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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 justinsb »

My understanding is that Adobe's previous cloud offerings download the programs to your machine, where they execute locally, saving files to the cloud. Is this how Photoshop works here? Or are they doing VNC/remote desktop style access?

I really hope it's the former - having virtual machines / LXC instances synchronized down to the Chromebook would solve those last few use-cases. (For me, my IDE is the only thing missing from a Chromebook and stopping me using it as my primary machine).

Re: Adobe joins the Chromebook party, starting with Photoshop

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Post by jdjb »

sgarrity wrote: post #2

I wonder what "initially with a streaming version of Photoshop" actually means. In a roundabout way, this is Photoshop on Linux, which is interesting.

This is a web application version of Photoshop. Nothing more (and it should run on any OS with a modern browser).

Re: Adobe joins the Chromebook party, starting with Photoshop

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Post by DannyBee »

jdjb wrote: post #5
sgarrity wrote: post #2

I wonder what "initially with a streaming version of Photoshop" actually means. In a roundabout way, this is Photoshop on Linux, which is interesting.

This is a web application version of Photoshop. Nothing more (and it should run on any OS with a modern browser).

No, it isn't ;)

Re: Adobe joins the Chromebook party, starting with Photoshop

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Post by taude »

jdjb wrote: post #5
sgarrity wrote: post #2

I wonder what "initially with a streaming version of Photoshop" actually means. In a roundabout way, this is Photoshop on Linux, which is interesting.

This is a web application version of Photoshop. Nothing more (and it should run on any OS with a modern browser).

Are you sure? It sure sounds like this is a version of Photoshop, running in a managed VM in the cloud by Adobe.

Re: Adobe joins the Chromebook party, starting with Photoshop

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Post by arscan »

For those wondering how the "streaming" version of Photoshop is implemented:

Project Photoshop Streaming is identical to the Photoshop you’d install locally with a few notable exceptions. This build can be accessed from any Chrome browser (Windows only) or Chromebook and does not require a full download and install. In other words, this is the same build of Photoshop you’d typically download and install from Creative Cloud, 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 Drive rather than your local file share. Also this Beta version of the virtualized environment does not have support for GPU consequently GPU dependent features are not yet available (coming soon). This build also does not yet support for print.

http://edex.adobe.com/projectphotoshopstreaming/faq

Re: Adobe joins the Chromebook party, starting with Photoshop

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Post by quite »

justinsb wrote: post #3

My understanding is that Adobe's previous cloud offerings download the programs to your machine, where they execute locally, saving files to the cloud. Is this how Photoshop works here? Or are they doing VNC/remote desktop style access? I really hope it's the former - having virtual machines / LXC instances synchronized down to the Chromebook would solve those last few use-cases. (For me, my IDE is the only thing mis…

So, it is the latter you prefer? -- VNC/remote desktop
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