Photoshop.com becomes more social

 

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By Matthew Sparkes

Posted on 5 Nov 2008 at 11:57

Adobe is expected to roll out new social features to its Photoshop.com online image editing platform later this month, giving users more advanced ways to share photographs with friends and family.

The online tool already allows users to edit images, as well as providing storage space where photographs can be kept either privately, or publicly accessible from within a browser.

However, a new Adobe Integrated Runtime application, expected to be launched on 11 November, will allow people to automatically synchronise any images stored on their computer with their online storage space.

As well as this, the update will add several social networking style features, such as the ability to import contact lists from Google, Microsoft or Yahoo's webmail services, and to use those details to send photographs to contacts.

Additionally, users can choose to be notified when any of these contacts add new photographs, just as on social networking sites like Facebook.

The company also launched a mobile version of Photoshop earlier this year, which allows users to upload pictures taken on Windows Mobile devices straight to the service.