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SurfPark
10-05-2007, 07:45 PM
I had to share this video with everyone. Adobe recently showed the demo for their online application, Photoshop Express. I'm impressed as to what they were able to do within the web browser. It looks like a Flash interface.
http://www.cnettv.com/9742-1_53-29389.html
Be scared! LOL. I think this is the future of all applications. CD-roms will be so last century.
D-Frag
10-05-2007, 08:02 PM
impressive, but i will say it again until im blue in the face, they need to fix there damn current versions before "exploring" other areas. PS CS2 is by far the buggiest version I have ever worked on and of course is what we have here at work. ugh, i guess they will never learn
Satchel
10-05-2007, 08:18 PM
That's pretty crazy...
Be scared! LOL. I think this is the future of all applications. CD-roms will be so last century.
For consumers maybe as like a flickr or facebook kind of add on but there is no way the design community embrace this. Could you imagine trying to meet a deadline and the server gets hit with a ddos attack or gets overloaded and laggy because too many designers are working on last minute changes at midnight.
Question:
Does anyone know if the photos are being hosted online as well or is he making changes to a photo he has on his hard drive?
Side Note:
My sister recently got married and bought some do it yourself paper to print the wedding program/bulletin for the ceremony. Foil stamped and embossed but laser safe. They directed you to their website that looked like a page layout program had a template 10-15 different font styles and the ability to alter the font size. Pretty Slick.
urstwile
10-06-2007, 09:02 PM
For consumers maybe as like a flickr or facebook kind of add on but there is no way the design community embrace this. Could you imagine trying to meet a deadline and the server gets hit with a ddos attack or gets overloaded and laggy because too many designers are working on last minute changes at midnight.
Question:
Does anyone know if the photos are being hosted online as well or is he making changes to a photo he has on his hard drive?
Yeah, I agree MD, I can't imagine working on a large image online. Not to mention, at least here in the U.S., our Internet speeds are so far behind that of so many other countries that I can't imagine this being practical for a working designer or production person.
I'm also curious to know the steps to being able to work on an image in this fashion, do you need to upload it first? I'm guessing you do. Given that sometimes trying to upload a small file to imageshack or tinypic can take forever, I suspect they're going to have some serious bandwidth issues, particularly in the U.S.
PrintDriver
10-06-2007, 09:40 PM
I wish Adobe would wake up to the fact that not all print is 8.5" x 11". :(
urstwile
10-06-2007, 09:43 PM
PD, I'm not even sure if they're working with images that are that size.
PrintDriver
10-06-2007, 09:46 PM
I gathered that... It's getting really weird out here for the large format designers (and production people) these days. Digital isn't always better...
I'm still so sad at the Smithsonian junking all their repro camera equipment and possibly their copynegs in favor of 8x10, 300dpi scans of their image collections... :(
urstwile
10-06-2007, 09:51 PM
Man, I hope they didn't dump the negs, that would suck. You don't really think they'd be that cavalier, do you? :(
PrintDriver
10-08-2007, 12:14 PM
Copy negs, not the originals. I'm sure the originals have been moved to sub-zero storage. Makes em a little hard to access. :(
SurfPark
10-09-2007, 11:06 PM
My guess is that this might replace Photoshop Elements, rather than normal Photoshop. I didn't see anywhere in the video that said its only for 8.5x11" printing. Just wondering why PD mentioned it.
Obviously this is for photo editing on the fly. It would be an awesome addition to a photo hosting site. Its nice that you could do the basics on an older computer too.
PrintDriver
10-10-2007, 01:24 AM
We got a little off topic.
Uploaded images. This'll be fine for on-line snapshot scrapbook things.
I viewed about 3 minutes of the film, got as far as the guy rotating an image of a little boy and watched it go out of aspect ratio. That was more than enough 'demo' for me.
Even Adobe power apps are geared for nothing larger than a magazine spread. The gradient tool for example is based on never making a gradient over 8" in length.
Broacher
10-10-2007, 04:21 PM
Gee, can't wait til InDesign goes online. Will make working at home on my dial-up connection seem that much sweeter.