Editmamei Desktop
Tell your AI what you want. It makes the edit in Photoshop on your computer, in layers and masks you can keep working on, and checks the result before it hands it back.
Photoshop 2026 or GIMP 3.2 · Windows, macOS, and Linux with GIMP · Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor and more
Editmamei Desktop is an MCP server: it lets AI apps such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor edit photos in Adobe Photoshop or GIMP on your computer. Free, with Pro for whole shoots.
How it works
Editmamei connects your AI app to the editor on your own machine. Your AI decides each step, Editmamei carries it out in Photoshop or GIMP, and a small preview comes back so your AI can see what changed.
Stays on your computer Goes to the AI model
Photoshop or GIMP does every step, on the full-size photo, with its own tools. Nothing is redrawn.
So it can check its own work, the same as dropping a photo into a chat. You can switch previews off in Editmamei's settings.
Editmamei never sends us your photos or previews. It sends content-free usage data, which you can turn off, checks for updates, and with Pro checks its license and asks us for Pro module updates.
Every request is listed on the privacy page.
What you can ask for
Three real requests, each in a fresh chat, each with the result it got. You describe the photo you want; your AI works out the steps.
“Give this beach photo a bright, airy summer-afternoon look. Lift the shadows on the sand so it reads clean and white, deepen the blue in the sky while keeping the clouds bright, and let the umbrella's colors pop without looking fake.”
A real session in Photoshop, about 6 minutes.
“Replace the sky with one of Photoshop's sunset skies. Keep the waterfall, the cliffs and the spray exactly as they are, warm the foreground a little so the light matches the new sky, then check the horizon at full size for halos or leftover patches of the old sky and fix them before you call it done.”
A real session in Photoshop, about 8 minutes.
“Get this ready for three places: an Instagram post, an Instagram story with room at the top and bottom for text, and an 8x10 print for a frame. Keep the puppy's face and both ears in frame in all three.”
A real session in Photoshop, about 4 minutes.
The file you get back
Your AI builds the edit the way a retoucher would: adjustment layers and masks, stacked on your untouched original. Open the file and change any of it by hand, or ask for a different take on one step.
8 of 8 layersThe request: “give this shot a full work-up. analyze what could be improved, research the expert processes if you need to, then implement” A real session in Photoshop, on an iPhone photo.
What you need
1 · An editor
Photoshop 2026 on Windows or macOS. Or GIMP 3.2, which is free and also runs on Linux.
2 · An AI app on your computer
Claude Desktop installs it in one click. Claude Code, Cursor and other apps that support MCP, the standard way AI apps plug into other software, work too. Editmamei brings no chat model of its own, so edits use your AI app's plan.
3 · A few minutes
A first edit takes a while: the three requests above took 4 to 8 minutes, because your AI looks, plans and checks at every step. With Pro, a look you've saved goes onto the next photo in a few steps.
Curious what an edit costs in usage? We measured it.
Free and Pro
62 Photoshop tools and 29 for GIMP: adjustment layers, masks, selections, Select Subject and Select Sky, sky replacement, retouching, filters and text. Enough for a full edit of any photo.
Install freeEverything in Free, for when one photo turns into a whole shoot.
Templates
Save a look once, then put it on the next photo.
Batch
The same crop, resize and export across a whole folder, run by Photoshop itself.
Camera Raw
A re-editable develop, and raw files developed before they open.
Precision
Placement by name, warps, and selections of a named object or a face.
Using GIMP
Editmamei runs GIMP 3.2 in the background, with no window and nothing installed into GIMP. You follow the edit through previews in the chat, then open the saved .xcf in GIMP with every adjustment still live. 29 tools, free, on Windows, macOS and Linux.
Adjustments and effects go on as GIMP’s own non-destructive filters. The AI can re-edit or remove any of them, and they are still live when you open the file in GIMP.
With no GIMP window to watch, your AI shows rendered previews in the chat and checks its work with histograms and before/after comparisons.
With no GIMP window open there is no undo history, so a checkpoint saves the image with its live filters and restores it later. Save an .xcf for anything you want to keep.
GIMP somewhere unusual? Point Editmamei at it. Have both editors and want GIMP only? Pin the editor. Everything else is in the GIMP guide.
Install
One click for Claude Desktop. For Claude Code, Cursor and other AI apps, two commands in a terminal (they need Node.js).
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editmamei.mcpb.Free · Windows & macOS · ~35 MB
Run these two commands:
$ npm install -g editmamei
$ editmamei installThe second command registers Editmamei with Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor. Then restart your AI app and ask “Is Photoshop connected?” Other apps use the install guide.
That command also saves a skill file, editmamei-skill.zip, to
your Downloads folder. Upload it at claude.ai under Settings, then Skills (Add, then Upload
skill), and Claude gets Editmamei's editing workflow.
Other MCP apps use the same setup; the install guide has it.
Full setup walkthrough in the Getting Started guide.
Not yet
Editmamei works in Photoshop and in GIMP. It does not drive Lightroom.
Elements does not expose the scripting interface that full Photoshop does, so Editmamei cannot drive it.
The AI sets Camera Raw’s develop sliders, but cannot draw its local masks. When it develops a raw file, masks you made by hand in Camera Raw are carried through untouched.
HEIC photos open and edit as usual. Photoshop opens them by a route that never reads Camera Raw’s settings file, so a develop-before-open request for a HEIC is refused.
More answers are in the FAQ.