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Adobe joins the Chromebook party, starting with Photoshop

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Re: Adobe joins the Chromebook party, starting with Photoshop

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Post by Bahamut »

whizzkid wrote: post #19

I am little bit concerned about the way technology trends these days. It feels like sooner or later, big companies will have all the hardware and software hosted on their side and people will only get access to play it according to companies rules. This is actually a concern to my freedom as well. I want to own my hardware and software power. I want to run everything offline if i want to. I don't want to click "I agr…

Except you don't own most software you have on your machine locally. You agree to a license to use it.

Re: Adobe joins the Chromebook party, starting with Photoshop

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Post by VikingCoder »

flixic wrote: post #14

Well this is interesting. Their FAQ[0] contains some more information, but still does not explain everything. They say "however, instead of being installed on your local machine, it is running in a virtualized environment so can be accessed from any Chrome browser or Chromebook. Because this version of Photoshop is running in a virtualized environment, you open, save, export and recover files from/to your Google Driv…

I don't see pixel-level precision being hard. As for color-correction, I would bet they have settings to allow you to adjust based on your monitor.

Re: Adobe joins the Chromebook party, starting with Photoshop

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Post by whizzkid »

Bahamut wrote: post #21
whizzkid wrote: post #19

I am little bit concerned about the way technology trends these days. It feels like sooner or later, big companies will have all the hardware and software hosted on their side and people will only get access to play it according to companies rules. This is actually a concern to my freedom as well. I want to own my hardware and software power. I want to run everything offline if i want to. I don't want to click "I agr…

Except you don't own most software you have on your machine locally. You agree to a license to use it.

"I want to own my hardware and software power"

I think this states what I am trying to say.

Re: Adobe joins the Chromebook party, starting with Photoshop

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Post by drzaiusapelord »

flixic wrote: post #14

Well this is interesting. Their FAQ[0] contains some more information, but still does not explain everything. They say "however, instead of being installed on your local machine, it is running in a virtualized environment so can be accessed from any Chrome browser or Chromebook. Because this version of Photoshop is running in a virtualized environment, you open, save, export and recover files from/to your Google Driv…

Whose to say this is VNC-based? VNC is very old technology. RDP/NX solve a lot of these problems. Or this could a x-server like application. Who knows, but I doubt Adobe is launching something that uses VNC-type technology where it samples and over-compresses the screen. I imagine things like color precision are well taken care of.

Also, anyone else notice this amusing note at the bottom of the FAQ:

Please post your issues to [Insert Forum Link]

Re: Adobe joins the Chromebook party, starting with Photoshop

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Post by swartkrans »

flixic wrote: post #14

Well this is interesting. Their FAQ[0] contains some more information, but still does not explain everything. They say "however, instead of being installed on your local machine, it is running in a virtualized environment so can be accessed from any Chrome browser or Chromebook. Because this version of Photoshop is running in a virtualized environment, you open, save, export and recover files from/to your Google Driv…

Also, I wonder how this affects bandwidth. Are you just constantly streaming HD? Are there latency issues? What about if the network gets congested? It sounds pretty terrible.

Also on the bottom of that FAQ it says "Please post your issues to [Insert Forum Link]" heh.

Re: Adobe joins the Chromebook party, starting with Photoshop

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Post by flixic »

VikingCoder wrote: post #22
flixic wrote: post #14

Well this is interesting. Their FAQ[0] contains some more information, but still does not explain everything. They say "however, instead of being installed on your local machine, it is running in a virtualized environment so can be accessed from any Chrome browser or Chromebook. Because this version of Photoshop is running in a virtualized environment, you open, save, export and recover files from/to your Google Driv…

I don't see pixel-level precision being hard. As for color-correction, I would bet they have settings to allow you to adjust based on your monitor.

Doing color correction based on monitor colors would be impossible: sometimes you adjust, for instance, RGB curves for one specific layer.

It could mean that half of the screen is changing with every step of the slider, and you want exact color, immediately.

Re: Adobe joins the Chromebook party, starting with Photoshop

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Post by aceperry »

sheetjs wrote: post #18
ethomson wrote: post #16

It's not clear to me why this supports only Chromebooks and Chrome on Windows. It seems like they would have had to go to the trouble to explicitly disable support for Chrome on Linux. Are Chromebooks so different than the shipping version of Chrome for Linux?

> Streaming Photoshop can be run on any Chromebook or Chrome Browser. It doesn't necessarily mean that they disable support for chrome on linux. It's possible that it can run on Chrome for Linux but Adobe won't necessarily provide support in the same way that they provide support for the Windows version.

That's probably the main reason. It's too bad though because it would be great to have it available on linux, even in an unsupported offering.
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