MCP, AI and Adobe Creative Tool Experiments

Adobe has been doing a lot of work over the past year and a half, integrating generative AI functionality inside their tools, with things like Generative Fill in Photoshop, Generative Remove in Lightroom and Generative Extend in Premiere Pro. However, the world of AI is much larger than just Generative AI and video/image generation. Specifically, agentic AI and more general-purpose AI with MCP (such as Claude / ChatGPT) provide a much larger opportunity to help creatives across their entire workflow.

There have been a bunch of experiments from the community (including me) around integrating this type of AI with Adobe tools using MCP. This post provides an overview of those experiments, with the hope that it drives awareness and prompts discussion and thinking about how this technology can be useful for the creative community.

I will update from time to time as more experiments come out.

Tools

Adobe Photoshop

• Use Claude to Rename Layers based on content (Mike Chambers)
• Have Claude create an Instagram Post that looks like a Polaroid, and write a tutorial on how to do it (Mike Chambers)
• Use AI / MCP Iterate on a design in Photoshop (Paul Trani)
• Duplication, randomization to jumpstart a Photoshop design (Paul Trani)
• Batch Remove background in Photoshop (Howard Pinsky)
• Have AI Control Photoshop using MCP (Kris Kashtanova)
• Have AI Rename Layer in Photoshop (Howard Pinsky)
• Use AI with Photoshop Harmonize (Luke Choice)
• Rename Layers in Photoshop (Luke Choice)
• Have AI help edit content, with a custom plugin and Flux Context (Rob de Winter)
• Use AI to Batch Generate Photoshop content (from PSD template) (Mike Chambers)
• Automate content translation using Photoshop templates (Mike Chambers)
• Have Claude Clean up Layer Names based on content (Mike Chambers)
• Use Claude as a way to control Photoshop via Prompts (Mike Chambers)
• Use AI to identify and Fix design accessibility issues #1 (Mike Chambers)
• Use AI to identify and Fix design accessibility issues #2 (Mike Chambers)
• Use Claude to Control Photoshop (Japanese) (てる@プロンプトマフィア)
• Have Claude follow a tutorial and control Photoshop (Mike Chambers)
• Give AI Ability to “see” content within Photoshop #1 (Mike Chambers)
• Give AI Ability to “see” content within Photoshop #2 (Mike Chambers)

Adobe Premiere Pro

• Automating Project setup using clip metadata (Jason Levine)
• Use AI to automate video file conversion and project creation (Jason Levine)
• Use AI to automate project creation based on video clip creation date (Mike Chambers)
• Create Music Video from Random Clips (Mike Chambers)

Adobe Illustrator

• Use AI to clean up Illustrator documents (Eugen Pflüger)
• Building an MCP server for Adobe Illustrator with AI (Vladimir Petkovic)

Adobe Lightroom

• Use Claude AI to organize Photoshops (Wes McDermott)

Adobe AfterEffects

• Creating MCP server for After Effects to automate tasks with Claude (Wes McDermott)
• Explore using AI / Claude for project setup, and generate animations (James Hurlbut)
• After Effects MCP Hackathon Project with AI / MCP (James Hurlbut)
• Free Camera Shake Rig Plugin for After Effects using AI / MCP (Vladimir Petkovic)

Multiple Apps

Photoshop / Premiere Pro Create Slide Show of Photographs (Mike Chambers)

Resources / Libraries

adb-mcp

Open Source proof of concept project (by me) to enable AI control of Adobe tools (Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Premiere) by providing an interface to LLMs via the MCP protocol https://www.mikechambers.com/blog/post/2025-06-06-exploring-ai-integration-with-adobe-photoshop-indesign-and-premiere-pro/

Media Utils

MCP Server that provides audio / video file processing and analysis (wrapping FFMPEG). https://github.com/mikechambers/media-utils-mcp