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Image Editing still has to run locally, you cannot have a request sent to the server everytime you resize an image or apply a filter. Yes, you can make it downl

Image Editing still has to run locally, you cannot have a request sent to the server everytime you resize an image or apply a filter. Yes, you can make it download-on-demand, as per flash, but it still needs to launch quickly, have fast and complete access to the local filesystem as well as the web, and this is a bit challenging to the current crop of browsers.

icefox 17y ago
Exactly my point. So Adobe is going to invest their best developers and gobs of money trying to make a web based photoshop. What if I were to form a startup that made a new next-generation Desktop Image Editor based on Qt (cross platform ftw) with the goal of being able to surpass Photoshop.
- cellis 17y ago
  I believe that has already been tried with Splashup http://splashup.com/ http://splashup.com/.
  - icefox 17y ago
    Your reply hint that Splashup is a desktop Image Editor that is set to take over Photoshop, but clicking on the link presents me with a POS flash app. Are you trying to say that Splashup already proved that Photoshop will fail to make a web app? It doesn't really matter because Adobe has drunk the Flash cool-aid and will make a Photoshop web app no matter how many have tried before because they will think they can do it better.
- jhancock 17y ago
  There is a market of at least 1, me, for a graphics editor that a smart (I understand the nature of graphics files), but non-trained (in photoshop) person can use. I've tried pixelmator a few times, but I have absolutely no idea how to use the damned thing. It looks simple enough. Yesterday, I opened an image and simply wanted to double the width, keeping the gradient "in tact". I couldn't even figure out how to select the area I needed (which was the whole of the image on the canvas). So how about a "photoshop for programmers"?
  - rincewind 17y ago
    http://packages.debian.org/lenny/nip2 http://packages.debian.org/lenny/nip2 http://www.vips.ecs.soton.ac.uk/vips-7.10/doc/nipbeginguide.pdf http://www.vips.ecs.soton.ac.uk/vips-7.10/doc/nipbeginguide....

icefox 17y ago

Exactly my point. So Adobe is going to invest their best developers and gobs of money trying to make a web based photoshop. What if I were to form a startup that made a new next-generation Desktop Image Editor based on Qt (cross platform ftw) with the goal of being able to surpass Photoshop.

cellis 17y ago
I believe that has already been tried with Splashup http://splashup.com/ http://splashup.com/.
- icefox 17y ago
  Your reply hint that Splashup is a desktop Image Editor that is set to take over Photoshop, but clicking on the link presents me with a POS flash app. Are you trying to say that Splashup already proved that Photoshop will fail to make a web app? It doesn't really matter because Adobe has drunk the Flash cool-aid and will make a Photoshop web app no matter how many have tried before because they will think they can do it better.
jhancock 17y ago
There is a market of at least 1, me, for a graphics editor that a smart (I understand the nature of graphics files), but non-trained (in photoshop) person can use. I've tried pixelmator a few times, but I have absolutely no idea how to use the damned thing. It looks simple enough. Yesterday, I opened an image and simply wanted to double the width, keeping the gradient "in tact". I couldn't even figure out how to select the area I needed (which was the whole of the image on the canvas). So how about a "photoshop for programmers"?
- rincewind 17y ago
  http://packages.debian.org/lenny/nip2 http://packages.debian.org/lenny/nip2 http://www.vips.ecs.soton.ac.uk/vips-7.10/doc/nipbeginguide.pdf http://www.vips.ecs.soton.ac.uk/vips-7.10/doc/nipbeginguide....