RSSAdobe: Web-Based Photoshop Coming Soon
By Ed Oswald | Published September 7, 2007, 11:22 AM
Adobe has taken the wraps off of Photoshop Express: a free, stripped-down version of its signature image editing software that will be available online.
The company first began development of the product early this year, and envisioned it competing with offerings from other companies such as Google's Picasa. It runs within the browser and is completely Flash-based.
Express will not replace any of Adobe's current products. "Rather, it's a new member of the Photoshop family that's meant to make Adobe imaging technology immediately accessible way to large numbers of people," Photoshop product manager John Nack said in a blog post.
Photoshop Express follows Premiere Express, which was first launched in February of this year. That program is meant to make creating online videos easy. Photobucket, MTV.com, and YouTube's TestTube already use the application.
Nack said that it is easy to make modifications to images by selecting the type of edit, rolling over the resulting previews, and then selecting the desired degree of modification.
Adobe has given no indication as to when Photoshop Express will be made available, only saying that it is still in development.
Can't wait to try uploading one of my 150Mb files and adding a few more layers to it!!!
(sigh)
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this is a good thing Adobe is doing.....
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How about they come up with a stripped down (or at least trimmed down) version of Photoshop that your average user can afford?
That I don't need a web connection or flash to make work.
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Photoshop Elements is only $99 bucks.
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except that's more tuned towards photographers than web designers. what are we on? version 8 or 9 now? even to make version 5 cheap would be nice. true, a lot of the enhancements in CS3 are really sweet, but i don't need them all. layers, styles, undo, maybe half the tools in the tool bar and a decent format exporter and i'm set. wonder how fireworks is doing these days.
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I'm not sure how you can say that considering it does just fine with exporting images to GIF, JPEG, and PNG, and the quality of images produced is just as any other editor would be.
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Fireworks...?
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