Chromebooks

Is anyone using a Chromebook to process photos? If so, how would you rate the experience? What photo processing application do you use?

I have a chromebook - a Lenovo one. I've not yet attempted to process any photos on it though, you can't install programs on a Chrombook and I don't know any photo processing web apps. If someone can chime in and suggest anything I'd be willing to give it a go.
I did use it just for looking at some holiday photos before I got back home to process them, it was fine for just scrolling through all my RAWs

MAGICAL ESKIMO wrote in post #17655982
I have a chromebook - a Lenovo one. I've not yet attempted to process any photos on it though, you can't install programs on a Chrombook and I don't know any photo processing web apps. If someone can chime in and suggest anything I'd be willing to give it a go.
I did use it just for looking at some holiday photos before I got back home to process them, it was fine for just scrolling through all my RAWs

Actually Photoshop can be done but you need an Internet connection. See http://www.pcworld.com …chromebooks-could-do.html where some other Chrome myths are debunked.

I've had a chromebook, and could only use Google apps on it. It's not that useful at all. They were cheap, and I got one because I wanted to carry it to meetings. At the end of the day, I returned it back to Amazon, and went and bought a 15" Macbook Pro exactly 10x the price. That is my personal story, but I was done with a Chromebook in 1 day.

If you ended up replacing your Chromebook with an expensive Macbook it sounds like you greatly overestimated a Chromebook's capabilities! Did you not already know you could only use Google apps on it? Because that's kind of the whole point of them.

I have a smasung chromebook, the $170 one from walmart. You can edit photos with Polarr, it is also on ios and android. It works pretty good but it is not a photoshop replacement. EDIT: I also no longer use my chromebook save for when I need long battery life. I bought a macbook pro from my local collage.

Snapseed is an amazing app for ios and Android. I don't have a Chromebook but from what I recall, it can install Android apps.

I picked up an ASUS Transformer t100. I have used LR for individual shots from adobe cloud and it does pretty good. Screen is just small. Have not done batch. Over all, it's great. I have my iTunes movie library on a micro sd, use dropbox for work stuff. Tablet when I want.

chaffinyo wrote in post #17674182
I have a smasung chromebook, the $170 one from walmart. You can edit photos with Polarr, it is also on ios and android. It works pretty good but it is not a photoshop replacement. EDIT: I also no longer use my chromebook save for when I need long battery life. I bought a macbook pro from my local collage.

Polarr is a great app. There is even a plugin for Chrome and Firefox so you can open images with just a mouse click. Because it's web based it will run fast even on a POS computer.
https://www.polarr.co/

Ralpho wrote in post #17653380
Is anyone using a Chromebook to process photos? If so, how would you rate the experience? What photo processing application do you use?

I have a Chromebook and love it. But I don't use it for photo processing. Depends on what kind of photos I guess. I wouldn't want to use the screen and trust the exposure level look and color in general. Hardware wise, it's ok for minor stuff, but you're going to be using an app or cloud service which can't be too horrible compared to using an app or something on a phone or tablet. I guess I need to find something and try it out so I can edit while on travel or something.

Very best,

AFAIK (by helping my neighbour with her book)You can't run android apps, only chrome os apps from the chrome store. chromebooks are only good for the kids or long battery life.

I asked a Google rep at Best Buy once about photo editing on a Chromebook, and he steered me away from it saying that I was well above who Chromebooks are designed for. He recommended I look at proper laptops or PCs.

If you're on a tablet, or are already dedicated to using Android to process photos, I use an app called Spinly or Eyeem. VSCO Cam or Snapseed work as well, just don't expect to do any advanced photoshop stuff on these. I think the Photos app also has some editing functionality in it.

Of course I knew, but was thinking to save up and squeeze up as much as possible from Google Apps. Fail.