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Photoshop Online Within Six Months

Posted by samzenpus on from the first-one's-free dept.

scobrown writes "Adobe is going to create a software-as-a-service version of photoshop that it will initially be offering for free. It should be available within 6 months. It is supposed to be ad supported... but we'll see how long that lasts"

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  1. Re:Platform-independent, I hope by dankenstein355 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Rather use GIMP to be honest. Anyway, performance will be way too slow for any image of a reasonable size over the web. Why bother? Or am I missing something here?

  2. I can't wait by eclectro · · Score: 5, Funny

    This means that Microsoft will follow by putting their much loved 'MS Paint' online.

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  3. Re:GIMP online 7 years ago (who cares?) by Frosty+Piss · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Whenever people Photoshop comes up at Slashdot, people mention Gimp. But Gimp is not a substitute for Photoshop as far as professional users are concerned. Gimp is like so many OSS projects, a rat's nest of messed up code, no real road map, and half-assed implementations "features".

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  4. Where is the CPU? by bjb · · Score: 5, Insightful
    OK, so I upload my 20MB PSD file and run a gaussian blur on it. Who's CPU is doing that? Unless it is ActiveX (Win32 only) or a Java plug-in (most likely not super efficient on raw CPU features), is it going to be hosted on their servers? Javascript won't handle it very well, I'd have to think.

    Probably not going to be a huge deal, but those real-time previews of CPU intensive filters are nice on the machine local installation; only hope those make it to the online as well.

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    1. Re:Where is the CPU? by lpontiac · · Score: 5, Insightful

      This is Adobe. They'll write it in Flash. Expect an application that'll run locally in the Flash runtime (which will happily have optimised image composition routines to do stuff like a Gaussian blur), but with the web used to deliver the application inside a browser, and possibly with online storage and/or public sharing of your work tied in.

  5. Re:Platform-independent, I hope by miyako · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'm guessing that while performance might suck for large images, anyone doing real graphic design and photography will have a real version of Photoshop. This is probably intended for people who want to be able to quickly design some small graphics for use on their website.

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  6. Re:Platform-independent, I hope by GweeDo · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yup...that feels just like Photoshop!

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