Photoshop Express
Photoshop Express, Adobe’s much anticipated web based image editor, went live today.
It comes with 2G of storage and needs Flash player 9 to work. My Firefox wouldn’t even see the application, Express performed admirably in both Firefox and IE7.
It reminds me of Photoshop Elements, actually. Though Elements is more thorough, and allows the use of layers.
I uploaded a picture of Bree to play with. This is the photo’s thumbnail in the gallery view. Options are available by mousing over the picture.
Click to enlarge!
This is a full screen capture, complete with stationary toolbars.
My favorite tools are the white balance, fill white, pop color and hue toggles.
I wrote about Photoshop Express back in September with a touch of doubt. Well, I listed NINE online photo editors that work just fine in the same post. Though a natural cynic, I wanted to hope that Adobe would raise the bar a bit.
That has not happened. Photoshop Express is not a stand out app, and though slick, I’m now asking “What’s the point?”
CNET has an in-depth review of PE.
EDIT 3.30.08
Adobe is rewriting a clause in its terms of service after public outcry over a statement included in Photoshop Express usage rights.
…you grant Adobe a worldwide, royalty-free, nonexclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, and fully sublicensable license to use, distribute, derive revenue or other remuneration from, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, publicly perform and publicly display such Content and to incorporate such Content into other Materials or works in any format or medium now known or later developed.
Yeah, that’s scary.
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I actually have Photoshop and Photoshop Elements. But I have used some of the online editors listed in the post on pamibe and most of them are at least as powerful as PE. A few give you more options, like layers, talk bubbles… fun things. 
I think Adobe could have gone the extra mile with PE, obviously. BUT, if you want to correct and resize your photos, it does a great job. Try it, you might like it…
Thanks I’ll have a look. I have an older version of their free ’starter’ album (or something like that). I downloaded it thinking it would do the minor things… but for the life of me, I could NOT find a way to resize the images. Thus I went with the other freebee (oddly enough it has this cute little menu item called “resize/resample” what a concept!). I probably missed something in the menus - but I figure if they hid it that well that’s just damned annoying. Heh.
I know what you mean; I hated that ‘album’ thing they put out… I couldn’t find a use for it! :???:
So do you use an online editor or do you have one you’ve bought for yourself? Mostly what I need is a resizing function. I use IrfanView for this - downloaded it for free and since I seldom do more than resize or cut a portion of a picture - it has worked okay I guess. I’d like something a little easier but there it is - what I do is not worth investing money in.