Impact on Products

Photoshop turns 35: How Adobe Research helps keep creatives on the cutting edge

35 years of Photoshop! From early masking tools to today’s generative AI, Adobe Research has fueled breakthroughs that push the boundaries of creativity—turning bold ideas into everyday magic for creators worldwide.

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Agentic Design Review System: Teaching AI to review graphic designs the way experts do 

Our Agentic Design Review System (Agentic-DRS) is an experimental multi-agent framework from Adobe Research for holistic graphic design evaluation. Specialized AI agents assess typography, color harmony, alignment, spacing, composition, and more, coordinated by a meta-agent. 

Adobe Research at Summit 2026: Agentic AI for orchestrating customer experiences 

Adobe Research was behind some of the most exciting announcements, sessions, and sneak previews at Adobe Summit - from the unveiling of new tools that help marketers understand their customers’ behavior and design customer experiences at scale to hands-on agentic AI sessions.

Our evolving relationship with artificial intelligence: Interview with Brano Kveton

What happens when AI doesn’t just respond—but learns and improves from every human interaction? In this story, Principal Research Scientist Branislav Kveton shares his work on reinforcement learning, agentic AI models, and his insights on the evolving relationship between humans and AI.

Adobe Researchers use puzzles to teach an AI model to retouch photos

Editing photos can be tricky, especially if a user isn’t familiar with all their editing tools. Adobe Researchers have developed a new AI model that spots what a user might want to fix, explains each step, and lets users choose which edits to make. Learn more about this new research!

Adobe Research at Summit 2025: Agentic AI, exciting Sneaks, and more

This year, the work of Adobe Research was behind some of Summit’s biggest announcements. From AI agents built into Adobe Experience Platform to sneak previews of tools that will help marketers design campaigns, combine real-world info with their own data, and more!

The Research behind Project Get Savvy: A team of expert AI agents helps marketers design powerful campaigns 

Developed by Adobe Research in collaboration with the AEM team, Project Get Savvy lets marketers choose a team of AI agents who help them quickly move from ideation to a full marketing plan. Get an exclusive look at the behind-the-scenes journey of the project!

The Research behind Project Perfect Context: Bringing data from real-world events into Customer Journey Analytics 

Project Perfect Context, an experimental tool built by Adobe Research and Customer Journey Analytics, integrates real-world data into AI-driven analysis—providing marketers deeper insights into customer behavior. Curious how this innovative project came together? Check out the behind-the-scenes story!

Adobe’s new custom Assistant lets users explore data – just by asking in their own words

The Adobe Research team recently collaborated with their counterparts on the Customer Journey Analytics product team to develop a built-in Assistant. The tool allows customers to describe what they want to analyze in natural language—and then the Assistant instantly creates a visualization.

Neural Networks Easily Fooled by Common Objects Seen from New Angles

New research shows how AI networks often misidentify common objects such as school buses when seen from different perspectives.