Macromedia, Inc.
2005
Changing the world through personalized digital experiences.
Adobe empowers everyone, everywhere to imagine, create, and bring any digital experience to life. From creators and students to small businesses, global enterprises, and nonprofit organizations — customers choose Adobe products to ideate, collaborate, be more productive, drive business growth, and build remarkable experiences.
Creative Cloud
Industry-leading photography, design, illustration, and video apps that professionals rely on to do their best work.
Document Cloud
The world's leading platform for viewing, summarizing, editing, sharing, collaborating, and signing PDF documents.
Experience Cloud
Everything businesses need to design and deliver great customer experiences that drive profitable growth.
Adobe Express
The quick and easy create-anything app for making standout social posts, videos, flyers, and more.
How we’re making an impact.
Explore all the ways Adobe is innovating, breaking boundaries, and making a difference in our local communities and across the globe.
Our approach to generative AI.
Adobe is amplifying human ingenuity with AI, helping customers enhance their creativity, increase their productivity, and deliver more personalized experiences.
Designed to unlock your potential.
AI at Adobe is designed to enhance the creativity, intelligence, and ingenuity of our users, empowering people to work faster, focus on what’s important, and accomplish more.
Developed responsibly and transparently.
We train our Firefly models on data that allows us to offer customers a solution designed to be commercially safe. Plus, through the Content Authenticity Initiative, we’re driving global industry standards for transparency.
Integrated seamlessly into your workflows.
At Adobe, AI is built into our tools and seamlessly integrated into workflows customers are already using. Our embedded AI features fuel creativity, enable greater productivity, and empower businesses to deliver personalization at scale.
Making history since 1982.
Explore key moments in Adobe history — from the debut of PostScript, the introduction of Photoshop, the invention of PDF, and the creation of the digital marketing software category to our latest transformative innovations.
1982
John Warnock and Charles Geschke found Adobe to revolutionize printing and publishing with an all-digital approach.
1985
The release of Adobe PostScript marks the first international standard for computer printing.
1987
Adobe Illustrator gives artists the precision and freedom to create digital images.
1989
Adobe makes PostScript font technology an open standard.
1990
Adobe Photoshop redefines imaging and artistic expression.
1991
Adobe Premiere transforms professional video editing.
1993
Portable Document Format (PDF) and Adobe Acrobat usher in a new era of document productivity.
1999
Adobe InDesign introduces the next generation of digital publishing.
2003
Adobe pioneers the “freemium” software model with the launch of Acrobat Reader.
2005
Flash helps shape the future of video and gaming on the web, kick-starting the interactive web.
2008
Portable Document Format (PDF) is released as an open standard.
Major acquisitions
Omniture, Inc.
2009
Day Software
2010
2012
Adobe Marketing Cloud unifies analytics, advertising, targeting, and web experience management, creating the digital marketing software category.
Adobe becomes the first major software company to transition to a subscription-based model with the announcement of Adobe Creative Cloud.
2016
Adobe Sensei enables the development of AI-powered features across Adobe’s product portfolio.
2019
Adobe founds the cross-industry Content Authenticity Initiative to build trust and transparency in digital content.
Adobe Experience Platform empowers organizations to centralize and standardize customer data from any system.
Major acquisitions
Behance
2012
Fotolia
2015
Magento, Marketo
2018
Allegorithmic
2019
Workfront
2020
2021
Adobe Express brings the magic of technology from Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, Acrobat, and Firefly to make content creation quick and easy for everyone.
2023
Adobe Firefly becomes the first creative generative AI model designed to be commercially safe.
2024
Adobe GenStudio reimagines enterprise content supply chains, empowering marketers to quickly plan, create, manage, activate, and measure on-brand content.
Major acquisitions
Frame.io
2021