# Adobe is testing how well AI agents can use editing tools like a Photoshop professional would

> Source: <https://the-decoder.com/adobe-is-testing-how-well-ai-agents-can-use-editing-tools-like-a-photoshop-professional-would/>
> Published: 2026-11-01 14:56:44+00:00

Adobe Research and UC San Diego built EditAgent, an AI system that edits images more like a Photoshop pro. Instead of retrying the same general-purpose editor over and over, the agent picks the right specialized tool for each task and lets a standard language model choose the best result based on measured image data. The approach works, but it needs about ten times the compute.

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