Photoshop For Free

In the never-ending circus to attract Web-based imaging customers, Adobe has tossed a thousand-gallon hat into the ring with its new Adobe Photoshop Express, now available for free in a beta version. First-look bloggers warn that this is Photoshop Lite — not the full-fledged imaging tool used by pros but a simple, free photo-editing version for newbies.

Meanwhile, rival tech giant Google is upping the ante with an API to enhace its Picasa Web Uploader service. As Adobe and Google — two companies who have snared market share in several imaging sectors with user-friendly designs — battle it out, Bill Gates and company must be fuming. May the friendliest imaging interface win. — Jack Crager

Comments

[john griffin]

hahahaha. i bet gates is mad. good luck to adobe and i'll be awaiting the results for how this products turns out and the reviews it gets. thanks

[Dave Kozlowski]

Although the interface is slick, Adobe explain to me again just how you do not 'own' my content??

From the Photoshop Express Terms of Service:

8. Use of Your Content.

1. Adobe does not claim ownership of Your Content. However, with respect to Your Content that you submit or make available for inclusion on publicly accessible areas of the Services, you grant Adobe a worldwide, royalty-free, nonexclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, and fully sublicensable license to use, distribute, derive revenue or other remuneration from, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, publicly perform and publicly display such Content (in whole or in part) and to incorporate such Content into other Materials or works in any format or medium now known or later developed.

[carlos]

WHAT???

new statement from adobe:
"Statement for Terms of Service Issues:
We've heard your concerns about the terms of service for Photoshop Express beta. We reviewed the terms in context of your comments - and we agree that it currently implies things we would never do with the content. Therefore, our legal team is making it a priority to post revised terms that are more appropriate for Photoshop Express users. We will alert you once we have posted new terms.

Thank you for your feedback on Photoshop Express beta and we appreciate your input.

-Adobe Photoshop Express Team"

Now they are pretending they didn't want to do it this way...Sad is that I don't think that adobe is worried on the "huge respond from users" but they are rather playing the safe way. At the end who can really make anything in name of fairness? Google or Microsoft only I guess... Sad world we live in...

Why this hasn't been widely spread? only concerned users worry about, the news are too superficial, thinks like:

"Adobe has issued a statement about some of the application's fine print that was causing consternation."

Come on this is not just "some fine print causing consternation"

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