Adobe plugs Photoshop and Acrobat directly into ChatGPT

The news

On December 10, 2025, Adobe and OpenAI switched on native ChatGPT apps for three of Adobe’s biggest products: Photoshop, Acrobat, and Adobe Express. The integrations let you tell ChatGPT what you want—“Adobe Photoshop, blur the background of this image” or “Adobe Acrobat, merge these PDFs”—and then watch as embedded Adobe interfaces carry out the edit right inside the chat. Adobe says the goal is to remove app‑switching friction while showcasing its tools to a much larger audience. Reuters, The Verge, TechCrunch.

ChatGPT window showing an image upload and Photoshop-style sliders for brightness and blur, alongside a chat instruction that triggered the edit

How it works inside ChatGPT

OpenAI’s “Apps in ChatGPT” framework (launched in October 2025) lets services plug UI components directly into a conversation. You can call an app by name, or ChatGPT can suggest one when relevant. The first time you use an app, you connect your account and see what data may be shared. Apps can include interactive elements—like sliders, maps, or file pickers—so you can refine results without leaving the chat. OpenAI blog, The Verge.

Pricing: Adobe says Photoshop, Acrobat, and Express are free to use within ChatGPT at launch. You’ll need an Adobe account to enable each app. Reuters.
Availability: Desktop, web, and iOS today. On Android, Adobe Express is live; Photoshop and Acrobat are “coming soon.” Reuters, The Verge.

What you can actually do (today)

At‑a‑glance features in ChatGPT

App	Typical tasks now supported in ChatGPT	Notes
Photoshop	Adjust brightness/contrast/exposure; blur or remove backgrounds; apply creative effects; edit specific sections	Embedded UI can surface sliders for fine control. Not all desktop features are present. The Verge, TechCrunch.
Acrobat	Edit text in PDFs; merge, compress, convert, or extract text/tables	Early Acrobat GPT work laid the groundwork for today’s app. The Verge, Adobe Community.
Adobe Express	Generate and edit designs; pull from existing templates; animate elements	Designed for conversational creation with quick hand‑offs to the full app. TechCrunch, Adobe newsroom.

Why this matters

For many teams, ChatGPT is becoming a universal command line for work. Embedding Photoshop, Acrobat, and Express turns that command line into a creative and document console, shrinking the time from idea to asset.

Scale and reach: OpenAI says ChatGPT now serves 800M+ weekly users; putting Adobe’s tools where those users already are is a distribution play as much as a UX upgrade. OpenAI DevDay 2025.

800M+

Weekly ChatGPT usersSource: openai-devday-2025

Familiar controls in a new place: Sliders and pickers bring the comfort of native apps to the chat surface, lowering the learning curve for non‑experts. The Verge.
Document productivity: Adobe loves to remind us there are trillions of PDFs in circulation; conversational Acrobat means less “download‑open‑edit‑reupload” grind. Adobe.

PDFs in circulationSource: adobe-2025-acrobat

A few caveats and guardrails

Feature scope: These are streamlined, in‑chat versions—not full desktop suites. For advanced workflows you’ll hand off to the native apps. The Verge, TechCrunch.
Account link required: You must register/sign in with Adobe to enable each app in ChatGPT. Reuters.
Discovery vs. ads: OpenAI recently disabled ad‑like app promotions after user pushback; app suggestions are expected to return with clearer controls. The Verge.
Privacy: When you connect an app, ChatGPT shows what data may be shared; apps must publish clear privacy policies and collect only what they need. Review the app’s policy before linking accounts. OpenAI blog.
Content authenticity: Adobe’s Content Credentials system (and its new Content Authenticity app) adds provenance to exported media; Adobe hasn’t specified whether edits done entirely inside ChatGPT will automatically carry credentials on export. If provenance matters, add credentials when you move into the full app. Adobe Help, Adobe Blog.

What this unlocks for teams

Marketing “one‑chat sprints”: Draft a one‑pager with ChatGPT, “Adobe Express, build a matching social graphic,” then “Acrobat, compress to under 5MB.”
Sales enablement: “Acrobat, extract the pricing table from page 7 and export to CSV,” followed by “Express, make a clean one‑slide summary.”
Creative QA: “Photoshop, remove the color cast and add a subtle vignette; show intensity slider.” Then hand off to the desktop app for layer‑level edits.

TipHelpful prompt patterns

“Adobe Photoshop, apply a soft background blur to the subject portrait. Keep the eyes sharp. Show me sliders so I can tweak.”
“Adobe Acrobat, merge these three PDFs in this order, extract any tables to a .csv, and give me both files.”
“Adobe Express, pull a holiday‑sale template in our brand colors and animate the call‑to‑action for Instagram Stories.”

A marketer’s desk with ChatGPT on a laptop orchestrating Express design edits and Acrobat table extraction, representing a fast, multi-step workflow in one chat

The bigger picture

Adobe has been steering its apps toward agentic, conversational workflows all year—shipping an AI Assistant in Express and previewing a Photoshop assistant that can understand layers and automate repetitive tasks. Bringing those capabilities into ChatGPT extends that strategy beyond Adobe’s walls and into the broader AI workplace stack. For OpenAI, it’s further proof that ChatGPT is becoming a place where work actually gets done—not just drafted. TechCrunch, Adobe newsroom.