hno:
There are more clones of this type than any other sw type out there, go to cnet.com/downloads and test drive one of the hundreds available. Have used over 20 sameys, conservatively, since Photoshop was a baby available on mac only back in '88. What are you concerned with - filters? sharpness? enlarging? decreasing? cutand paste? tons to try out
Sold it for $1,300 dollars on Ebay and am retiring and moving to Costa Rica.
Nah, it's still in my roomie's display area with all the other band stuff he's gotten over the years. Has a pair of Adidas' autographed by Korn that are his favorite I think. Anyway, he never asked about it again so I haven't brought it up.
HERE YOU GO JAKE! just announced today...
http://blogs.usatoday.com/technologylive/2008/03/adobe-introduce.html?loc=interstitialskip
Adobe Photoshop is the industry standard for photo editing, but it's expensive--$600 and up--and out of the reach for most consumers. There's the "lite" version, Photoshop Elements, which sells for $100. And now for the good news: a totally free, online version, Photoshop Express.
The software, available in beta test mode Thursday (http://www.photoshop.com/express) is an online editing tool that doubles as a program to manage your growing digital photo collection.
You won't be able to create multi-layered masterpieces with Express, but will find the basic editing tools most consumers need, such as cropping, coverting to black and white, resizing and removing red-eye.
Adobe says advancements in broadband and software design has enabled the company to take this step. Product manager Doug Mack doesn't worry about Photoshop sales going down due to the free version. "This is meant to introduce Photoshop to a new audience."
He expects to see Photoshop Express used by the social networking members of Facebook and MySpace, who regularly access applications like Slide and Photobucket to make slide shows or post pictures on blogs. Express has tools to embed photos on websites and blogs too.
The program also offers a place to back up and manage and share your growing photo collection, like Google's Picasa Web Album. Express has 2 gigabytes of free storage (to Picasa's 1GB) and will always be free, says Mack. If users want extra storage, however, Adobe is considering subscription fees down the road.
In our tests with an early version of Express, the editing tools worked fine, but the program had lots of bugs. It rejected uploads of photos, saying they were too big in size. They were 4 megabyte files, straight from our Canon 5D SLR camera; Adobe says the file limit is 10MB per photo.
We contacted Adobe about the issue, and they tell us that Photoshop Express is meant for consumers with point and shoot cameras, not digital SLRs. These cameras typically, but not always, produce lower resolution files.
http://blogs.usatoday.com/technologylive/2008/03/adobe-introduce.html?loc=interstitialskip
Adobe Photoshop is the industry standard for photo editing, but it's expensive--$600 and up--and out of the reach for most consumers. There's the "lite" version, Photoshop Elements, which sells for $100. And now for the good news: a totally free, online version, Photoshop Express.
The software, available in beta test mode Thursday (http://www.photoshop.com/express) is an online editing tool that doubles as a program to manage your growing digital photo collection.
You won't be able to create multi-layered masterpieces with Express, but will find the basic editing tools most consumers need, such as cropping, coverting to black and white, resizing and removing red-eye.
Adobe says advancements in broadband and software design has enabled the company to take this step. Product manager Doug Mack doesn't worry about Photoshop sales going down due to the free version. "This is meant to introduce Photoshop to a new audience."
He expects to see Photoshop Express used by the social networking members of Facebook and MySpace, who regularly access applications like Slide and Photobucket to make slide shows or post pictures on blogs. Express has tools to embed photos on websites and blogs too.
The program also offers a place to back up and manage and share your growing photo collection, like Google's Picasa Web Album. Express has 2 gigabytes of free storage (to Picasa's 1GB) and will always be free, says Mack. If users want extra storage, however, Adobe is considering subscription fees down the road.
In our tests with an early version of Express, the editing tools worked fine, but the program had lots of bugs. It rejected uploads of photos, saying they were too big in size. They were 4 megabyte files, straight from our Canon 5D SLR camera; Adobe says the file limit is 10MB per photo.
We contacted Adobe about the issue, and they tell us that Photoshop Express is meant for consumers with point and shoot cameras, not digital SLRs. These cameras typically, but not always, produce lower resolution files.
