ChatGPT can now use Adobe apps to edit your photos and PDFs for free

Adobe is giving ChatGPT users some new capabilities for designing and editing their work without having to switch apps. New apps for Photoshop, Acrobat, and Adobe Express are launching today directly in ChatGPT, allowing users to create designs or adjust photos and PDFs by describing what they want.

The Adobe apps are free to use, and can be activated by typing the name of the app alongside an uploaded file and conversational instruction, such as “Adobe Photoshop, help me blur the background of this image.” ChatGPT users won’t have to specify the name of the app again during the same conversation to make additional changes. Depending on the instructions, Adobe’s apps may offer a selection of results to choose from, or provide a UI element that the user can manually control — such as Photoshop sliders for adjusting contrast and brightness.

The ChatGPT apps don’t provide the full functionality of Adobe’s desktop software. Adobe says the Photoshop app can edit specific sections of images, apply creative effects, and adjust image settings like brightness, contrast and exposure. Acrobat in ChatGPT can edit existing PDFs, compress and convert other documents into a PDF format, extract text or tables, and merge multiple files together.

The Adobe Express app allows ChatGPT users to both generate and edit designs, such as posters, invitations, and social media graphics. Everything in the design can be edited without leaving ChatGPT, from replacing text or images, to altering colors and animating specific sections. If ChatGPT users do want more granular control over a project they started in the chatbot, those photos, PDFs, and designs can be opened directly in Adobe’s native apps to pick up where they left off.

Adobe’s ChatGPT apps are available globally across desktop, web, and iOS. The Adobe Express ChatGPT app can also be used on Android devices, with Android support for Photoshop and Acrobat “coming soon,” according to Adobe.

Bringing Adobe’s Creative Cloud apps directly into ChatGPT could help both services to fend off competition from Google’s Gemini AI, which introduced its own image editing capabilities in May. This is also the latest step in Adobe’s plan to roll out agentic AI solutions that allow its creative apps to be used more conversationally, removing some of the skill barriers required for photo editing and design.