Adobe Photoshop May Become Free For All: Here's Everything You Should Know About It

Adobe Photoshop is now being tested in Canada where Photoshop users on the web can access all its features via a free Adobe account.

The company has started testing a free version of Photoshop on the web. Image: Getty

In good news for Adobe Photoshop users, the company has started testing a free version of Photoshop on the web. According to multiple reports, Adobe is testing the free version of Photoshop on the web in Canada. It is not yet known when it will be available in India.

Adobe Photoshop is now being tested in Canada where Photoshop users on the web can access all its features via a free Adobe account, said a report by The Verge. The company “plans to open the service up to everyone as a way to introduce more users to the app.

“We want to make [Photoshop] more accessible and easier for more people to try it out and experience the product,” Maria Yap, Adobe’s VP of digital imaging was quoted as saying in the report.

This comes at a time when the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) has recently issued an advisory over multiple vulnerabilities in Adobe products that could help hackers infiltrate into computer systems. The bugs were reported in Adobe products like InDesign (along with earlier versions for Windows and macOS), InCopy, Illustrator, Bridge and Animate (and earlier versions for Windows and macOS).

These vulnerabilities, according to the national cyber-security agency, exist in Adobe products due to "improper Input Validation, improper authorisation, heap-based buffer overflow, out-of-bounds Write, out-of-bounds read and use after free flaws".

An attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities by persuading the victim to open a specially crafted file or application, the CERT-In advisory read.