Get the Photoshop Experience You’ve Always Wanted
March 26, 2007 Posted by Leslie in : News , trackback,
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Soon you can have the all of the Photoshop with none of the price tag.
In a move to compete with Google’s Picasa web application and the free digital imaging software Gimp, Adobe has plans to create a web version of Photoshop that users can access for free. How can they make it accessible for free? They are planning a complex ad share set up that would finance the use of the software online in exchange for ad views, though that is subject to change.
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The idea came from watching the success of web applications for digital image editing, followed by how well-received their image editing software for online photo hosting site Photobucket has been. This mini image editor, called Adobe Remix, is a quick and dirty way to edit the photos you upload to your free Photobucket account. It’s been handy tool since Adobe added it as a feature.
The online version of Photoshop will be what Adobe calls “entry level”. It will have many of the features of the full version of Photoshop that is available for purchase, but not all of them. The special online-only version is expected to be released in about six months. It is slated to be the first in a chain of online only free versions of their existing product line. Adobe hopes that these online products will draw customers in to use the more advanced and fully featured paid versions as well.
“That is new [for Adobe]. It’s something we are sensitive to because we are watching folks like Google do it in different categories, and we want to make sure that we are there before they are, in areas of our franchises,” said Adobe CEO Bruce Chizen.
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