Adobe demos web-based Photoshop

Back in March, we reported that Adobe CEO Bruce Chizen hoped to launch a free, web-based version of Photoshop within six months. It seemed like a pretty audacious claim at the time but it now looks like the company just might pull it off. At this week's Photoshop World conference in Las Vegas, John Loiacono, senior vice president of Adobe's Creative Solutions Business Unit, gave visitors a brief demonstration of Photoshop Express, which will be aimed at the low-end consumer market. "It's a new member of the Photoshop family that's meant to make Adobe imaging technology immediately accessible... to large numbers of people," Photoshop product manager John Nack wrote in a blog post yesterday. Photoshop Express is a flash application that runs directly in a web-browser; Adobe hasn't yet commented on the product's release date, other than to stress that the app is "still in development".

For more on Photoshop Express:
- see this CNET article