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- clos, on 10/12/2007, -1/+60Damn thats gunna be hard to pirate....
- iomegaboy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+51Pretty soon I won't be able to take a ***** without internet access.
- Atomic1fire, on 10/12/2007, -0/+27photoshopr
- lorductape, on 10/12/2007, -4/+30I was going to say something stupid, but it's not worth it. bury to hell anyway.
- alevel27mage, on 10/12/2007, -6/+30Will a PhotoShop built in Flex be able to handle my 6000x9000 pixel or larger documents?
That's an honest question, I have no idea.
The article says that this will be "free and marketed as an entry-level version of Adobe's more sophisticated image-editing tools, including Photoshop and Photoshop Elements." Worse than Elements? I'd rather spend $30 and get Elements than use this. - Dotcommer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19No no.. not here at digg. We believe in positive reinforcement. You were about to say something stupid that everyone would read and groan about... but instead, you stopped, thought about it, and opted against it.. and for that.. we thank you... thus, you shall be dugg up, to promote the good digg skills that you have demonstrated today.. You're a role model to the younger diggers!
you deserve a cookie. - mikepotter, on 10/12/2007, -3/+17Looks like they'll be building it using Flex, like the video editing tool.
More information on flex at http://www.flex.org/
Mike - ColinCampbell, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13"Adobe and Google are competitors?
funny how Adobe Acrobat Reader is in google pack"
Yes, they are competitors. Microsoft releases Word for the Mac, that doesn't mean they don't compete in other areas. If the move is mutually beneficial for both companies, obviously they'll take it. - Phipman, on 10/12/2007, -4/+15Yeah my boss got a beta version of flex and has made some apps, it looks really promising. For those of you that don't know it can create apps that connect to the internet through your desktop, no browser required. As for online photoshop... sweet.
- shiftt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10if all the major companies start taking their software online, we're definitely going to have some problems.
- kevisazombie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Don't be too concerned with Large files and huge resolution. I dont think this will be targeted to commercial clients or even independent developers but more or less to the home user that wants to edit family Pics etc.
- FunkyWitDaSysTm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9maybe, but if your design house / creative dept has, say, a T1 or some other connection package with high-speed uploads, then this ostensibly could be an option.
it's just that photoshop is such a heavy app. it's going to be amazing to see how they actually pull it off. if they can put photoshop online, they can put anything online. - geoken, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9This is good news for Linux users. I hope they continue this trend with other apps (ie Flash).
- samssf, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9Definitely a move in the right direction... where do I sign?
- sherifgmansour, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7@DannySpace If you read up, this isnt a plan to substitute Photoshop, its merely a cut-down version with basic image editing capabilities. I would imagine it would be something trimmed further than Photoshop elements.
- neave, on 10/12/2007, -6/+13The biggest problem with web apps is latency. Desktops apps have immediate feedback, running an app in your browser requires a lot of waiting around while click are registered and updated. Not to mention is being a bit weird 'working' inside your browser.
The other big problem is privacy. Do you really want all your documents available online?
Then there's download/upload speeds for large files. No need to worry about that with desktop apps.
Finally there's access to the Internet in the first place. Great if you're at work or home but not so great if you're "on the move". - stalefries, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Two cookies, at least. All that thinking must have been hard.
- tfarrenkopf, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7I doubt this would be meant for people with 6kx9k pixel images... more so for webdesign and smaller scale image editing... and by doubt, I practically guarantee.
- allaboutdatiki, on 10/12/2007, -5/+11What about plug-ins? Holy cow ... I dreamed this ten years ago.
- Dotcommer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Dude. Have some restraint. ***** /cleanyourselfup
- stockjones, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Flex has great potential, even better than any of the flashy GUI stuff done with java or .net. They are finally getting it. Flash technology isnt just for animations anymore. Its a robust development platform for building rich applications.
- stockjones, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5cool experiment, but bad idea for real usage. Imagine working on a high resolution image file using a web based version of photoshop. bleh.
- Switch22, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6There are a lot of sites that have a lot of the functionality of image editors already. I don't think many are successful because of capped upload rates.
- sambiker79, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8I've tried both and photo is way better than gimp
- shmatt, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5yeeeeah. GIMP is not as good as photoshop. Get back to me when I can edit CMYK without a plugin.
no really. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Any app can connect to the internet without a browser if they're programmed that way.
I'm not sure where/what the online benefit/features would be compared to desktop software if the client is "desktop software" ... - thailand1972, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Serious question: does anyone here actually USE online image editors regularly? If so......WHY? Are you constantly travelling around the world and can only edit your photos in a cybercafe or something? I totally don't get this. If you're even just mildly interested in photo editing, why not do it on a desktop application where there's no latency and you can edit large files? Just because it can be made, doesn't mean it should.
- Doomhammer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Well, seems that this has potential, but we'll see...
Hopefully they'll support something besides IE / Windows, and it'll have decent performance for very large / high resolution files. - pixelmixer, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5best of all, if they put it online, itll be cross-platform, especially now that Flash Player supports Linux.... Flex DOES run in the Flash player btw..
