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Adobe Puts Free Photoshop Online

Posted by Zonk on from the actually-not-that-bad dept.

Amit Agarwal writes "Adobe today launched a basic version of Adobe Photoshop available for free online. Photoshop Express will be completely Web-based so consumers can use it with any type of computer, operating system and browser. According to Yahoo! News, Adobe says providing Photoshop Express for free is part marketing and part a strategy to create up-sell opportunities. It hopes some customers will move from it to boxed software like its $99 Photoshop Elements or to a subscription-based version of Express that's in the works."

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  1. Re:Already Free by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Gimp is NOT Photoshop, nor is it even remotely comparable. Inkscape, though a nice program, isn't quite up to the same bar as Illustrator (though it can most certainly get the job done). And InDesign is the best, with Scribus and Quark being in a close second.

    Gimp is absolutely not a "free Photoshop" though.

  2. Just a silly observation by Apoorv+Khatreja · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    In Adobe Photoshop Express, check out the Asian girl at the top-left, whose title says "Smile".

    Notice that the "Exposure" filter that they claim "Made you Look" actually made you look at how racist the tool is, they made her coloured from white.

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