Adobe comes to Google Gemini and expands Claude with Acrobat

On September 24, 2026, Adobe made its popular programs available directly in Google's AI chatbot Gemini. This covers tools from Photoshop, Lightroom, Adobe Express and Firefly, which can now be used by all Gemini users, regardless of their plan.

In practice, this means you can ask Gemini to enhance a photo, create a social media post or adjust a design without opening Photoshop or the other Adobe programs yourself. According to Adobe, you can for example upload product photos and ask Adobe to optimize lighting and color, crop them consistently and create a collection ready for an online store, as well as create new versions adapted for social media with the same branding.

This should be seen as Adobe's attempt to keep up with a development where many users start their work inside a chatbot rather than in a standalone program. Many of those people will never open Photoshop or Lightroom themselves, but they might ask Gemini to fix a photo or make a flyer, and now Adobe can handle that work, which according to industry insiders can help Adobe compete with services such as Canva.

To get started, open Personal Intelligence in Gemini, select Adobe under connected apps and sign in; you can create a free Adobe account if you don't already have one.

At the same time, Adobe has expanded its existing plugin for Anthropic's chatbot Claude. Here, the PDF program Acrobat has now been added for the first time, so the combined plugin covers more than 80 professional tools across Acrobat, Express, Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, Lightroom, InDesign, Adobe Stock and more, gathered in the same Claude conversation.

In addition to the Acrobat tools themselves, Adobe has also introduced new interactive editing features, so you can both describe a result and let the plugin do the work, and also go in yourself to edit PDF files and adjust Express designs.

For ordinary users, the news means it becomes easier to do photo editing, marketing materials and PDF tasks directly in a chat, without having to learn several separate programs. Adobe has stressed that this is only the beginning and that more features are expected to follow in both Gemini and Claude.

What this means for you

If you already use Gemini or Claude, you can now get images, designs and PDF files edited without opening Photoshop, Lightroom or Acrobat separately. This is especially useful if you create marketing materials, product photos or other document work in your workday. If you want to try it, find Personal Intelligence in Gemini and connect your Adobe account, or in Claude check whether the Acrobat tools are now part of your existing Adobe plugin. If you don't have an Adobe account already, you can create one for free.