There has been a lot of excitement over the past week or so with the release of Google’s Gemini 2.5 Flash image model (Nano Banana). The model provides some of the best quality and ways to control the output (maybe the best we have seen thus far). As usually happens with any big generative AI model release, a fresh wave of clickbaity “Photoshop is dead” posts has followed. This week was no different, though the claims were louder and more frequent, on par with the level of excitement around Gemini 2.

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.

As I expect most people in the tech industry have been doing, I’ve been spending a lot of time lately thinking about AI and its impact. As I work with the community for Adobe, I’ve specifically been thinking about how it will affect the creative industry, and its implications for Adobe and Adobe’s creative tools. Adobe makes industry leading creative tools such as Photoshop, Illustrator and Premiere Pro, and I have been curious about exploring how / if these tools fit in within an AI first world.