Adobe Photoshop coming soon to Google Chrome?

Photo and art enthusiasts without an expensive, high-powered computer can soon get Photoshop running on their browsers - and a relatively robust Internet connection.

 

Adobe, the creator of the popular image processing software, has worked with Google on this and has finally gotten a working version of Photoshop running on Chrome, The Verge reported.

 

"The application is downloaded via the Chrome Web Store, and when you open it up you're actually connecting to a server which is running the desktop version of Photoshop CC 2014," it said.

 

JavaScript relays the user's actions back to the server.

 

Potentially, the setup means the streaming version of Photoshop  can run even on relatively low-powered, net-centric Chromebooks.

 

Education sector

 

Not everyone can get their hands on Photoshop streaming for now, though - Adobe is testing it for six months in the education sector.

 

Meanwhile, The Verge quoted Adobe engineering director Kirk Gould as saying they are aiming to be able to stream a "pound-for-pound" copy of Photoshop.

 

"Gould said the company is about 90 percent there," The Verge said.

 

Limits

 

For now, Photoshop Streaming works exclusively with files hosted on Google Drive, but Gould said Adobe hopes to eventually work with other cloud storage services.

 

Also, some core functions still do not work in the program such as printing, or processes that require a graphics processing unit like Photoshop's 3D functions.

 

"Otherwise, everything from making layer masks to using the Camera Raw editor works, though it was difficult to judge the amount of lag over the screen sharing software. Gould was able to quickly open a 30mb PSD file and make some quick edits to it," it said. — Joel Locsin/TJD, GMA News