Adobe has launched a plugin that lets you use more than 70 of its creative tools directly inside ChatGPT, the popular AI chatbot from OpenAI. The plugin, available worldwide as of August 6, 2026, includes Photoshop, Premiere, Acrobat, Lightroom, Illustrator, and InDesign, among others (Engadget).

To turn it on, users open ChatGPT's settings menu, go to the plugins section, select the Adobe plugin, and then type @Adobe into the chat box. Adobe says the integration works best inside OpenAI's Codex coding app and its recently released Work suite.

The plugin works without an Adobe account, but logging in unlocks more features: saving your work between sessions, opening files stored in Adobe's cloud, and using Adobe's Firefly AI tools that can generate images and other content. Adobe imagines people editing photos, making marketing videos, and creating PDFs just by chatting.

This is not Adobe's first time putting its tools inside ChatGPT. At the end of 2025, the company brought Photoshop, Acrobat, and Adobe Express to the chatbot. The new plugin expands that from three apps to more than 70.

Adobe has also been building its own AI tools separately. In April 2026, the company launched the "Adobe for creativity" connector, which brought more than 50 professional tools into a single interface (Adobe Blog). That same month, Adobe introduced AI tools for corporate clients aimed at automating and personalizing digital marketing (Reuters). The ChatGPT plugin extends this approach by putting Adobe's tools inside another company's chat platform.

The relationship between Adobe and OpenAI has changed over time. In 2024, Adobe began allowing OpenAI's Sora video tool inside its own apps while exploring a broader partnership (Reuters). That same year, Adobe announced improved search and creation features for an Adobe Express tool within ChatGPT (Adobe News). By early 2025, Adobe had launched its own AI video tool, priced at $9.99 for 20 clips per month and $29.99 for 70 clips, directly competing with OpenAI (Reuters).

Forest Key, an Adobe vice president who oversees Firefly and AI efforts, said the ChatGPT plugin is not meant to replace Adobe's full applications. The plugin lets a chatbot trigger specific tool functions, but the complete experience of using Photoshop, Premiere, or InDesign still lives in Adobe's own apps. A useful comparison: the plugin is like a remote control that can operate certain features of a stereo system, but the stereo itself is far more capable when you sit down in front of it.

Adobe's recent business performance gives context for how fast these releases are coming. The company reported record results for its second fiscal quarter on June 11, 2026 (Adobe News), suggesting that investing in AI and outside partnerships has not hurt its core subscription revenue.

The broader context here is worth considering. Adobe is simultaneously competing with OpenAI in AI video generation and putting its own tools inside OpenAI's chatbot. That may sound contradictory, but it is a deliberate hedge. Adobe's greatest advantage has always been its creative tools and the file formats, asset libraries, and workflows people have built around them. By making those tools reachable through ChatGPT, Adobe makes sure that anyone who starts a creative project in a chat ends up using Adobe's products rather than a rival's. The risk is that over time, the chat itself becomes the main place people work, and Adobe's tools become something running quietly in the background that users never directly touch.

For creative professionals, the practical question is how much real work can be done through plain-language conversation. Editing a photo with a specific type of adjustment, generating a marketing video that matches a brand's look, and exporting a PDF with fillable forms are all tasks that a chat interface could simplify, if the underlying tools support it well enough. Whether 70-plus tools have been connected with enough detail for serious work, or just enough for quick demos, will determine whether this plugin becomes something people use every day or a passing curiosity.

Adobe has not announced separate pricing for the plugin beyond its existing Creative Cloud subscriptions. The plugin is available now.