Adobe next Photoshop to get Widget Interaction?, Of course it will!

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Adobe next Photoshop to get Widget Interaction?, Of course it will!

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According to a blog post from John Nack, product manager of photoshop. Adobe plans to give the Adobe Creative suite extensibility via modular and non modular widgets. that pretty much means that we could see Adobe AIR widgets running certain elements of the Adobe Suite stand alone form the application in your desktop and network aware flex widget running those same elements online.

“We want to make Photoshop and the whole Creative Suite much more flexible, extensible, and connected. Therefore, we’re looking at letting upcoming versions of Photoshop and–as far as I know–all Creative Suite applications be extended via SWF panels (palettes) created in Adobe Flash or Flex.

Of course, this can’t come as a surprise. I mean, how brain-dead would Adobe have to be not to do this? The appeal of extending one’s app with lightweight, cross-platform, network-aware widgets is so obvious that we were busy building support in my first app some eight years ago“

That is not really a shocker.as John Nack also states Adobe is after all the creator of what is the basis of the most popular way to spread, develop and design widgets. but going further is also the only company that already expressed their intention to have their FULL creative suite not only be downloadable for desktop but running online by 2015 and make both versions identical. right now that might seem a stretch. but Adobe Air is at is 1.0 version, Flex is at 3.0 and Flash is going to reach its 10 version this year. by 2015 we are talking about AIR being at 4.0-5.0, Flex around 7.0 and Flash at 14. when taken that into perspective. then it don`t sees far fetched at all right?.

So having extended interactions with the software via widgets is the first step into that direction along they Creative Lite suite they are already forming with Photoshop Express as the first stone in that new foundation.

The intriguing part of that Adobe Future is how their software will end up being integrated into web services and applications.

Right now, John Nack ask the enthusiasts of that RIA powered future to step forward if they have Adobe as their weapon of choice while announcing that a notorious Adobe Tech Masher (Dr Woohoo) is already hard at work at gearing the suite into Flex and AIR which pretty much fills the gaps in my projections.

I will dare to say that we will see a full rooster of the lite online creative suite running in flex and AIR by 2010. the year when Adobe should also have their own competing Web Office solution complete and running the same way and the peripheral services (adobe share, AIRbase, Adobe Marketplace,Thermo, etc) also running at full steam.

via Webware