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Adobe's subscription suite of over 70 creative apps, including Photoshop, Illustrator and Premiere, for design, video and content production.
Adobe shipped Premiere for Android a year after the iOS app, with 4K export and a multi-track timeline at no cost and no watermark. Keyframes, cropping and handoff to Premiere desktop are on Adobe's list of features to add.
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Adobe reported record third-quarter revenue of $6.76bn and its billionth monthly active user on September 10. By Shantanu Narayen's own split, freemium expansion explains only about half of the lowered ARR outlook.
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Adobe's shares fell almost 5 percent after hours and were even again by Friday morning, and the open question is how large the AI-first ARR growing more than 150 percent is inside a $27.50bn total the company did not break out.
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The Model Context Protocol integration lets Slack Business+ and Enterprise+ users create and edit in Photoshop or Premiere without opening either, which makes the chat window the surface Adobe now designs for.
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Adobe's Slack app opens the same tool set it shipped to OpenAI's platform, and it runs for Business+ and Enterprise+ customers without requiring an Adobe account. Slack's invoice is the one that unlocks it.
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The Adobe for Slack MCP app lets Slackbot read a channel and then call Photoshop or Firefly. That makes the rollout a Slack contract question before it is ever an Adobe licensing question, and it lets people start with no Adobe account at all.
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