Adobe Systems has committed to shipping a beta version of its online image-editing tool, Photoshop Express, this year, and said it will be complete in 2008.
“By late this year, we anticipate having a beta version,” said John Loiacono, senior vice president for Adobe Creative Solutions, speaking at the 6sight digital imaging conference here. And next year, the online service will be “available to anyone,” he said.
In addition to being absolutely beautiful, Buzzword is ridiculously easy to use. Even people who don’t understand common icons could effortlessly process a document in Buzzword, because the name of each tool pops up when you mouse over an icon. And all the basic tools are there–insert tables, images, lists, comments, headers, or footers without searching through long menus. It does spell check, but it doesn’t have a word count tool or many fonts to choose from yet. Additionally, I’ve had some issues when it comes to using some of the tools (especially copy).
