Adobe has begun integrating core features of Photoshop, Acrobat, and Adobe Express directly into ChatGPT—at no additional cost. This move represents the latest convergence of professional-grade creative tools with conversational AI, significantly lowering the barrier to entry for hundreds of millions of users worldwide in design, document editing, and image manipulation.
Adobe’s integration enables users to describe their desired outcomes in natural language, and Adobe’s applications—running within ChatGPT—will carry out edits, suggest appropriate tools, or hand off the task to full-featured web apps when deeper control is needed. The result is a hybrid workflow where ChatGPT interprets intent and handles automation, while Adobe delivers precision, structure, and creative depth.
“We’re excited to bring Photoshop, Adobe Express, and Acrobat directly into ChatGPT, combining our creative innovation with ChatGPT’s ease of use so that everyone can create effortlessly,” said David Wadhwani, President of Adobe Digital Media, in an official statement. “Now, hundreds of millions of people can edit with Photoshop using their own words, right within a platform they already use every day.” The new Photoshop, Acrobat, and Express apps became available for free to all ChatGPT users starting December 10, supporting desktop, web, and iOS. Android currently supports Adobe Express, with Photoshop and Acrobat coming soon. These integrations are built on OpenAI’s third-party app framework, launched in October, which already includes Canva, Spotify, Expedia, and Figma.
From now on, ChatGPT users can perform image editing, create animated assets, or manage and manipulate PDFs—all powered by Adobe’s core applications. Adobe describes this integration as both a showcase for its AI assistant and a gateway for newcomers to experience its creative tools without prior expertise. Ely Greenfield, CTO of Adobe’s Digital Media business, summarized the vision: users should be able to seamlessly “edit vacation photos, create event invitations, and convert documents” within ChatGPT, while retaining the option to switch to full versions of Photoshop or Acrobat when greater detail is required.
Photoshop users can upload images and request adjustments such as brightness correction, background removal, selective edits, or full stylistic transformations. ChatGPT translates these prompts into Photoshop operations and returns the edited image along with interactive controls. This integration is technically the most advanced among the three. Users can apply effects like charcoal sketch, glow, mosaic, halftone, duotone, or motion blur, and fine-tune exposure, highlights, shadows, and contrast using authentic Photoshop sliders.
Likewise, Adobe Express brings design generation and rapid visual editing into ChatGPT’s conversational flow. Users can request themed designs—such as birthday cards, posters, or social media graphics—and Express will generate options from its library of professional templates. According to Adobe, users will be able to “browse Adobe Express’s extensive collection of professionally designed templates to find the perfect fit for any occasion, customize text, swap images, animate designs, and iterate edits—all directly within the chat, without switching apps—to produce standout content for any purpose.” Meanwhile, Acrobat’s integration unlocks PDF workflows that traditionally required navigating a dedicated interface. Within ChatGPT, users can now edit or reformat text in any PDF, drag-and-drop to reorder and merge multiple documents, extract tables, text, or data, compress or convert files, and generate clean, high-quality exports.
This development means users no longer need to juggle multiple interfaces or memorize specific functions. Instead, they can simply describe their goals in conversation, and ChatGPT will coordinate the appropriate Adobe capabilities behind the scenes. It further democratizes tasks that once demanded software expertise—such as targeted image correction, layered design tweaks, or meticulous PDF cleanup—enabling beginners to achieve polished results and allowing professionals to accelerate routine steps they’d otherwise perform manually.
Moreover, users can explore creative directions through conversational prompts, compare multiple AI-generated variations, and make incremental adjustments instantly without breaking their workflow. For teams, this reduces bottlenecks: non-designers can prepare drafts before handing projects to specialists, who can then seamlessly open the same assets in full Adobe applications—with all edits preserved.
