Adobe tests EditAgent for Photoshop-like image editing
Adobe Research and UC San Diego built EditAgent, an AI system that breaks image editing tasks into sub‑steps and pairs a general‑purpose editor with specialized tools. It uses a standard language model to evaluate variants generated in parallel, using measured statistics and close‑up crops, and outperforms evaluation models that were specifically trained for the job.
Key points
- EditAgent pairs a general‑purpose editor with specialized tools and uses a standard language model to evaluate variants, outperforming fine‑tuned evaluation models.
- In a 600‑edit benchmark, Flux‑2‑Klein‑9B failed 42.7% of the time; specialized tools solved about two‑thirds of those failures.
- EditAgent needs about ten times the compute of a single editor and produced ~26,000 training examples that improved fine‑tuned editors across three benchmarks.
In a benchmark of 600 edits rated by five professionals, the general‑purpose editor Flux‑2‑Klein‑9B failed 42.7% of the time. Specialized tools solved roughly two‑thirds of those failures. Professionals preferred parallel variants in 78.5% of comparisons, and EditAgent needed only half as many evaluation passes. The judge model Qwen3.8‑27B chose a usable result 81.3% of the time versus 74.8% for EditScore‑72B.
EditAgent improves open‑source editors Qwen‑Image‑Edit‑2511 and Flux‑2‑Klein‑9B across three benchmarks and outperformed seven other AI agents. It requires about ten times the compute of a single editor and produced about 26,000 training examples that, when used to fine‑tune editors, improved performance. Adobe added AI agents to Photoshop, Premiere and other Creative Cloud apps in June as a public beta.
Model page: FLUX 3 Image Klein →
Adobe is testing how well AI agents can use editing tools like a Photoshop professional would
The Decoder · 1 November 2026
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