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Photoshop’s journey to the web

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Re: Photoshop’s journey to the web

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Post by achow »

wgx wrote: post #4

A polite reminder that the (quite extraordinary) Photopea[0] is available which replicates most of Photoshop's features in the browser, and is free - with a paid ad-free option. 0. https://www.photopea.com/

...and created by 1 person.

My name is Ivan Kutskir and I am the only developer of Photopea. I am 27 years old graduate of the Charles University in Prague. I live in Prague, Czech Republic, but I was born in Ukraine. https://blog.photopea.com/creating-photopea.html

[Edit]

Reddit AMA (3yrs ago) and HN discussion on it. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18397380

Re: Photoshop’s journey to the web

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Post by mhoad »

chaz6 wrote: post #13

Only Chromium/Blink browsers are supported, so no Firefox or Safari. This is bad for the web.

Two very underfunded teams there trying to play catch up.

Only one of them has an excuse though, the other is literally the most profitable company in the world who is strategically trying to make the web into a subpar platform for their own commercial interests.

Re: Photoshop’s journey to the web

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Post by Ralo »

I would love to see Photoshop in browser as a self-hostable option. I have many tools setup on my LAN and slowly been porting applications over to my local server so I can access all my applications on all my devices.

Re: Photoshop’s journey to the web

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Post by detritus »

andai wrote: post #17
detritus wrote: post #8

Well, I certainly don't like where this is going. Mind you, I suspect I'll not be alone and by the time Adobe transition to a fully web-based subscription lock-in, Affinity et al will be better positioned to entirely fill the void. Sod Adobe.

What do you not like?

The present subscription model and the prospect of where an entirely web-based equivalent will lead.

Also, most of the people I know who use Creative Suite have absolutely zero need for any of the recent multi-user / social/web-based functionality. I've never in my twenty-plus years in design needed it and see a decreasing likelihood I would in future either.

I appreciate that ages me and marks me as an old fogey, but.. well, all for the best if competition gets to the point where I can go back to buying single releases every n years, at my leisure, again.

Sod Adobe.

Re: Photoshop’s journey to the web

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Post by vnorilo »

mhoad wrote: post #25
chaz6 wrote: post #13

Only Chromium/Blink browsers are supported, so no Firefox or Safari. This is bad for the web.

Two very underfunded teams there trying to play catch up. Only one of them has an excuse though, the other is literally the most profitable company in the world who is strategically trying to make the web into a subpar platform for their own commercial interests.

I'd like to support Firefox with a donation as I'm sure many others would, but I don't trust Mozilla foundation to allocate it to something that actually matters.

Re: Photoshop’s journey to the web

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Post by mhoad »

pier25 wrote: post #24
chaz6 wrote: post #13

Only Chromium/Blink browsers are supported, so no Firefox or Safari. This is bad for the web.

Just yesterday the Webkit team at Apple announced many open positions. https://twitter.com/Litherum/status/1452770092308054020

I saw this on Twitter today also… however, this is after over a decade of taking a very very different approach though mind you. I’ll believe them when we see the outcomes though.
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