RSSOnline-only Photoshop Express Beta Coming Soon
By Tim Conneally | Published November 9, 2007, 3:57 PM
An open beta of Adobe's Web-based Photoshop Express is slated to be available before the end of 2007, the company said today.
First publicly mentioned in the beginning of this year, and then officially unveiled two months ago, Adobe's Photoshop Express is a streamlined, Web-based photo editing suite likely to be used in conjunction with other online brands. At the recent 6sight Digital Imaging conference, John Loiacono, senior vice president for Adobe Creative Solutions, mentioned collaborations with Shutterfly and Photobucket as a couple of the common ways consumers will use the product. Photobucket already has a Web-based Adobe video editing tool available called Remix.
HP's Snapfish has its own photo editing application, and Yahoo's Flickr recently said it would use PicNik to serve its needs.
While Express is tremendously stripped down from any software version of Photoshop, it will have the more commonly used photo editing features, such as rotation/cropping, color adjustment, red eye removal, sharpen/blur, exposure, highlight, fill light, and saturation, as well as several "fun" features like distort, sketch, and "huge."
This is an entirely different kettle of fish to photoshop. Lets not talk about ram usage of photoshop etc.. because under the hood it is not even coded the same way, or even the same language.
"stripped down from any software version of Photoshop"
Stripped down implies they "removed" components from source and made a lighter version. This is bad wording and will confuse the hell out of people.
I do think that web applications will be a step into how the lame man will manage his/her workloads in the future, but they will not be used for the more industry based proffesionals.
This does look promising though...
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|i agree.
one would get more tools from walmarts photo software and free storage too.
my guess is that this is adobe's attempt to manufacture more spyware, like flash. browser integration means add-ins, browser hijacking, etc...
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|Actually, Adobe deserves kudos for putting out one of the very few software products able to take advantage of copious amounts of ram and cores....
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|Well, Vista does a great job of utilizing all your computing resources, and giving you, well, the wait cursor and a lot of waste heat.
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|the company makes great software and pc's never encounter errors.
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|Wow... what a trolling retard. It's browser-based, genius. What, do you wear a hockey helmet and chew leather straps? Who helped you get on the internet?
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|*laughs*
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|bunch of ninnies...
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