Adobe announced new tools for Photoshop, Premiere and Lightroom on November 10 at its MAX conference in Miami Beach, including relighting for photos in Photoshop and a closed-eye fix in Lightroom.
Adobe said most of the tools are available today and a few are in beta. It hasn't specified which ones are in beta, so it is unclear whether the relighting and eye tools are open to everyone or limited to testers.
The same announcement carried a larger item. Adobe plans to let outside AI agents work inside its apps from early 2027. An agent, in this sense, is software that takes a multi-step request and carries it out on its own instead of waiting for a person to click through each step.
The two halves of the news point in different directions. Relighting and eye repair are rescue tools: they fix a photo after the shoot, which can spare a reshoot or an hour of manual retouching. They are useful, and they continue the years-long pattern of AI features arriving in Adobe's editing apps.
The agent plan is a structural change. Adobe's apps have been built around a person at the controls. Letting other companies' software drive them means Adobe is willing to share the interface, and possibly some of the customer relationship, in exchange for staying the place where the work gets done.
Which agents get in, and what they are allowed to change in a client's files, are the questions that will decide whether that trade pays off for Adobe or for the agent makers.