Adobe Adds AI Features to Photoshop, Premiere and Other Creative Apps

Adobe announced a batch of new AI features at its MAX 2026 event for creative apps like Photoshop, Premiere, Lightroom and Illustrator. The updates cover photo relighting, splitting audio tracks in videos, fixing closed eyes, and auto editing.

Photoshop gets a new Relight tool that can add and adjust light sources in photos without damaging the original image. The upgraded Remove tool now spots shadows and reflections left by objects and rebuilds the background. Premiere's Generative Media feature creates extra clips, sound effects and music right on the timeline, with models from Google, Kling, Runway and Luma. Its AI can also split dialogue, music and ambient sounds into separate audio tracks, making audio mixing much easier.

Lightroom adds an eye-opening feature that swaps closed eyes using other photos of the same person. Adobe also previewed MCP integration, which lets third-party AI agents work directly on local project files. The feature is planned to open to Creative Cloud users in early 2027.