Photoshop's AI assistant is making its way to the desktop

Image: Adobe Adobe has announced that it's bringing its AI "creative agent" to the desktop version of Photoshop, after it debuted on the web version of the app earlier this year. While the software is still in beta, it shows that the company is moving forward with its plans to add an increasing number of AI-powered features into its photo editing software. The goal of the assistant is to provide a chat interface that lets you ask the software to carry out various tasks for you. These could be relatively simple menial tasks – adjusting a photo's brightness, organizing layers, applying edits to make the subject stand out – or relatively complex tasks, like figuring out error messages, coming up with captions for your photo for social media, or identifying fonts in an image. Image: Adobe When we spoke to a Photoshop project manager at Adobe's Max conference last year after the feature's announcement, they made it clear the company viewed the AI tool as a way to autom