Adobe is bringing tools from Photoshop, Lightroom, Adobe Express and Firefly into Google Gemini, and it has added Acrobat to its plugin for Anthropic’s Claude. Both are rolling out globally now, according to Adobe’s blog post.
Adobe in Gemini works on every Gemini plan. Users describe what they want and, in Adobe’s words, it “orchestrates the right tools and steps to get you there.” Adobe’s examples include fixing lighting, color and crops across a batch of product photos, turning one design into versions for social channels, and personalizing Express templates for a campaign. To connect it, go to Personal Intelligence, select Adobe under connected apps and sign in with an Adobe account, or create a free one. Unlike the Claude plugin, the Gemini connector has no guest access, Computerworld reported.
Adobe calls the launch “the first step in our journey with Google” and says more tools will follow. “Now, anyone can create, edit and bring their ideas to life right in the chat,” said Neal Pancholi, a managing director for global partnerships at Google.
The Claude update is the bigger one. Adobe’s connector launched in Claude in April with about 50 creative tools. It has been renamed simply Adobe and now has more than 80, spanning Acrobat, Express, Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, Lightroom, InDesign and Adobe Stock, in Claude and Claude Code on desktop, mobile and web.
The new Acrobat tools can delete, combine or split pages, redact sensitive information, and convert or export PDFs. A new interactive editor lets users reorder pages, edit text and add comments or highlights inside the chat, and a Document Review skill has Claude mark up a document with recommendations. Express designs get a layer-based editor, so images, copy, colors and fonts can be changed one at a time without regenerating the whole design.
Guests can use a smaller set of tools, while signing in with an Adobe account unlocks the full plugin with higher usage limits. Existing users should be updated automatically, though Adobe’s help page says to reconnect if that doesn’t happen. The same page notes the plugin isn’t optimized for enterprise use and doesn’t support EDU accounts. Using the tools costs nothing extra and doesn’t draw on Adobe’s AI credits, according to Computerworld.
Adobe already offers similar connectors for ChatGPT, Slack and Copilot, as 9to5Mac noted. “Our belief is that we want to be wherever the user is,” Deepti Pradeep, Adobe’s senior director of agentic AI, told Computerworld. Adobe plans to bring the interactive editors to more apps, including Photoshop, while keeping the most complex features in its flagship apps.
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