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More SaaS: Adobe launches Photoshop Express Public Beta

That story via MacWorld UK, very interesting. So first of all this allows people to edit photos (bitmaps) online. Secondly, Adobe doesn’t try to reinvent the wheel but instead simply plugs into existing infrastructure like Facebook (and I would hope also Flickr). This is smart, as no one can rule it all, you really can’t expect to be the one-stop shop that everybody uses. In addition, Adobe makes some useful graphics/publishing tools, they’re not a social networking or photosharing company (perhaps they could be, but that’s another issue altogether).

Although I follow this stuff in relation to my developing training courses on MySQL and related topics, I’m more interested in the pattern than in this particular event. But I do believe it’s significant. Not that SaaS (software as a service) is the solution to everything, particularly since you can’t be online always/everywhere, but it’s very useful anyway.

Will we soon see a web version of GIMP? I sure hope so. And personally, I’d love to see an online SVG editor. Hold that thought, already exists! Sketsa (but not quite OSS). A quick Google search brought that up. If you know of others (preferably fully OSS), please do let me know through a comment here!

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  1. It’s not GIMP but there is Picnik which lets you do some photo editing in your browser. Picnik already integrates with several of the major photo sharing sites (e.g. Flickr).

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