Adobe Photoshop Image Pipeline AI Skill Guide (Claude)

Overview & Engine Architecture

Adobe Photoshop is a layer-based pixel compositor for retouching, design, and stills pipelines. Agents should treat documents as trees of layers / groups / Smart Objects / adjustment layers, Actions as recorded human-intent steps, and scripts (ExtendScript JSX or UXP) as deterministic I/O + export. Color is a first-class contract: document profile ≠ export intent (web sRGB vs print Adobe RGB / CMYK).