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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. Already Free by Frosty+Piss · · Score: 4, Funny

    I thought Photoshop was already free. Why would I want a Web-based version?

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    1. Re:Already Free by i_liek_turtles · · Score: 5, Funny

      Actually, for photos I use emacs.

    2. Re:Already Free by Cruciform · · Score: 4, Funny

      After all the effort Donny Hoyle put into his Photoshop tutorials, despite his failed marriage and active facebook dating life, you'd even consider using Gimp?

      Shame on you! Shame!

  2. Any kind of OS and browser? by serviscope_minor · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sweet! It works in lynx!

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    1. Re:Any kind of OS and browser? by trb · · Score: 4, Funny
      Sweet! It works in lynx!

      Now I can edit my cache of ascii art!

  3. Re:? Questions.?? by theNetImp · · Score: 2, Funny

    Why is it so DOG Slow?

    Two symbols. /.

  4. Re:I am VERY wary of online computing by moderatorrater · · Score: 5, Funny

    I, for one, am grateful that you turned your modem on, connected it to your computer, got over your creepy and offended feelings, then posted (in an uninvolved sort of way) about your habits.

  5. shareware by Rob+T+Firefly · · Score: 2, Funny

    I liked this idea better when it was called "shareware" and you just had to mail a fiver to some BBS kid in Missouri.

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  6. Re:Ahoy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    They already have an enormous advantage because all their competitors' software is junk.