Adobe is Adding Conversational AI Editing to Photoshop and Firefly Images. Is Video Next?

Teased last year at Adobe MAX in Los Angeles, Adobe has now officially rolled out the public beta release of its new conversational AI assistant in Photoshop. Conversational AI enhancements are also being added to the Adobe Firefly Image Editor as the push for greater AI integration continues to accelerate across all Adobe applications.

While not necessarily unique to Adobe’s suite of apps and AI tools, conversational AI is becoming more popular with all types of creators as a way to (possibly) speed up workflows and make fixes and edits more quickly and efficiently.

Let’s look at the new conversational AI enhancements coming to Photoshop and the Firefly Image Editor and see if we can guess if, or when, similar updates might come to Adobe’s video editing apps.

Adobe’s New Conversational AI Enhancements

As mentioned above, Adobe has had agentic AI as a roadmap goal for some time now, so this shouldn’t be shocking news. However, it is notable since this is a pretty major addition to the company’s flagship photo editor software.

Photoshop will now feature a new, conversational AI assistant that lets users interact through a chat-based interface to initiate automatic image updates or receive step-by-step guidance to reach their desired image output.

Adobe shares that this AI Assistant will understand a creator’s intent through natural conversations and perform basic photo editing tasks, such as adjusting lighting and colors, removing backgrounds, and creating crisp, final images with confidence.

Adobe is also adding new generative tools to the Firefly Image Editor, accessible via text-based prompts. Features like Generative Fill, Generative Remove, Generative Expand, Generative Upscale, and Remove Background can be used through quick conversations, allowing users to remove background distractions, replace or remove objects, or even change the color of an object.

Is Conversational AI Video Editing Next?

As we covered when it was announced the other week, Adobe has already introduced its new “Quick Cut” AI feature, which can be used in the Firefly Video Editor to auto-edit your b-roll into a structured first cut.

So, new, text-based, and quasi-conversational AI video editing elements are already here. It’s easy to say that more will be on the way, too, as we’ve seen AI features introduced in Photoshop and then find their way to Premiere in the past (like Generative Fill, for example).

However, it’s also usually the case that video editing, due to its processing-heavy nature, is being rolled out a bit more slowly and intentionally, so we’d expect these types of AI features to be introduced, but maybe not as drastically or dramatically as you might expect.

We’ll keep you updated as this technology continues to evolve and new features are rolled out soon.