Adobe Photoshop comes to Chromebooks as a streaming service

Photoshop on Chromebook Pixel

I often hear people dismiss Chromebook because “It can’t run Photoshop!” Well, you can cross that off the list: Adobe and Google announced Photoshop for Chromebooks on Monday.

Photoshop on Chromebook Pixel

 

You won’t be installing Adobe’s software on your Chromebook, though. Instead, the company worked with Google to create Project Photoshop Streaming, which is integrated with Google Drive and available to remotely access from a Chromebook. You can stream the app from the cloud or another Windows machine to a Chromebook or Chromebox:

This 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. For IT administrators, it’s easy to manage, with no long client installation and one-click deployment to your team’s Chromebooks.

Adobe says this is a beta version and will first be available to select education customers in North America who subscribe to Creative Cloud and register here. I’d expect a wider rollout to follow the beta program so that any Chrome OS user can access Photoshop in the cloud, but Adobe hasn’t shared any detailed timelines.

Note that the official announcement from Google says this is a Creative Cloud version for Chrome OS “initially with a streaming version of Photoshop.” I take that to mean more Adobe products could potentially be added in the future.

 

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