Adobe Launches Web version Of Photoshop – Photoshop Express
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Following on the lines of if you can’t beat them, join them, Adobe has launched the much-awaited web version of its popular image editing software Adobe Photoshop. Names Photoshop Express, the software will be available for free to the users. Adobe is not looking to generate revenues from the launch. This is mostly for brand awareness. Adobe hopes that many of the users of the online version will finally migrate to the boxed version of Photoshop.
Doug Mack, vice president of Consumer and Hosted Solutions at Adobe, said on the occasion,
“Photoshop is trusted technology that has changed the visual landscape of our world. Now, Photoshop Express allows anyone who snaps a digital photo to easily achieve the high-impact results for which Adobe is known. Photoshop Express is a convenient, single destination where you can store, edit and share photos whether you’re at home, school or on the road”
Based on the Adobe’s Flash 9 and inheriting much of the Adobe’s best image editing technology, the Express makes all this available to an all new online audience. The Express version gives 2 GB of online storage and supports nondestructive editing and has some of the most widely used image effects like red-eye and blemishes removal, black-n-white conversion, cropping and resizing etc. Also included are the special effects like Sketch, Distort and Pop Color which highlights part of an image by removing the color from the rest of the image.
Going by the initial reviews, the Internet audience has reacted well to the new of Adobe releasing Express. One of the reviews at ComputerWorld said this - it has created a new customer base among the Bloggers and Facebookers that will eat this Web application up.
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I have taken the test drive of the Adobe Photshop express. Looks nice but, still wonder if it will ever overtake Flickr.
Also, image processing is a computationally expensive work. I wonder how they do it?
@ Shishir
Hello
well Shishir…Adobe has delivered quality softwares in the past and I find no reason why Express wont be able to overtake Flickr….
Adobe lets you work with photos you have in imageshack and picasa.. support for images uploaded in flickr coming soon.. I don’t think they are challenging flickr here. and how it works.. the image is downloaded to a temp folder in the computer and uploaded back after corrections are done…
The software cant do everything traditional PS does.. You can’t design in it to put it bluntly its meant for image correction, resizing, rotating alone
@Anshu
Hi
Flickr also provides image editing and it can also do most of the things which PSExpress does. Then why would any one already on flickr turn to PSExpress just for editing. Plus the Flickr community is very active.
@Balu
I would say that Flickr and PSExpress are competing because PS provides hosting space also. If it was just for editing images from other services it would have been different.
Thanks for the information regarding the temp folder I was just wondering how do they find the processing power for the image processing tasks. One more thing if it downloads and then modifies on the client from where does it get the algorithm to run?
@ Shishir
It is a competitor in conventional sense but adobe’s objective is not to become a great host like flickr but to introduce new users to photoshop software…
Check out this review of express at cnet for more details
http://reviews.cnet.com/image-editing/adobe-photoshop-express/4505-3634_7-32909836.html?tag=bubbl_3