Photoshop’s new AI assistant can rename all your layers so you don’t have to
By Katelyn Chedraoui | Published: 2025-10-30 16:00:00 | Source: CNET
There was a lot of artificial intelligence in Adobe Max Main title on Tuesday, but it was the Photoshop AI feature that inspired the loudest cheers.
Anyone who regularly uses Photoshop knows that it’s difficult to scroll through layer after layer, struggling to find exactly the layer you need. But with the upcoming tool, you can have the AI automatically label all your layers with a single prompt. It’s a great example of how AI can bring quality of life improvements when implemented well.
Renaming layers is just one of many things Adobe’s new AI assistants will be able to do. These chatbot-like tools will be added to Photoshop and Express. They focus on “conversational and agent” experiences – meaning you can ask your chatbot to make adjustments, and it can handle them autonomously.
AI Assistant in Express is available in public beta for individual Adobe accounts now (Enterprise and Teams plans are not yet available). AI in Photoshop is currently limited to a private beta, but you can sign up for a private beta waiting list now.
Express’s AI assistant is similar to using a chatbot. Once you launch the widget in the upper left corner, the conversation window pops up. You can ask the AI to change the color of an object or remove an annoying item. While power users may feel comfortable making these adjustments manually, an AI assistant may be more appealing to less experienced users and people working under a time crunch.
Adobe Express is also getting an AI assistant.
Also announced Tuesday was Project Moonlight, a new platform in beta on Adobe’s AI hub, Firefly. It’s a new tool that she hopes will serve as a creative partner. With your permission, it uses your data from Adobe platforms and social media accounts to help you create content. For example, you can ask it to come up with 20 ideas for what to do with your latest Lightroom photos based on your most successful Instagram posts in the past.
These AI efforts represent a range of what conversational editing could look like, Mike Polner, Adobe Firefly’s vice president of product marketing for creators, said in an interview.
“One end of the spectrum is (to) write a message and say, ‘Make my hat blue.’ That’s too simplistic,” Polner said. “With Project Moonlight, it can understand and explore your context and help you come up with new ideas and then help you analyze the content you already have,” Polner said.
This is what the chat interface in Project Moonlight might look like.
Although these AI assistants won’t be the “everything machines” as ChatGPT or Gemini claim, it’s a glaring sign that Adobe’s AI revolution is moving forward. Its focus is on agentic AI, e.g Much of the artificial intelligence industryIt aims to convince people to delegate tasks to artificial intelligence.
In a recent Adobe survey of 16,000 global creators, 86% said they use creative AI. More than three-quarters of respondents (80%) said that new generation AI helped them create content they otherwise could not have produced. The new statistics align with the growing popularity of generative media tools, such as AI-powered image and video generators, with newer models such as OpenAI Sora and Google Nano Banana It is spreading quickly this year.
Adobe has been working on AI for a while. This year, Adobe introduced the first mobile applications based on artificial intelligence Photoshop, firefly and A new video editor called Premiere. Professional photographers, designers, and illustrators are Adobe’s core customers Not all of them are sold Adobe’s AI ambitions raise concerns about AI Legitimacy, Energy use And morals.
Agent AI assistants are just the tip of the iceberg of all the news Adobe dropped this week. For more, see Firefly’s New generative sound and music tools and Adobe’s cutting-edge research projects for photography and artificial intelligence.
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