A few new articles :)
Jun 6, 2008 3:46:48 GMT
Post by CharlieChomper on Jun 6, 2008 3:46:48 GMT
Since I've finished re-posting the old, I felt I'd finally go through the massive amounts of articles I still haven't had a chance to post about yet for various reasons (mainly, of course, just a lack of time to do so). Most of these articles, I'm almost ashamed to say are not entirely "new" in that they weren't just released, but they are still an ongoing and very much relevant situation--one I had originally hoped to post much sooner and even whilst we were still on the old board, but just never had a chance to before now.
I still have many more newer articles and bits of news to share, but a huge number of articles to still sort through before I can do so so for now, I'll start off by posting these as they're all related to one-another and might be of some interest as they involve arguably one of the biggest graphics/paint programs on the market today and some issues involved with it.
The first article is a blog entry about Adobe having released a free, online version of Photoshop that's more equivalent to Elements than the more pricey, bigger sibling of it, which they're calling "Photoshop Express". They did so partly in response to Microsoft's decision to push for an enter into the realm of creating software for online use. Also, as with most things in life, however, it does come with a few issues and "catches" involved to where "caveat emptor" applies...
Among the issues involved are in regards to ownership of any content created or edited using Photoshop Express (on the "surface" it appears that the user would, but in actually reading through the EULA it seems that Adobe actually would), among privacy-related concerns and issues.
There's another article involving Photoshop Express' EULA and Adobe apparently not reading it for themselves. The article, however, also goes into the fact that this isn't the first known instance of where a company has had something like this happen.
There's also news of the upcoming version of Adobe's CS4 suite (which, of course, will include Photoshop) running natively on the newer 64-bit architecture and some of the things to expect. However, if you own a Mac don't expect to have access to it. So far, Adobe has announced they do not plan on porting it over--but before anyone goes and blames or complains to them about this, as the article (written by a well-known Mac user and long-time fan of Apple) points out, it's not entirely due to Adobe not wanting to so much as an issue with Apple as well that's involved in this as there's a key component that was involved in Adobe's ability to port it over to Mac OS which Apple has decided to discontinue, currently making it impossible (sometime last year, Apple had even announced they would continue on with the component and even allow for it to run in a 64-bit environment--they then changed that very recently without any real notice). Add in the current hostilities between the two companies which has been going on and has escalated over the past few years (some are currently speculating over a possible "war" between them) where previously, they had been allies, and it doesn't look promising for Mac users in this realm.
I still have many more newer articles and bits of news to share, but a huge number of articles to still sort through before I can do so so for now, I'll start off by posting these as they're all related to one-another and might be of some interest as they involve arguably one of the biggest graphics/paint programs on the market today and some issues involved with it.
The first article is a blog entry about Adobe having released a free, online version of Photoshop that's more equivalent to Elements than the more pricey, bigger sibling of it, which they're calling "Photoshop Express". They did so partly in response to Microsoft's decision to push for an enter into the realm of creating software for online use. Also, as with most things in life, however, it does come with a few issues and "catches" involved to where "caveat emptor" applies...
Among the issues involved are in regards to ownership of any content created or edited using Photoshop Express (on the "surface" it appears that the user would, but in actually reading through the EULA it seems that Adobe actually would), among privacy-related concerns and issues.
There's another article involving Photoshop Express' EULA and Adobe apparently not reading it for themselves. The article, however, also goes into the fact that this isn't the first known instance of where a company has had something like this happen.
There's also news of the upcoming version of Adobe's CS4 suite (which, of course, will include Photoshop) running natively on the newer 64-bit architecture and some of the things to expect. However, if you own a Mac don't expect to have access to it. So far, Adobe has announced they do not plan on porting it over--but before anyone goes and blames or complains to them about this, as the article (written by a well-known Mac user and long-time fan of Apple) points out, it's not entirely due to Adobe not wanting to so much as an issue with Apple as well that's involved in this as there's a key component that was involved in Adobe's ability to port it over to Mac OS which Apple has decided to discontinue, currently making it impossible (sometime last year, Apple had even announced they would continue on with the component and even allow for it to run in a 64-bit environment--they then changed that very recently without any real notice). Add in the current hostilities between the two companies which has been going on and has escalated over the past few years (some are currently speculating over a possible "war" between them) where previously, they had been allies, and it doesn't look promising for Mac users in this realm.
