans. It requires both a Gemini account and an Adobe account, supports English only, and is unavailable in regions restricted by Adobe trade-compliance rules. Adobe said Gemini reaches more than one billion people each month. Its system can use conversational requests to handle tasks such as adjusting a product image’s lighting, colour and crop, preparing assets for marketing channels, or adapting an existing branded design for social media. The company also expanded its Claude offering by combining Acrobat with its existing creative-tools connector, which it renamed Adobe. The plugin now supplies more than 80 tools across Acrobat, Express, Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, Lightroom, InDesign and Adobe Stock, up from 50 tools when the Claude integration launched in April. As we reported in August, Anthropic had already released connectors that let Claude work alongside creative software, including Adobe Creative Cloud. The latest Adobe release adds Acrobat’s document functions to that earlier creative-tool access. Within Claude and Claude Code, users can delete, combine and split PDF pages; redact information; and convert or export documents into other formats. Acrobat’s interactive editor also lets them reorder pages, edit text, and add comments or highlights directly in Claude. Adobe has introduced a comparable interactive experience for Express. Its layer-based editor lets users alter individual images, copy, colours and fonts without regenerating an entire design, moving the interaction beyond describing a desired result in a prompt. Adobe for Claude is rolling out globally across Claude and Claude Code on desktop, mobile and web, subject to the same trade-compliance restrictions. It is available to guests and users on free or paid plans, although guest users receive a smaller set of tools. Signing in with, or creating, a free Adobe account provides broader capabilities and access to work across sessions; paid Creative Cloud users effectively have unlimited access to the available Claude tools. Neither the Gemini nor Claude integrations requires an additional fee or uses Adobe AI credits, according to Computerworld. Adobe plans to extend interactive editor controls beyond Acrobat and Express to applications including Photoshop, while retaining more complex features in its core applications. The Gemini launch extends a broader effort to place Adobe tools in AI-assistant and productivity platforms. Adobe had already brought tools to ChatGPT, Claude, Slack and Copilot before the Gemini release, positioning the chat interfaces as another way to reach people who may not have learned its conventional software workflows.