Photoshop MCP Server

Photoshop MCP server enabling AI agents to interact with Adobe Photoshop — creating and manipulating image layers, applying filters and adjustments, running Photoshop scripts, managing PSD files, and integrating Photoshop's professional image editing capabilities into agent-driven creative production workflows.

Evaluated Mar 06, 2026 (0d ago) vcurrent

Homepage ↗ Repo ↗ Developer Tools photoshop adobe image-editing mcp-server python creative

⚙ Agent Friendliness

/ 100

Can an agent use this?

🔒 Security

/ 100

Is it safe for agents?

⚡ Reliability

/ 100

Does it work consistently?

Score Breakdown

⚙ Agent Friendliness

MCP Quality

Documentation

Error Messages

Auth Simplicity

Rate Limits

🔒 Security

TLS Enforcement

Auth Strength

Scope Granularity

Dep. Hygiene

Secret Handling

Local Photoshop execution. No credentials. Adobe license required. Community MCP.

⚡ Reliability

Uptime/SLA

Version Stability

Breaking Changes

Error Recovery

Best When

A design team with Adobe Photoshop needs AI agents to automate image editing tasks — batch processing, layer management, and creative production automation.

Avoid When

You don't have Photoshop license or need simpler image manipulation without Photoshop's full feature set.

Use Cases

• Automating image editing tasks in Photoshop from design production agents
• Applying consistent filters and adjustments from batch processing agents
• Managing layers and compositions from design workflow agents
• Processing PSD files programmatically from asset management agents
• Generating image variants from AI-driven creative agents
• Integrating Photoshop into automated creative production pipelines

Not For

• Teams without Adobe Photoshop license ($21-55/month Creative Cloud)
• Raster-to-vector conversion (use Illustrator for vector work)
• Simple image resizing without Photoshop (use ImageMagick or PIL instead)

Interface

REST API

GraphQL

gRPC

MCP Server

Yes ↗

SDK

Yes

Webhooks

OpenAPI Spec ↗

Authentication

Methods: none

OAuth: No Scopes: No

No authentication — local MCP server communicating with Photoshop via photoshop-python-api. Photoshop must be running. Windows or macOS required.

Pricing

Model: paid

Free tier: No

Requires CC: Yes

Adobe Photoshop requires paid Creative Cloud subscription. MCP server is free open source. photoshop-python-api is free open source.

Agent Metadata

Pagination

none

Idempotent

Partial

Retry Guidance

Not documented

Known Gotchas

⚠ Photoshop must be running — cannot launch from MCP
⚠ Photoshop COM/AppleScript scripting required — platform-specific quirks
⚠ photoshop-python-api version must match Photoshop version — check compatibility
⚠ Community MCP from loonghao — not Adobe-official
⚠ Complex operations can be slow — layer rendering and filter application take time
⚠ Creative Cloud subscription required — significant ongoing cost

Alternatives

comfyui-mcp-server

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Scores are editorial opinions as of 2026-03-06.