Photoshop online
Photoshop Online.. Online photo editing is now available directly from Adobe
In a move that many have been waiting for, Adobe has made Photoshop available online to allow editing images directly from the Internet without the need to install the program, but you must be a Creative Cloud subscriber to be able to use Photoshop on the web.
In addition to Photoshop being available online, Illustrator is also available on the web, allowing you to make changes to images and documents stored in the cloud without having to download them and open the application.
Using Photoshop and Illustrator is a great step for users of these two programs, but it's also a very small step at the moment: these are not full-featured versions of Photoshop and Illustrator.
Edit photos online directly
Thanks to updates to Photoshop and Illustrator, you can work with layers, leave annotations and comments, and make basic edits to your image using tools like the eraser, brush, and manual selection. But you still have to open the app to make any major changes.
Adobe’s chief product officer Scott Belsky said they won’t offer all the features on day one, but they want to gradually allow for basic editing, which is now best done in the browser and shared with anyone you work with. Belsky describes the online version of Photoshop as offering a limited level of editing and working with “real PSD” files.
The goal of Photoshop and Illustrator for the web is to make it easier for people you share files with for review—a client, an editor, or a friend—to work with you on edits. Previously, they could only make annotations and comments on the document. Now, if they’re given permission, they can also make some basic changes very quickly.
How to use Photoshop online?
Adobe is also adding a board to Photoshop for desktop to review feedback people have left. It's adding a new hub on its website to let teams organize assets and create collaborative mood boards.
You must be a Creative Cloud subscriber to use Photoshop for the web, which will be available as a beta starting today. Illustrator for the Web is running as an invite-only beta, and is accepting subscriptions starting today as well.
There are a few other new features coming to Photoshop, too. The app's object selection tool is getting more powerful, automatically showing you exactly what you can highlight as you hover over objects in your image.
There are also new basic filters: Landscape Mixer lets you remix your scene with a different setting or season; and new Color Transition and Color Format filters let you layer the look of one image or layer on top of another.
Adobe also says it improved last year's Depth Blur filter (Photoshop's basic version of portrait modes) to create a "more natural background."