- jchrome, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3As an tool for noobs or for simple and quick editing tasks, sounds like a great idea. Anything beyond that is obviously ridiculous considering the current bandwidth limitations that most of us "enjoy".
In general though I celebrate the "webification" of desktop applications. But I can't imagine some desktop apps (3D modeling in particular, as well as serious 2d tools like the full version of PS or any *real* PC games) being replaced by web versions anytime soon. But in (some of) our lifetimes, perhaps. - Wogna, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"FhtoShp"
"O" is a vowel. - suMMx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2sounds like bad news. Im not sure on how exactly its implemented but i can only assume its slow and you have to wait for stuff and you arent given the flexibility with an installed app. Also the lack of piratablility concerns me
- cresquin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@jbarnett
Something's wrong with your flash installation. Or you have very little available ram... Line Rider runs sliky smooth on my XP, single proc P4 2.4ghz, and 768 MB ram. - gd96, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2yes, because editing raw files is going to be so much fun ...what 45k upload? no problem..you should have that 22 meg files done....later..um...yeah
200 pixel healing brush...oh ..no that wont work....
I dont see how they could pull it off, and to think they could instead make A DAMN LINUX VERSION AND PERHAPS A 64 BIT VERSION OF FLASH!!!!!
no...no im not sore at all, for those old enough to remember I feel like Oliver Wendell Jones from bloom county.....I say good day - DannySpace, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3This will bomb. There's no substitution for a full, stand-alone application that has the technicality Photoshop has.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Why are there so many ***** on digg? Did you even read this part before complaining that it wont be able to manage you 500meg multilayered images?? - ITS NOT SUPPOSED TO YOU CRETINS.
'Like Adobe Remix, the hosted Photoshop service is set to be free and marketed as an entry-level version of Adobe's more sophisticated image-editing tools, including Photoshop and Photoshop Elements.'
Here's a ***** idea- read the article before commenting. - Schlaefer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Marketing in action. Call every of your photo editing related products "Photoshop" til nobody knows what it means, what features you can expect and everybody will be pissed up at the end.
- LowRentDiggs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Gimp would be great if everyone I work with used it but I put a PSD one of my designers creates and everything goes to hell. I was very excited when I saw this headline but I'm not so impressed after seeing it's a scaled back version.
Working with Flash and Photoshop ties me to Windows or OS X and I'd love to be able to go to Linux. - Ademan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13D modeling actually would be far easier on your bandwidth than image editing. I'm not entirely sure what adobe plans on sending over your connection, but i assume it's plenty. A 3D modeling program on the other hand, you'd send points, maybe some transformation matrices, splines based on some points etc. If it could manage to offload 3d rendering to your computer ( the only sane way really) then you're hardly sending any information.
- mercurysquad, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4Jesus. Who the hell wants to do any kind of semi-pro image editing inside their browser or inside a flash app?? Why not make a Linux version of Photoshop instead? Why the ***** not do so much as recompile the flash plugin for 64bit?! Some sense of priority Adobe has!
My other concern is: although a flash version would be mostly cross platform, who would really want to stay online and connected while doing something which does not (or should not) require any network access at all! And it's bound to be a toned down version too. - fulldecent, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Why would you want to?
- mtappenden, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It's Flex. It's cross-platform. As for high res images, I'd say they'll have it running on a very well optimised beast of a machine, so as far as rendering goes it should be good. You'll be limited by your connection speed of course.
- calvmari, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2@mercury
You're thinking of browser applications as they are right now. If webapps continue becoming as fully featured as a offline application, this could be revolutionary in terms of how we think of application distribution. I love this business model! - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Chances are? Google's already done it and hasn't released it yet. They're sneaky like that.
- Agret, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2@funkywitdasystm
If you were in a design house / creative dept. then you'd have Photoshop CS with all the bells and whistles and not even need this. - Ademan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Afaik GIMP can do everything photoshop can. The question really is "how hard is it?" That can range from "it's different" to "who the ***** designed this *****?". In the end, I feel GIMP is just one of those cases where you get what you pay for, I use GIMP when i need to edit photos, it suits me fine, but I have no illusions that it's some end-all killer-app.
- Hooj, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It seems that you don't understand the concept. Let me help:
IT IS NOT A REPLACEMENT FOR A FULL VERSION OF PHOTOSHOP.
Do you understand now?
This is geared towards the average joe so they can alter that photo of the family trip to the Grand Canyon easily and for free. - redline13, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Your totally missing the point. This isn't for people with your needs. This is going to be an entry level program below PS Elements.
- dxgg, on 02/05/2008, -0/+1I've been looking forward to something like this for awhile, especially since I'm switching to Linux soon, and don't really like any of the image editing software currently available.
That said, for *really simple* online photo editing, I've been quite impressed with Picnik (http://www.picnik.com/) - fulldecent, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Use case: facebook
You are uploading a photo and you want to touch it up before it goes live. -
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