Inside your editor or assistant
Add the MCP server to Cursor, Claude Desktop, VS Code or any other client. Your assistant gets 116 Photoshop tools and picks the right ones for each request.
Set it upTell Photoshop what you want.
Photoshop MCP connects Claude, Cursor and any MCP client to Adobe Photoshop. Remove backgrounds, retouch, color grade, batch export — from a chat, in one undo step.
Free and open source (MIT). Runs on macOS and Windows with Photoshop 2012 through 2025.
You
Remove the background from this portrait and export a 1080×1350 Instagram version.
Claude
DoneExported
Two ways to run it
In the standalone Web UI
No editor needed. One command starts a local chat that drives Photoshop. Bring an API key for Claude, GPT, Gemini or OpenRouter, or reuse your Claude Code account.
npx -p @alisaitteke/photoshop-mcp photoshop-mcp-uiAction Plan mode: one planning call, then every step runs in sequence.
Learn about the Web UIOpen Photoshop. Start typing.
Install takes a minute. The first prompt takes ten seconds.