Google is partnering with Adobe to bring a special cloud-based edition of popular photo editing software, Photoshop.
Chromebooks are not only attracting consumers with affordable pricing and cloud-based computing, but are also software developing firms. Google, the world's biggest internet search company, announced its plans to partner with Adobe to bring a special cloud-based edition of popular photo editing software, Photoshop.
According to Google, the new software will be available to students and teachers using Chromebooks in classrooms. The project is still in beta phase and will first be available to Creative Cloud subscribers. According to both companies, the software will be entirely based on Google's cloud-based Chrome OS and run within the Chrome browser on Windows devices as well. The cloud-based Photoshop will offer similar features and functions as in the desktop for unified experience, Mashable reports.
"[The] streaming version of Photoshop is designed to run straight from the cloud to your Chromebook. It's always up-to-date and fully integrated with Google Drive, so there's no need to download and re-upload files-just save your art directly from Photoshop to the cloud," Google's product manager, Stephen Konig, said in an official blog post . "For IT administrators, it's easy to manage, with no long client installation and one-click deployment to your team's Chromebooks."
The new partnership is a part of Google's ongoing effort to push Chromebooks to the mainstream. In a short period of time, Google's new laptops have challenged the dominance of Microsoft's Windows machines, thanks to the low-cost, affordable maintenance nature of the machine. Chromebooks have become a new favorite among students with exclusive offers like Drive for Education and more.
Adobe has started out the program, Project Photoshop Streaming, with a limited number of applicants in North America. The software firm has a list of eligibility criteria, which includes applicants to be qualified students or teachers.
