(Think of it as a virtual bulletin board and you wouldn’t be far off the mark.) Canvas lets you show your images and documents in a single visual space. Spaces is a shared repository of files for your team members. In the meantime, Adobe is enabling real cloud use with its new Creative Cloud Spaces and Creative Cloud Canvas. And even video-editing tools such as After Effects and Premiere Pro will be available on DaaS setups. As Adobe explains: 'The journey of bringing Creative Cloud to the web starts now with Photoshop on the Web in public beta, while Illustrator on the Web is debuting in private beta.' Eventually, most Creative Cloud programs, such as InDesign, Acrobat DC, and Fresco will be available as SaaS programs. And Creative Cloud subscribers can make light edits to those same files from their browsers. They can view and comment on your Photoshop or Illustrator files.

With the new Photoshop and Illustrator betas, users can share projects with anyone with a web browser. Today, if you want to run Creative Cloud Photoshop, you need a high-powered Windows PC or macOS Mac. Despite the name, it's not a SaaS offering. To use Creative Cloud Photoshop, or Creative Cloud Anything, you had to download a fat client to use it. This more is a case of cloud-washing: Slapping a cloud coating on essentially the same old program.

So, if you thought Photoshop's been available in the cloud all along, you thought wrong.

True, you can share files using its infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) storage, but you could always do that with network file-sharing or third-party cloud services such as Dropbox. Adobe Creative Cloud is neither a cloud nor a SaaS it’s a software rental licensing business model.

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