Photoshop can now relight a photo after it was taken. Relight, released at Adobe’s MAX conference in Miami on 10 November, lets you place up to three virtual lights on an image and change each one’s position, colour, intensity and diffusion.
It arrived with a batch of tools that are available today, and with a preview of something further off: AI agents from other companies working directly inside Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere and After Effects. That part goes to a private beta in early 2027.
Relight strips the lighting already in the picture and builds its own, on a separate layer that leaves the original pixels alone. Adobe’s notes on the feature from its beta, which opened on 28 September, add two things worth knowing before you rely on it. It needs an internet connection, and each time you press Done to render the result it used 30 generative credits. While you drag the lights around you see a low-resolution preview; the full-resolution version is produced at the end.
The rest of the release is listed in Adobe’s announcement. In Photoshop, the Remove tool now also clears what an object leaves behind, such as its shadow and reflection, Quick Compare gives a before-and-after slider, and Generative Restyle turns a typed edit into sliders you can adjust. Premiere’s Color Mode, its rebuilt grading workspace, is out of the beta it entered in April, joined by audio tools that separate overlapping voices and split a recording into its sources. A Generative Remove tool for erasing objects from video is in beta. Lightroom gains one-tap Blemish Removal on desktop, a Glow effect, and Open Eyes in beta, which fixes a blink using another photo of the same person.
Adobe says the new Creative Cloud features are generally available from the day of the announcement.
The agent preview works through local MCP connections. An outside agent opens the project on your own computer and edits the native file, so layers, vectors, bins and sequences stay editable and you can take over by hand at any point. If the same agent is connected to Google Drive or Slack, it can pull a brief from a document, do the work in Adobe’s tools and post the result to colleagues. Adobe’s announcement names no specific agents, only that they are the user’s choice.
Adobe’s own Creative Agent, meanwhile, now runs in Premiere, Illustrator, InDesign, After Effects and Frame.io, where it can apply an effect to every clip in a sequence or track a masked subject through a shot. In Photoshop the assistant stays in the beta app. Two image models from Topaz Labs, which Adobe acquired, Wonder 4 and Image HDR, are sold separately.
MAX runs until 12 November.
