Adobe Photoshop has long been recognized as the premier tool for image and graphics editing, but the cost was prohibitive for many people. Adobe first offered a slimmed-down version of Photoshop at a lower cost, but now you can use Photoshop for free! Zero. Zip. Nada. Nothing.
Adobe has introduced Photoshop Express, a free, web-based version of Photoshop. Photoshop Express is available now in beta form, and apart from the required Flash 9 plug-in (also free), you don’t need to install any software on your PC. This means Photoshop Express will run happily on your Mac, your Windows PC or even your Linux computer.
On top of that, Adobe is providing 2 GB of storage for your work, also free. So now you can edit images from pretty much anywhere with a PC and an Internet connection.
While graphic designers and image pros will still need the full desktop client, most people will find Photoshop Express more than meets their needs. Even pros will find it useful for those occasions when their own PC is not nearby.
And it’ll probably make law-abiding citizens out of a lot of would-be pirates.
Maybe they wanted to squash Aviara. http://a.viary.com/tools
Maybe they wanted to squash Aviara. http://a.viary.com/tools
Aviara looks very interesting, but it’s still a closed beta. And there are lots of others doing web based image editing. I’ve used picnik (which is now integrated with Flickr, too).
I don’t think any of these tools actually replaces Photoshop for serious creative work, but they are a nice and convenient choice for quick, simple edits of existing images. And they are a great choice for the many people who really don’t need the full power of the desktop version of Photoshop.
Aviara looks very interesting, but it’s still a closed beta. And there are lots of others doing web based image editing. I’ve used picnik (which is now integrated with Flickr, too).
I don’t think any of these tools actually replaces Photoshop for serious creative work, but they are a nice and convenient choice for quick, simple edits of existing images. And they are a great choice for the many people who really don’t need the full power of the desktop version of Photoshop.