Adobe Express, Acrobat and Photoshop are now available in ChatGPT, no subscription required.

Three Adobe apps -- Photoshop, Adobe Express and Acrobat -- are coming to ChatGPT, the company announced on Wednesday. The integration means anyone can edit their photos in the chatbot using the editing tools native to Adobe's apps, no ChatGPT or Adobe subscription required.

The Adobe apps in ChatGPT will feel familiar to anyone who has used them before: Photoshop can edit your photos, Express can create graphic designs and Acrobat can manage your PDFs. You can simply add the name of the Adobe app you want to use at the beginning of your prompt, bolded, to begin using the apps.

These apps are aimed at ChatGPT (not Photoshop) users. While the Adobe apps in ChatGPT will give you more editing firepower, they won't have the range or granular level of controls that, say, the regular version of Photoshop has -- something that professional creators want and need. It's likely going to be most useful for people who are already creating in ChatGPT and want to level up their work. While reviewing OpenAI's AI image generator in ChatGPT, I found it was fine for quick mock-ups but lacked essential creative controls. Using Photoshop fixes that.

(Disclosure: Ziff Davis, CNET's parent company, in April filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging it infringed Ziff Davis copyrights in training and operating its AI systems.)

When you edit photos with Photoshop in ChatGPT, you will see a small pop-up window; sliders will appear in the upper-right corner. This is where the hands-on control comes in. You can manually adjust those sliders to edit your photo. If you ask Photoshop to brighten a photo, for example, it will provide sliders to adjust the exposure. You can also apply visual effects, like glitch or glow, to your photos.