Comments on: Adobe Photoshop Express is Not the Web-Based Photoshop

By: Roy Crespi

Roy Crespi — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 03:10:25 +0000

Hi, I found this post while searching for help with Microsoft Silverlight. I’ve recently switched browsers from Google Chrome to Microsoft IE 6. After the change I seem to have a issue with loading websites that use Microsoft Silverlight. Every time I browse website that needs Microsoft Silverlight, the page freezes and I get a “npctrl.dll” error. I can’t seem to find out how to fix it. Any aid getting Microsoft Silverlight to work is very appreciated! Thanks

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 12:15:17 +0000

Online applications jsut give me the creeps. I like knowing that all my shit is in a little box in front of me, never mind that if that box dies I’m effectively screwed.

By: ia

ia — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 18:11:12 +0000

Try Splashup, it’ll make you feel giddy as a web-based Photoshop app should. ;) And Aviary too, when it comes out. But I’m giving Adobe the benefit of the doubt here; let’s wait and see if they can make a Photoshop killer online…oops. I don’t think they want to do that.

Blue purple pink!

By: Mia

Mia — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 17:58:24 +0000

Half-hearted attempts at innovation by developers I usually like make me sad!

…Well, not really, but you know what I mean.

(Oh and the blue-purple gradient you have here is so kyooooot, Ia-cha’!)

By: ia

ia — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 07:35:45 +0000

Don’t get me wrong, I hate websites that are purely built on Flash just for the sake of wowing the audience. But Splashup, Aviary, and Scribd/iPaper are achievements in themselves. Photoshop Express was a step in that direction: to bring desktop apps/features to the web, though not exactly like Photoshop. Isn’t that what AJAX and Web 2.0 are about? Of course it’s slow; this is just the beginning, at the very least, it’s a proof of concept.

I don’t see any other platform coming close to what Flash has achieved in the past few years. If something replaces Flash, then fine. Until then, I’d like to see how the Web can be the venue for things we would otherwise be doing on the desktop.

By: David Dugan

David Dugan — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 20:08:41 +0000

I have to agree with Ron... Flash is nice for animations, but is such a horrible application development platform, it really ruins the overall experience of Photoshop Express. Not being able to navigate through the site with normal means (browser back button, arrow keys, page down, mouse scroll wheel, etc.) makes for a very clumsy UI experience, not to mention that everything loads sooo slowly. I've fleshed out my initial impression here, but I must say, I just don't see how this offers anything over Picasa, iPhoto or Flickr. Can anyone tell me what I'm missing here?

By: Rom

Rom — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:23:11 +0000

Well, unfortunately Flash eats up a lot of resources and does not scale very well on other devices. I wonder how Gnash will render the new Adobe Photoshop Express. :)

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