Google offers free 12-month Photoshop Web subscription with new Chrome extension—Here’s how to active

Google and Adobe have teamed up to offer a free 12-month subscription to Photoshop Web for users who install the new Photoshop extension from the Chrome Web Store. Adobe says this feature is useful for creators, designers, marketers, and anyone who needs to edit images quickly inside the browser.

Step 1: Open the Google Chrome browser.
Step 2: Visit the Chrome Web Store and search for the Photoshop extension.
Step 3: Click ‘Add to Chrome’ to install it.
Step 4: Sign in using your Adobe account.
Step 5: The 12-month Photoshop Web subscription will be added to your account automatically.

The free offer is available only until 8 December 2025.

What the Photoshop Web extension can do

The new extension allows users to remove backgrounds, adjust colours, and make quick edits directly from Chrome. Users can collect images by right-clicking on them or by selecting the Photoshop badge in the extension menu. This removes the need to download and upload images manually.

After collecting an image, users can remove the background with one click and adjust brightness, contrast, saturation, and other settings. The extension also provides preset cropping sizes for Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube thumbnails. Edited images can be exported directly to a device.

Adobe says more tools and performance improvements will be added to make browser-based editing even faster.

This announcement comes shortly after Adobe confirmed it is bringing Google’s new Nano Banana Pro AI model to Photoshop. Users will be able to choose this model for features like Generative Fill, which lets them add, remove, or modify parts of an image using text prompts. However, Adobe has not confirmed if or when the web extension will support Generative Fill.

The partnership marks a step toward lightweight, browser-based image editing while expanding Photoshop’s AI features for Chrome users