Photoshop MCP turns Photoshop into something you can talk to: describe what you want, and the AI plans the steps while Photoshop executes them, with each multi-step recipe counting as a single undo. It exposes 116 tools covering everyday design work such as background removal, portrait retouching, export, carousels, bulk watermarking, color grading, and generative fill, and it plugs into Cursor, Claude Code, Claude Desktop, and VS Code over stdio, with a built-in web chat UI as an alternative. As an unofficial community project under the MIT license, it suits designers who want AI to simplify repetitive image work, but not environments without Photoshop or users with strict concerns about cloud AI and anonymous analytics; back up originals and stay mindful of batch operations and supply-chain risk.
Photoshop MCP is a community-maintained, open-source MCP server that lets AI assistants — such as Cursor, Claude, or its own built-in chat window — drive Adobe Photoshop through natural language. You describe what you want (for example, "remove the background from this portrait and keep it editable with a mask"), and the AI first checks the document state, then plans and executes the steps. Every multi-step "recipe" lands as a single undoable step in Photoshop. The project states it ships 116 tools (100 atomic tools plus 16 one-step recipes) covering background removal, portrait retouching (skin smoothing, tone fixes, dodge & burn), web and social export (sRGB, resizing, sharpening), carousel splitting, batch watermarking, color grading, sky replacement, and generative fill (Adobe account required). It requires Photoshop to be installed and running locally (Windows or macOS, version 2012+) plus Node.js 18+. It connects to MCP clients over stdio via the npm package @alisaitteke/photoshop-mcp, and can also launch a standalone web chat UI from the command line. Licensed under MIT, it is an unofficial project not affiliated with or endorsed by Adobe Inc., and it collects anonymous aggregated usage analytics by default, which can be disabled.
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