[General] Photoshop to go online in six months

[Priscilla Chung]

http://www.theonlinephotographer.blogspot.com/

Thursday, March 01, 2007
Photoshop To Go Online

Adobe CEO Bruce Chizen (right) says that Photoshop will be online  
within six months, c|net News.com reported yesterday. Up till now,  
Adobe's products have been software programs sold in boxes or by  
download for installation on end-user's own local computers. The  
pioneering application for the new paradigm is Adobe Remix, a web- 
based video editing tool that Adobe offers through PhotoBucket, and  
Adobe's model appears to be Google, which already offers several  
online applications (such as Blogger, which you're reading right  
now). Adobe wants to be ready before anyone else (Google again  
implied) treads on its territory with online apps for imaging. Chizen  
told News.com yesterday that a basic version of Photoshop will be  
made available as an online service. It will be a more basic version  
than Elements and it will be free to users—Adobe will derive income  
indirectly, through advertisements.

Chizen said that in the future, Adobe will offer complete hosted  
applications online, and that it is also looking into hybrid models  
in which online services will introduce users to its more complete,  
traditionally packaged software.

Posted by: MIKE JOHNSTON, with thanks to Kevin