PSDesigner: Automated Graphic Design with a Human-Like Creative Workflow
2026-03-26 • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
AI summaryⓘ
The authors developed PSDesigner, a system that helps people create graphic designs automatically by copying how human designers think and work. Unlike past tools that simplified the design process, PSDesigner can understand user instructions, gather relevant design elements, and improve the design by using design software tools on its own. They built a large dataset called CreativePSD with many design files and recorded steps to teach the system how experts make designs. Tests showed that PSDesigner works better than older methods and helps users without design skills make high-quality graphics.
graphic designautomated design systemtext-to-image modelsmultimodal large language models (MLLMs)PSD filestool use in AIdesign workflowCreativePSD datasetoperation tracesimage editing
Authors
Xincheng Shuai, Song Tang, Yutong Huang, Henghui Ding, Dacheng Tao
Abstract
Graphic design is a creative and innovative process that plays a crucial role in applications such as e-commerce and advertising. However, developing an automated design system that can faithfully translate user intentions into editable design files remains an open challenge. Although recent studies have leveraged powerful text-to-image models and MLLMs to assist graphic design, they typically simplify professional workflows, resulting in limited flexibility and intuitiveness. To address these limitations, we propose PSDesigner, an automated graphic design system that emulates the creative workflow of human designers. Building upon multiple specialized components, PSDesigner collects theme-related assets based on user instructions, and autonomously infers and executes tool calls to manipulate design files, such as integrating new assets or refining inferior elements. To endow the system with strong tool-use capabilities, we construct a design dataset, CreativePSD, which contains a large amount of high-quality PSD design files annotated with operation traces across a wide range of design scenarios and artistic styles, enabling models to learn expert design procedures. Extensive experiments demonstrate that PSDesigner outperforms existing methods across diverse graphic design tasks, empowering non-specialists to conveniently create production-quality designs.