Adobe added a wide range of AI features to major products including Photoshop, Premiere, Illustrator and InDesign.

At its annual MAX event, Adobe expanded AI functions in its creative tool Firefly. It also unveiled the Model Context Protocol, or MCP, to let chatbots such as ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini use Adobe features.

According to the company, the Firefly app introduced Builder, a prototyping tool, in a private beta. Users can use Builder to create designs that show their ideas.

This means Firefly is moving in earnest into the territory of Figma, a cloud-based design tool, TechCrunch reported.

Adobe also added a tool to create brand-aligned graphs and an editing tool that changes only part of an image while leaving other objects intact.

Firefly's new AI video tool creates videos by combining elements such as clips, images and sound effects.

Adobe made the agent remain always on and operate before the user asks. The move is aimed at helping the agent better understand work context.

Photoshop adds a feature that changes lighting in photos. Styles created with prompts can be adjusted with sliders.

Premiere adds a professional-grade colour grading system and a feature that removes objects from video. Lightroom added a feature to correct closed eyes and tools including blemish removal.

Topaz Labs, which Adobe recently acquired, introduced two image models. Wonder 4 increases resolution and removes noise. ImageHDR converts regular images to HDR.

Adobe has provided some product functions by integrating with ChatGPT and Claude. At this event, it released a local MCP and moved to open more Creative Cloud app functions.

Deepa Subramaniam (디파 수브라마니암), an Adobe vice president, said, "We are still figuring out where, when and how to draw the line." She added, "We have no intention of limiting the scope of MCP disclosure."

She said Adobe will first open functions in Illustrator, Photoshop, After Effects and Premiere, then expand the scope as it sees how users use them.

Dylan Field (딜런 필드), co-founder of Adobe rival Figma, said at an event in India last month that MCP is not a perfect standard and is more favourable to frontier AI companies.