Photoshop Express Beta by Year's End

Great news, folks.

We'll have a beta of Photoshop Express, our much-anticipated online version of Photoshop, out by the end of this year. So, that means within the next month and a half or so. Not far away!

It'll probably be a private beta, or somewhat limited in the partners we give access to. Initially.

We'll be launching the gold version sometime next year. If you haven't heard of Photoshop Express, it's our 'express' version of Photoshop that'll be available online for free, built only using Flash/Flex. And by express, I mean it's not really the Photoshop we all know and love. It only will have some of the more basic, yet useful features. At least when we first launch it.

This is a true test for Adobe, because I said a few weeks ago that Adobe will be transitioning its products to the web in the next 10 years. Or something like that, anyway. This has been, and will be, a great experience and a great learning time for our developers. We appreciate your patience.

Google uses Flex for version of SearchMash

Adobe has always liked Google. I've always used Google. I think we used to package some Google Toolbar thing inside Reader because Google offered us too much money to deny. Adobe Reader is in the Google Pack of software.

And Google is now showing more love to Adobe. They've always used Flash for Google Finance's charts, but have you seen the Flash version of SearchMash, Google's experimental search engine?

Actually, they created it in Flex, which is really exciting for us to see. It runs smoothly, it runs well, and it's not too resource intensive.

The search results are really accurate as well. I bet it didn't take Google long to make it.