Photoshop Express (online photoshop) now open to anyone!
Mar 27, 2008 | 8:06 am
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Photoshop Express (online photoshop) now open to anyone!
https://www.photoshop.com/express
2Gb free storage AND a pretty good photoshop online experience. Perfect for doing some minor photo work when on the road!
2Gb free storage AND a pretty good photoshop online experience. Perfect for doing some minor photo work when on the road!
Mar 27, 2008 | 11:30 am
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I signed up though it never sent me the confirmation email. I even tried logging in and clicked resend and it still hasn't come.
Edit: Finally came
Edit: Finally came
Mar 27, 2008 | 3:01 pm
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Might want to be a bit careful with the licensing terms on this:
To me it reads that if you upload a picture to the site and (I think) publicly display it, Adobe gets the right to do whatever they want for as long as they want (including make money off it). Way too broad for me.
If you look at Picasa's or flickr's TOS, both of them state that they only have that right while you keep the content public on their site.
Adobe does not claim ownership of Your Content. However, with respect to Your Content that you submit or make available for inclusion on publicly accessible areas of the Services, you grant Adobe a worldwide, royalty-free, nonexclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, and fully sublicensable license to use, distribute, derive revenue or other remuneration from, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, publicly perform and publicly display such Content (in whole or in part) and to incorporate such Content into other Materials or works in any format or medium now known or later developed.
If you look at Picasa's or flickr's TOS, both of them state that they only have that right while you keep the content public on their site.
Mar 27, 2008 | 5:43 pm
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That's insane.
I double-checked Smugmug's TOS - fair and reasonable, as expected.
A company that depends on the photographer/artist/creative community for much of its revenue should know better.
I double-checked Smugmug's TOS - fair and reasonable, as expected.
A company that depends on the photographer/artist/creative community for much of its revenue should know better.
Mar 27, 2008 | 7:38 pm
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No thanks.
Mar 28, 2008 | 12:39 am
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There is some good news. I was looking around their site trying to find a way to contact them to express my displeasure and decided to check their forums for any information about this. It looks like a lot of people are upset and Adobe has responded by saying their legal team is "making it a priority" to change the TOS to reasonable terms.
Take a look here and here.
As long as they do it quickly then maybe this will be an interesting product.
Take a look here and here.
As long as they do it quickly then maybe this will be an interesting product.
Mar 28, 2008 | 6:27 am
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I have a dumb question, as I've never used the photo sharing sites, except dotmac web pages. With terms like Adobe gives, why wouldn't you just do your Photoshop in the private areas of the site and then repost the shots to another site where you like the terms? I realize it's not nearly as slick, but if PS has feature you really need.....
Mar 28, 2008 | 12:45 pm
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Two reasons for not using PS express for me:
1. I'm sure I'll mess up sometime and accidentally place a photo in public viewing, at which point, according to the TOS, Adobe gained a perpetual right to use it even if you didn't mean to make it public.
2. There's nothing I really need on there right now. This would be useful for quickly correcting some photo before posting it on the web while you're on the road and don't have a laptop with you. It certainly won't replace PS for real photographic work.
Thus, until Adobe removes this kind of language I don't want to risk my photographs (even though I doubt I'll ever sell any of them).
1. I'm sure I'll mess up sometime and accidentally place a photo in public viewing, at which point, according to the TOS, Adobe gained a perpetual right to use it even if you didn't mean to make it public.
2. There's nothing I really need on there right now. This would be useful for quickly correcting some photo before posting it on the web while you're on the road and don't have a laptop with you. It certainly won't replace PS for real photographic work.
Thus, until Adobe removes this kind of language I don't want to risk my photographs (even though I doubt I'll ever sell any of them).
Apr 1, 2008 | 1:46 pm
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Signed up and shared a private album with students in Europe. They can see it fine.
What I do not like about it is that I cannot find a way to permit downloads by people with whom I want to share.
What I do not like about it is that I cannot find a way to permit downloads by people with whom I want to share.
Apr 2, 2008 | 9:01 am
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