Adobe Systems opened up the Beta of Photoshop Express, today, its long-anticipated Web-based image editor aimed at the millions of consumers that want a simple way to touch up, share, and store photos.
Photoshop Express…is a significant departure from Adobe’s desktop software business and a big bet that it can make money offering Web services directly to consumers.
The application, which needs Flash Player 9 to run, pushes the limits of browser-based applications and will likely ratchet up the competition on the dozens of free and online photo-editing products available now…
Rather than only an image editor, Photoshop Express also has ties to social networking sites like Facebook and other image-sharing sites…
Web-based applications provide adequate solutions for most non-professional users. That won’t prevent “professionals” from whining about features shy of full-blown Photoshop CS.
Thanks, Helen
great thing from adobe. This type of photoshop was long over due and since google documents works so well. Web based photoshop will do really good for web users who don’t have enough money to buy and install the full version.
Since it works as a flash, Steve jobs might still stubbornly claim that flash us too slow for its showy iPhone and iPod touch and falsly claim that no one wants flash anymore. What a moron.
Interesting… but really, Elements costs what, 50-80 bucks? And most scanners seem to bundle PSE 5 for free.
If it stays free I’d use it. Otherwise, no.
PCMag has a list of online editors.
Splashup is pretty impressive. And free.
I’ve used Picassa several times to post photos for sharing. It is a big step down from PhotoShop. It is a very small, easy to use program that I highly recommended to those I posted the pictures for.
The big reason I went with Picassa was to use Google’s free photo storage. Will Adobe be doing the same?
Impressive. i will use it if nothing but online space. But good for quick tweaks. I already have Creative suite.
I tried this thing, and it is a steaming pile of poop! It looks nice, but if you read the EULA, you essentially give away all rights for your photos forever, to Adobe, and their minions. Picasa is a much better product, though it is not an online editor, it is basic, but has better functionality than this steaming heap. Adobe makes many good products that I have used for eons, but this is not one of them.
I am an huge fan of Photoshop express. I learned the full version for print production and discovered that the Express versions does just about anything you’d want … for a hundred bucks!
What a fantastic deal.
I quite upgrading, though. I upgraded to 5.00 and realized that it was too bloated … defeating the spirit of the Lite version. So I went back to 3.0 and still use it all the time. Fantastic product.
One of the beauties of Photoshop is its handing of large files, layers, masks, filters, etc. It’s hard to imagine that working on the web.
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