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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 sillysaurus3 »

indlebe wrote: post #183
JeremyBanks wrote: post #176

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If your vision of how people can continue to own their data in the future relies on GIMP being improved to the point that's not unbearably painful to use, you're failing to reassure anyone.

Daily GIMP user here, pretty much the only thing you can't do is print CMYK.

The problem with GIMP isn't its featureset, but its interface. It's so foreign to anyone who works with graphics that whatever UI metaphors it uses fail to resonate with people, so they just end up confused.

What GIMP probably needs is an overhaul that copies what Photoshop does. People understand Photoshop, and it's the industry standard.

Re: Adobe joins the Chromebook party, starting with Photoshop

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Post by dchest »

dchest wrote: post #72
wmf wrote: post #55

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And then H.264 artifacts probably undo that color correction.

I guess they are using VP9, which has 4:4:4 chroma subsampling: http://youtu.be/xo_R40C7RTo?t=3m35s

Correction: H.264 also has 4:4:4. If you see artifacts, that probably means it wasn't correctly compressed.

Re: Adobe joins the Chromebook party, starting with Photoshop

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Post by pjmlp »

e12e wrote: post #162
[deleted] wrote: post #154

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Claiming that "terminals are the future once again" is hardly controversial. How much (time/money/mind share) are invested in non-networked, desktop-style apps? Some, yes, but "everyone" seem to be (continuing) the push for networked apps (MS Office and Exchange/Sharepoint, Google (everything), Adobe/Macromedia with Creative Cloud, Apple iCloud ...). Mozilla is doing a cloud-push to, but have thankfully so far had a…

Networked apps running on the desktop != Terminals

Re: Adobe joins the Chromebook party, starting with Photoshop

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Post by pjmlp »

emehrkay wrote: post #92

Didn't Google show off Chrome extensions that were low-level like C code a few years back? If I remember correctly, they even showed off an in-browser image editor and video games, what ever happened with that?

It has been integrated into Chrome, but hardly anyone uses it.

Re: Adobe joins the Chromebook party, starting with Photoshop

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Post by microtonal »

seanflyon wrote: post #151
dkokelley wrote: post #108

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I don't see how lowering the barrier to entry (access to tech) has any impact on the "rich getting richer".

If I understand na85 correctly, they are suggesting that the terminal model of chrome books requires decent internet and thus increases the barrier to entry. I agree with you that Chromebooks lower the barrier to entry because hardware cost is too big of a factor (and many things still work offline).

And there are other barriers (I actually think the bandwidth problem is solvable, by caching large parts of the program). Before SaaS, a poor kid from Egypt could (although it's illegal) get a pirated copy of Photoshop, Office or Visual Studio and improve their skills with modest means. Now they need software subscriptions that they can't afford.

I can see two things happening: it increases the popularity of FLOSS software in such countries and/or companies will adjust the monthly subscription fee to be proportional to e.g. the median income.

Anyway, I think thinks can be said for both models. Regardless my worries about SaaS, I also like always having the latest version, not having to install and maintain programs, etc.

Re: Adobe joins the Chromebook party, starting with Photoshop

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Post by pjmlp »

na85 wrote: post #69
vinceguidry wrote: post #46

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You should donate to and become a member of the Free Software Foundation. https://my.fsf.org/associate/support_freedom/join_fsf?referr...

I'd gladly do so if Stallman wasn't part of it. Childish meltdowns on stage, comments about pedophilia and toe jam eating aside, RMS might well have been a luminary 30 years ago. But AFAIK he hasn't done any coding in years, and mostly just travels around giving talks, riding on his past fame to continue to enable his lazy, selfish lifestyle (cf. refusing to own a cell phone but happily using someone else's, same for…

> I'd gladly do so if Stallman wasn't part of it.

If it wasn't for him, the tools that many love so much around here, would never exist.

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