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Announced in September, Streaming Photoshop is Google's plan to bring desktop-only apps to its web-only Chrome OS. [...] For Streaming Photoshop, [however, Adobe and Google] actually run the full-fledged desktop app on a server, stream a video of that app to your browser, and use JavaScript to watch for click events.

What a workaround.

Right now, the experiment is being tested with 1,689 users, according to Chrome Web Store data, but Adobe tells us it's "ramping it up pretty quickly." Still, Adobe only let us watch the app in action--we couldn't play with it ourselves. The app is rolling out slowly to Adobe Education customers, and the company declined to share when it will become more widely available.

[...]The app "usually takes about 10 seconds" to launch, Adobe tells us.

"It's the full photoshop UI, [but] 3D is not available--the server we're using does not have GPU yet. Also printing, but in general you have the entire functionality," the company says.

Streaming Photoshop uses Google Drive to open and save files.
The web app runs on any computer that can run the Chrome browser, including Macs.
Standard image adjustments and effects, including "Brightness/Contrast," appeared snappy during the demo.

OMG! Chrome! notes

You don't download and install Photoshop locally. Instead, you install a small app from the Chrome Web Store [then open] Photoshop on a Google virtual machine in a Google data center--delivering high-end performance on a low-end device.