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Adobe Photoshop Express is a free version of photoshop and it is web base software. The function availabe is very limited, and it is mainly for picture editing. This service is very similar to Picnik and FotoFlexer which are currently offering their service for free too. Currently Photoshop Express is still lack of features even compare to those photo editing software. While Fauxto is buggy, it is the closest feature you could get for a drawing software online.

Hopefully Photoshop will bring it up a notch and provide more feature online.

SPRY is actually in beta stage, currently sitting at Adobe Labs. From the description and the explanation of this piece of framework. It seems that it could actually help a lot of webmaster out there who have little knowledge to produce a website with nifty features using AJAX.

Basic knowledge is still required but it definately seems that a very minimal amount of knowledge will do the job.

Spry is a JavaScript-based framework that enables the rapid development of Ajax-powered web pages. Not a JavaScript guru? No problem. Spry was designed to feel like an extension of HTML and CSS, so anyone with basic web-production skills can create next-generation web experiences by adding the power of Ajax to their pages.

Spry can be used with any server-side technology (ColdFusion, PHP, ASP.Net etc.). By building the front-end of your web application with Spry you enable a more efficient designer-developer workflow by keeping UI separated from back-end application logic.

[download SPRY framework]

It is always interesting to find out what people can do with photoshop, as everyone has their own artistic mind, Photoshop provides the tool to realize their thoughts.

This is not a tutorial but it is the after effect of photoshop with an artistic mind.


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Picture worth a thousand words, and pictures taken with a camera is almost never perfect. Phoshop is always the best alternatives to have to picture fixed, framed and placed in your living room.

Adobe is trying out some file sharing program. They are currently having it in beta and you could subscribe to it already. As expected, it is fully flash based and you will have 1024mb of space (1GB). I am able to upload a picture, files or movie and use the embed code to post them from my blog. This is something useful.

Like any file sharing websites, you are able to do the follwing with Adobe Share:-

• Send documents without email attachments.
• Access your documents from anywhere.
• View all the documents you have shared or received in one place.
• Post a link to your document on a wiki or blog.
• Embed a Flash® preview of your document on any website. – Sound good, but it is not available yet.
• Limit access to a document to a list of recipients.

The good things is that Adobe is opening up for other developers to have Adobe Share embedded in different programs or websites. If you are a web developer, take a look at their Adobe Share API, maybe it will be plus to have this on your script / program.

Check out Adobe Share

Or other stuff from Adobe Labs

Photoshop is a pretty nifty tool when you know how to use the tool properly. Therefore, photoshop tutorial is pretty useful to learn more and more about ways you can manipulate you pictures with Photoshop.

Photoshop matte painting is what this tutorial about, the effect of it is pretty useful but the steps to isolate the building and some bushes using polygonal lasso tool is going to be hard.

Here is the before and after look at Photoshop matte painting.