Review - Adobe Photoshop Express
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| I will confess I am a GIMP guy on Linux. I often see forum and USENET posts
| from Microsoft fanatics that state since (insert commercial software here)
| cannot be found for Linux no one is going to use Linux. One of the oft
| mentioned applications in this category is Adobe’s Photoshop. Others will
| recommend GIMP only to be told that GIMP is not as good as Photoshop. Now we
| all know that is really just personal opinion, not objective fact. In any
| case there is now a Photoshop that should even work on Linux. I am talking
| about Adobe Photoshop Express, a web based application. (For more news on
| Adobe Photoshop Express see this AltaVista News Search)
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http://blog.eracc.com/2008/03/27/review-adobe-photoshop-express/
s/Microsoft fanatics/Microsoft Munchkins/
Google: Web sites slow to fix serious Flash flaws
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| Cannings estimates that more than 10,000 Web sites are still affected by the
| issue.
|
| Cannings first noticed the bug on Google's Web site and tracked down the
| Google employee responsible for the flaw: a sales representative who had been
| using Dreamweaver to create buggy Flash files.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php/id;1071166631;fp;2;fpid;1
Recent:
Adobe opens shop on Web-based Photoshop Express
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| News of an online version of Photoshop first came to light last year when
| Adobe's then-CEO Bruce Chizen told CNET News.com that the product would be
| available within six months.
|
| [...]
|
| Adobe also plans to build an offline client using AIR (the Adobe Integrated
| Runtime) so that people can edit photos offline, executives said.
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http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9903446-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Why GIMP is Better than Adobe Photoshop
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| 1. GIMP has a simple and easy to use Graphical User Interface compared to a
| more cluttered working environment in Photoshop.
|
| 2. GIMP has a way lighter footprint than Photoshop. You don’t need plenty of
| disk space to install GIMP. The size of Gimp’s installer is less than 20MB;
| Photoshop could be around 600MB.
|
| [...]
|
| 7. GIMP's open development model means that it is much more readily available
| on more operating systems, plugin development is not limited by developers
| and as such has no need to compete with Photoshop; by comparison, access to
| Adobe Photoshop's SDK requires authorization.
|
| 8. GIMP is available at no cost compared to Photoshop’s hefty price tag.
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http://www.junauza.com/2008/03/why-gimp-is-better-than-adobe-photoshop.html
Related:
Adobe sees full shift to Web in next decade
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| Adobe Systems is working to deliver all of its software via the Web as a
| service rather than a packaged product, but the transition to earn money from
| subscriptions or advertising could take a decade...
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21359751/
On AIR: Getting ready for primetime
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| Are you still intending on a Linux release after the 1.0 release?
|
| Absolutely, the reason why the Linux version was delayed is because the Linux
| version of the Flash Player was delayed a little bit. So really the Flash
| Player is kind of the core of AIR and AIR is dependant on what it can do.
|
| So now that the Linux version of the player is out we've actually started
| development on the Linux version of AIR. I don't think that we have a release
| date for that but it's something that we're really excited about and we're
| going to bring as soon as we can after the 1.0 release.
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http://www.builderau.com.au/program/flash/soa/Ryan-Stewart-Rich-Internet-Evangelist-talks-about-AIR/0,339028413,339283175,00.htm
http://tinyurl.com/3cuqhh
Web designing with Ubuntu
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| As a freelance web designer, I really thought migrating to Ubuntu Linux will
| give me a really hard time. I never thought that Ubuntu Linux has a very good
| graphic design tool that can do what I am doing with Photoshop. Although Gimp
| is still way too different with Photoshop, I still see Gimp as a very
| powerful tool in graphic and web designing. It also possess features that
| Photoshop has.
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http://pinoy-blog.isoftinno.com/2007/10/23/web-designing-with-ubuntu/
Significant progress in Colour Mixing in Krita.
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| Emanuele Tamponi introduces the innovative work recently committed to Krita,
| covering paint mixing...
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http://commit-digest.org/issues/2007-08-12/
Adobe Photoshop: Online Edition
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| One of the risks of trying to find a niche to build a startup is that
| the big guys can land on your face at any time. That?s why all of
| these startups are going to be in serious trouble when Adobe releases
| a free, ad supported online version of Photoshop in six months.
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http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/28/adobe-photoshop-online-edition/
Adobe releases DRM tool for Flash video
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| With a price tag of $40,000 per CPU, the tool is aimed at broadcasters and
| site operators that use Flash to serve streaming video.
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http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2212474/adobe-releases-drm-tool-flash
Adobe Pushes DRM for Flash
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| Now Adobe, which controls Flash and Flash Video, is trying to change that
| with the introduction of DRM restrictions in version 9 of its Flash Player
| and version 3 of its Flash Media Server software. Instead of an ordinary web
| download, these programs can use a proprietary, secret Adobe protocol to talk
| to each other, encrypting the communication and locking out non-Adobe
| software players and video tools. We imagine that Adobe has no illusions that
| this will stop copyright infringement -- any more than dozens of other DRM
| systems have done so -- but the introduction of encryption does give Adobe
| and its customers a powerful new legal weapon against competitors and
| ordinary users through the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).
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http://www.gnashdev.org/?q=node/51
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