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So, the first app that some might miss is Skype. One of them is actually a common complain among Chromebook users, and the other one is more of a personal need. In this last week, there are only two apps that I missed. Pixlr for the win!Īcer C720 on the left, Samsung Chromebook on the right I often snap pictures of my (Paleo) food and post recipes on my blog, so I need some basic image manipulation: crop and resize are paramount, and if possible, some brightness-fixing. I must note here that if something like Pixlr didn’t exist for ChromeOS, I wouldn’t have bought the Chromebook.

#Pixlr chromebook Offline#

I only kept Caret (an offline text editor that I’m typing this review with right now), Pixlr Touch Up (offline basic image manipulation), two links to an online calculator (is there any good, offline one?), and to Amazon Kindle reader page. I installed a few third party Chrome apps/extensions but I found most of them to be largely useless.

Apart from that, I was up and running within 5-10 minutes. I only needed to move over my custom index.html page that I use as my startup page for years (I don’t use bookmarks or Chrome’s startup page, I use my own). All my bookmarks and information from my other Chrome browsers were automatically added to this laptop’s Chrome version, and so the switch was painless. The OS updated automatically as soon as it connected to the Internet, and rebooted fast too. The C720 is a fast booter too, definitely faster to boot than Ubuntu or Windows 7 on my previous DELL V130 laptop (Intel i3, HDD), and also faster than my husband’s Samsung Chromebook (Exynos, flash). The touchpad has the right size, position and responsiveness too. The ChromeOS function keys are really handy too, e.g. Its keyboard is easy to get accustomed to, and I had no trouble at all, coming from a radically different keyboard design on the DELL. The laptop feels very light, sturdy and of a good build quality.

Its battery life is rated for 8.5 hours but in real world usage rated at about 7 hours. It’s 0.8″ tall, and weighs just 2.76 lbs. It’s a Haswell architecture with a dual core Celeron, 2 GB of RAM, 16 GB flash, HDMI-out, 3 USB, webcam, Bluetooth, and a 1366×768 px screen. The Acer C720 is similar in specs to other Chromebooks currently on the market. So the Acer C720, at just $199, became my new laptop.

#Pixlr chromebook Pc#

And bam! You have control of your PC/Mac on your Chromebook! You can run any programs that your PC has remotely on your Chromebook.When my 3+ year old DELL laptop died a few weeks back, I decided to give Chromebooks a try.

#Pixlr chromebook code#

Enter the access code you received in step 5.

On your Chromebook click on “See and control a shared computer”.

#Pixlr chromebook install#

Install the same Chrome Remote Desktop Extension on your Chromebook.

Now (leaving the PC running) go to your Chromebook.

Open the Extension on the PC and select “Share this computer for another user to see and control”.

Install the Chrome Remote Desktop Extension on that PC.

Install the Google Chrome browser on that PC.

This means that you’ll need a PC (or Mac) running somewhere with Photoshop open and an internet connection from your Chromebook to that PC.

The next easiest way to get Photoshop on your Chromebook is to run Photoshop on your PC and stream it to your Chromebook. Photoshop is much more powerful and features a lot of needed tools for many people, especially professionals.

So you’ve tried Pixlr Editor and decided that you need Photoshop instead. To use it simply get on your chromebook and navigate to: Stream Photoshop from your PCĪll right. It features all the popular tools Photoshop has and it runs in the browser!

#Pixlr chromebook how to#

In order to enroll in Photoshop Streaming simply fill out the application form on the Adobe website! You can find it here: Use Pixlr Editor insteadĭo you actually need Photoshop? Or do you need the basic photoshop features? Before we move onto how to run Photoshop on your chromebook we should ask ourselves: is there another piece of software that will do all that we need it to do?įor the majority of people using Pixlr Editor instead of Photoshop will work just fine. If you’re enrolled in school (college/university) then your college might offer free membership in one of those programs! Right now Photoshop Streaming is limited to the following people: This means that even a $200 Chromebook can run Photoshop well! In other words Adobe is doing all the processor heavy lifting, all your Chromebook has to do is receive the stream. And it actually works great! Here’s what they do: Adobe runs the Photoshop software on their computer systems and then they stream that software to your Chromebook. Enroll in Photoshop StreamingĪdobe is working on a way to “stream” Photoshop to your Chromebook. Here are three easy ways to get Photoshop on your Chromebook. Chromebooks are amazing machines however you may, sooner or later, wish to run Photoshop again to get some productive graphic work done.