Exploring AI Integrations with Adobe Photoshop, InDesign and Premiere Pro

Summary

Exploring AI Integrations with Adobe Photoshop, InDesign and Premiere Pro June 6, 2025 As I expect most people in the tech industry have been doing, I’ve been spending a lot of time lately thinking about AI and its impact. As I work with the community for Adobe, I’ve specifically been thinking about how it will affect the creative industry, and its implications for Adobe and Adobe’s creative tools. Adobe makes industry leading creative tools such as Photoshop, Illustrator and Premiere Pro, and I have been curious about exploring how / if these tools fit in within an AI first world. While I definitely have some thoughts on that (I’ll save that for another post), I wanted to start with the basics and explore how and if Adobe tools could be integrated with AI tools. Questions like: Can they be integrated with and controlled by AI? What types of roles and tasks would it be useful for? Could AI be used as a glorified scripting language? Could it be used to do the actual creation (similar to generative AI)? What are the barriers given current technical constraints to adoption? There has been a lot of buzz around MCP servers over the past couple of months with integrations with other creative tools / frameworks like Blender and Unity, that showed that AI could be used to drive these types of creative workflows. I started to look at whether it would be possible to hook up Adobe apps such as Photoshop in a similar way and it turns out that yes, you can! And even better, everything needed is publicly available. Adobe Creative App MCP Server adb-mcp Introducing adb-mcp, an open source project that provides MCP servers to enable AI clients and agents to control Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe InDesign. https://github.com/mikechambers/adb-mcp Currently, there are plugins for three Adobe apps: Adobe Photoshop : Has the most functionality exposed Adobe Premiere Pro : UXP support is in beta, and thus mostly just basic functionality is exposed Adobe InDesign : Has exte...