Quick Facts
- Adobe’s Firefly AI Assistant is now in public beta for Premiere, Illustrator, InDesign, and Frame.io, with After Effects in private beta.
- The assistant can access 60+ professional tools across Adobe’s suite, including Generative Fill, Auto Tone, and Remove Background.
- Adobe is also developing Project Graph, a visual node-based system for building and sharing automated AI workflows across Creative Cloud.
Adobe is bringing its Firefly AI Assistant to Premiere, Illustrator, InDesign, and Frame.io as part of a public beta launched June 18. The assistant, which entered public beta in Photoshop on April 27, now spans most of Adobe’s core Creative Cloud lineup.
The assistant lets users describe an outcome in plain language. It then selects the right tools, runs them in sequence, and returns a fully editable result in Adobe’s native file formats.
What the Assistant Can Do
In Premiere Pro, the assistant can sort assets into bins, batch-rename clips, identify interview questions, and add timeline markers. In Illustrator, it can reorganize layers, check for missing fonts, generate 50 versioned files from a spreadsheet, and run pre-flight checks before a file goes to print.
In Photoshop, the assistant caught a date error in a demo, flagging that June 17th was a Wednesday, not a Thursday. Adobe says the assistant draws from more than 60 tools across its suite, with more tools rolling out over time.
“We want creators to tell us the destination and let the Firefly assistant bring the tools to you right in the conversation,” said Alexandru Costin, Vice President of AI and Innovation at Adobe.
User Control Stays Central
Adobe’s pitch centers on keeping the creator in charge. The assistant executes tasks but users can step in at any point to adjust direction or outputs. Final files stay in Adobe’s native formats and remain fully editable.
That design reflects what creators say they want. In an Adobe survey of more than 16,000 creators worldwide, 85% said the final creative decision should always remain theirs, even as 75% described AI as integrated or essential to how they work.
Two-thirds of Photoshop users reported using the Generative Fill feature every day during the beta period. More than 70% of creators say they are excited about agentic AI’s potential to support their creative work.
Project Graph Adds Visual Workflow Building
Alongside the assistant, Adobe is developing Project Graph, a node-based visual editor. Users can wire together AI models, Adobe tools, and effects into reusable templates called capsules. Those capsules can be shared across teams.
Where the Firefly AI Assistant takes instructions through conversation, Project Graph gives teams a visual system for designing and automating multi-step workflows. Adobe has not announced a release date for Project Graph.
Business Implications
For creative teams at software and technology companies, the assistant addresses a real operational cost: time spent on repetitive production tasks. Batch renaming, layer management, pre-flight checks, and asset organization consume hours that could go toward higher-order work.
The ability to generate 50 versioned files from a spreadsheet is a direct shot at the kind of manual asset production that slows down marketing and product teams. If the beta holds up under real workloads, Adobe’s assistant could reduce the headcount or contractor hours needed to move a creative project from brief to delivery.
Adobe first announced the Photoshop AI assistant in closed beta at Adobe MAX in October 2025, where more than 10,000 creative professionals attended in Los Angeles. The June expansion marks the broadest rollout yet across the Creative Cloud platform.
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