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Adobe: Web-Based Photoshop Coming Soon

By Ed Oswald, BetaNews

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.

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.

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By batteryfast

posted Nov 10, 2008 - 10:52 PM

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 compaq e500s battery compaq v300 battery compaq v500 battery images by selecting the type of edit, rolling over the resulting previews, and then selecting the desired degree of modification.

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By dhjdhj

posted Sep 10, 2007 - 8:04 AM

Can't wait to try uploading one of my 150Mb files and adding a few more layers to it!!!

(sigh)

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By Avion Airplane

posted Sep 7, 2007 - 8:50 PM

this is a good thing Adobe is doing.....

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By billweh

posted Sep 7, 2007 - 4:04 PM

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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By mrow

edited Sep 7, 2007 - 4:29 PM

Photoshop Elements is only $99 bucks.

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By NULLedge

posted Sep 7, 2007 - 4:52 PM

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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By Paul Skinner

posted Sep 9, 2007 - 6:39 PM

Fireworks...?

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By GoodThings2Life

posted Sep 8, 2007 - 9:21 AM

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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