Adobe and Google are expanding their partnership across creative apps, productivity tools and Google services, while Adobe and Google DeepMind explore new AI-powered Photoshop editing. The practical shift is broader access to each company’s tools and models, with a possible new image-editing workflow still at the exploration stage.
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What happened
Announced at Adobe MAX on 10 November, the partnership will bring Acrobat into Google Workspace through Drive and Gmail, and expand Adobe’s connections in Gemini and Gemini Enterprise. Adobe also plans to bring creative tools to AI Mode in Google Search.
Google’s latest imaging and video models will be available in Firefly, Photoshop, Premiere and Adobe Express; Google’s Gemini models will also help power Acrobat’s AI Assistant. Adobe says customers can already use models including Gemini Omni, Veo and Nano Banana in its creative tools. The companies say their DeepMind collaboration will explore customising a Google image model for Photoshop, potentially enabling near-real-time prompt-based edits and selectable variants. That work is exploratory, not a feature announcement with a launch date. Read the partnership announcement.
Why it matters
For creators and office teams, this is about bringing tools into the places where work already happens: editing PDFs from Google services, using Adobe features within Google’s AI experiences, and choosing Google models inside Adobe products. That could reduce the familiar shuffle between apps, though the announcement does not give dates for every integration.
The DeepMind work is the more experimental piece. Prompt-based Photoshop edits with variants could make iteration quicker, but it remains a possibility the companies are exploring, not a capability customers can rely on today.
Our read
This is a substantial distribution and model partnership, not one shiny button with a launch date attached. The immediate promise is choice: Adobe tools across more Google surfaces and Google models across Adobe’s creative suite. The intriguing Photoshop work deserves attention, with the sensible asterisk that it is still research and development.
What to watch
- When Acrobat integrations and Adobe’s expanded Gemini connections become available.
- Which Google models reach each Adobe app, and whether access varies by product or plan.
- Whether the DeepMind collaboration produces a working Photoshop feature, and how much control creators retain.
Discussion spark: Would you rather have AI models and creative tools integrated across the apps you already use, or keep them separate so each tool can be judged on its own?
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