Comments on: Photoshop Express - beta version

Photoshop Express - beta version

HuronBob — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 05:47:46 -0800

Photoshop Express Adobe has launched a beta version of its Photoshop Express image hosting and editing site. Two gigs of storage and some basic editing tools. A neat feature is being able to connect to your Picassa page and edit those photos as well.

By: davem

davem — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 06:17:20 -0800

It's a good show piece for what Flash and Flex can do, but it certainly deserves the 'Express' tag at the moment - not much in common with the 'real' PS at all. I'll stick with Picnik for now, but commend Adobe for a move in the right direction.

By: R. Mutt

R. Mutt — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 06:27:47 -0800

Interesting. But yeah, I think anything with PS as the brand needs to do a bit more than this. Also, those gold colored cartoonish "albums" look horrible - who imposed THAT on the designers?

By: sandraregina

sandraregina — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 06:41:59 -0800

When I have some time to play with this I think I will test it. I'm always looking for free and relatively easy photo manipulation software. I'm not an artist, I just want to reduce red-eye and maybe fix some poor light. Simple things.

By: LondonYank

LondonYank — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 07:20:57 -0800

Er, Photobucket and Picasa, but no Flickr integration? Eh? Also, it's a good first step, but not as polished as Picnik - especially try to do a decent crop in the Test Drive section, it magnifies the original image and you get all kinds of jaggies. Nice.

By: Artw

Artw — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 09:25:45 -0800

Bah, I miss having jobs where the expense of getting me a real copy of Photoshop could be justified.

By: damn dirty ape

damn dirty ape — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 09:54:14 -0800

I'm curious as to how the feature set compares to some free alternatives like Paint.net.

By: Weebot

Weebot — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:59:12 -0800

People pay for Photoshop?

By: Artw

Artw — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:02:03 -0800

Other people pay for photoshop. What am I, made of money?

By: pkerr1975

pkerr1975 — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:24:39 -0800

i didn't get to read about any of the details as I couldn't stop playing with the graphic at the top of the page.

By: kryptondog

kryptondog — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:13:54 -0800

I agree that it's a great example of Flex in action, along with Buzzword (which is one of the few online word processors I've tried that's actually felt like a program, and an attractive one at that). The feature set is a bit meager, but hopefully that will change with time. Perhaps they'll offer an "advanced" version for a price at some point down the line. What would be really cool would be a way for regular Photoshop users to "connect" somehow to their online PS Express image collection and edit the pictures therein in (semi) real-time. Do the heavy stuff on your computer that has Photoshop and then do minor touch-up work from any computer with an internet connection. Of course, there's still not enough features to even make that worth it, but maybe with time.