Adobe goes live with Photoshop Express: Free and online Photoshop

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Adobe went live with Photoshop Express (www.photoshop.com/express) today, their free and online version of Photoshop. Photoshop Express is basically just a scaled down version of Photoshop that runs over the net and uses Flash (sorry iPhone users.) The service is free to everyone in the US currently, and includes 2GB of free storage space and can grab your photo’s from Facebook, Myspace, and Picasa with Flickr support coming soon. What’s cool about this is that after you make your changes and save them, your respective service will show the new, saved version of your picture. The online application obviously has limitations as to what it can, and can not do. It’s great for basic features like cropping, editing brightness, exposure, and saturation, and color features like pop color, black and white, etc. It doesn’t have the pro-features that more professional users will need, however. A service aimed towards pros is in the works, though, and will have more pro-features, more storage space, and serious backups, but this service will carry a fee. Another great feature about Express is that every change is completely reversible and you can always revert back to the original or any other step of the editing process. One last feature is the online gallery. When you sign up for the service, you choose your very own URL (example.photoshop.com) and you can post the pictures you’ve uploaded and saved there for the world to see in what they call a “3D” gallery. The service seems very promising for now, and considering it’s free why not give it a try.

An online service similar to Photoshop Express is Picnik (www.picnik.com), another Flash based photo-editor with very similar features. I use Picnik all the time now and it’s especially easy to make an edit, click save, and download. After I get some practical use with both services, I’ll give you all a little run down on which I think is the better online, photo editor.

Keep in mind, both Adobe Photoshop Express and Picnik run completely through the internet and thus are compatible with Mac, Windows, and Linux.

via Gizmodo 

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