Claude Extends Creative Toolkit with Direct Connectors to Photoshop, Blender, and Ableton

Anthropic unveils Claude creative connectors that let Claude access and act inside popular creative software—Adobe Creative Cloud apps (Photoshop, Premiere, Express), Ableton, and Blender—via natural-language commands, enabling data retrieval and actions within connected tools. The Blender Foundation gains corporate patronage from Anthropic, pledging at least €240,000 per year to keep Blender open source, while Claude is pitched as a speed- and ideation-boost for creatives that handles repetitive tasks without replacing human taste or imagination.