Use it anywhere
Key Takeaways
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Adobes Photoshop isnow a web app.
Its severely cut back, but even so, photographers and designers are excited to use it.
The Photoshop web appworks in Chrome and Microsoft Edge, and is surprisingly capable.
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But is it necessary?
What, then, is the point of this web-based version of Photoshop?
Democratization
Before Photoshop and Illustrator, designers and photographers had to learn how to work with paper.
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The world has since changed.
What does this have to do with Photoshop on the web?
Now, you’re able to just grab a free app to get started.
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Collaboration and Accessibility
There are two huge advantages of using web-based tools.
One is you’re able to sign in and use them on any computer.
The other is that you’ve got the option to collaborate.
Take Google Docs, for example.
Photoshop for the web promises the same collaboration on images.
The other advantage, as Nugent said above, is access.
you’re free to log into your Adobe account from any computer and make quick edits.
Or you could use it on a Chromebook.
Or you could use this to run Photoshop on an unsupported platform, like Linux.
Is It Any Good?
Now we know how and why we might run Photoshop in the online window.
But do we want to?
Thanks toadvances in web technologies, Chrome can host some impressive apps.
…having the flexibility to save the day for a client from any machine is worth so much.
