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A year ago Adobe announced that it will be taking its popular photo editing software Adobe Photoshop online. Now it is a reality. Adobe Photoshop Express is an online version of Adobe Photoshop (screenshot below). It’s still in Beta. It runs on flash technology and requires your browser to have Flash Player 9.

To use this service, you need to register an account on the site. It’s a free service for now, I am not sure if they will be charging in the future.

While it’s said that it’s the online version of Photoshop, it does not have that many features. So it’s more like a basic online photo editing tool. But I am sure Adobe will be introducing a lot more features in the future.

via hongkiat.com

Fauxto is an online photo editing tool that is similar to Photoshop. Interface looks exactly the same, I hope they are not infringing any Adobe copyrights. Otherwise they will be in big trouble.

Other than that, it’s a cool application. It’s especially useful if you are out - using some PC that does not have Photoshop in it. You can use this online tool and still manage to edit your pics. (Of course the PC should have internet connection ;) Too bad the keyboard shortcuts do not work in this application.

Early this year Adobe announced that it will be launching online version of their Photoshop. I am not sure when they will announce it, and if it will be in flash environment.

Credit to HongKiat

Designers, here is 8 packs of Adobe Photoshop filters for you, 146 filters in total. They are all freewares, so go get them. Unfortunately there is no Mac version, all are for Windows only. Here is their names and brief description of what they do:

• AlphaWorks: 6 filters with various transparency properties
• ColourWorks: 20 filters for modifying the colours in your images
• EdgeWorks: 20 filters for producing edge/contour effects
• ScreenWorks: 30 filters with different screen/mesh overlays
• EmbossWorks: 20 filters containing simple emboss variations
• SwapShop: 15 filters that “swap” colour values in your images
• MasterBlaster: 20 filters to “blast” colours giving a strong cast
• Mezzy: 15 filters for producing mezzo and grain effects

Head to http://www.cybia.co.uk/colourworks.htm to download them.

Here is 250 free photoshop vector shapes and brushes from Magurno. Very useful for Web Designers. Files are located under “Download Goodies” section at http://www.magurno.com

Adobe has entered the Desktop Media Player market, its flash based player apparently works online and offline and allows you to share, tag and rate videos (it sounds like a stand-alone YouTube player to me).

More Adobe News
In a related topic, Adobe’s Creative Suite 3 hits store shelves. Adobe Systems has released in four packages the next generation of its design and Web applications. All four packages include new versions of Bridge and Version Cue for content management, Stock Photos for stock art and Acrobat Connect for Web conferencing. Device Central, which emulates how designs will play on mobile devices, is also included.

Source: DownloadSquad.com, News.ZdNet.com

Nobody really checks the Adobe’s official press site for Photoshop Tutorials, rather webmasters prefer sites like Good-Tutorials.com and Tutorialized.com for user submitted tutorials. However I should say that Adobe’s site is worth visiting, it has a large amount of tutorials on their products. They also have total of 76 tutorials on Macromedia products that they have acquired.

Almost all the tutorials are from the books that Adobe Press have published.

Video Tutorials: www.totaltraining.com, www.lynda.com