- Anthropic announces a number of new creative connections for Claude
- A single Adobe plug-in provides access to more than 50 pro-grade tools
- Others include Blender, Ableton, Autodesk, Splice and Canva
Adobe and Anthropic have announced plans to integrate professional creative tools directly into the Claude interface to give Anthropic customers access to the Creative Cloud suite without having to switch apps.
It’s part of a wider rollout of Claude plugins being rolled out across the creative space, including Blender and Ableton, to democratize and simplify access to some of the most specialized design apps out there.
The Adobe tie-up was announced after the company’s annual Summit event, which largely focused on the future of marketing and builds on existing AI links like the Photoshop app in ChatGPT.
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Anthropic goes after the creative space with Claude connections
As for the Adobe plug-in specifically, Claude gets access to more than 50 pro-grade tools across popular apps like Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, Lightroom, Firefly and more. Users can retouch and enhance photos, create assets for social media campaigns, and resize their videos for multiple platforms from within Claude without having to understand some of the complex workflows of each specific app.
Because the work is done via Adobe tools in the Claude interface, and not by Claude directly, it means that users can pull inside the actual Adobe apps if they want to deepen their edits and so on.
Available globally, users must have a Claude account to access the Adobe plug-in. Higher usage limits, access to more tools, and the ability to save your work across sessions come with logging into an Adobe account, but it appears that logging in is not required for some of the most basic features.
But while Adobe’s connector is making headlines for making powerful editing more accessible to non-technical, non-creative workers, it’s not the only creative connector Anthropic is adding to Claude. In addition to Abelton and Blender mentioned above, Affinity by Canva, Autodesk Fusion, Resolume Arena, Resolume Wire, SketchUp and Splice are also coming to Claude.
All this, says Anthropic, without replacing the taste and imagination of creativity. Instead, the company sees these connectors helping them replace repetitive tasks and manual labor, freeing them up to take on larger projects.
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