While Chromebooks might be seen as really lightweight versions of laptops in the sense that they can’t really run heavy duty software, things have definitely changed over the years, especially with Google and Adobe announcing back in September that Photoshop would be making its way onto Chrome OS.
Well the good news is that after laboring at it for the past 2 years, it looks like Photoshop has finally made its way onto Chrome, but unfortunately if you’re looking to get your hands on it, you can’t, at least not yet. Photoshop is available for download via the Chrome Web Store but it seems that it is only limited to educational institutions for now and for the next 6 months.
Dubbed Photoshop Streaming, this is basically where users get to stream the software which is being hosted on another server that has Photoshop CC 2014. The UI from the desktop is captured and relayed to your browser where Javascript is then used to relay your actions back to the server, thus ultimately allowing anyone to use Photoshop on whatever machine they want, regardless of hardware.
According to Adobe’s director of engineering Kirk Gould, it seems that the company is 90% there to letting users stream a pound-for-pound copy of Photoshop. As it stands, the app will only work with files hosted on Google Drive, but Adobe hopes that eventually they will be able to support other cloud storage services. As for the public getting their hands on it, Adobe plans to do that once they become more comfortable with the experience, which hopefully won’t be too far off into the future.
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