March 27, 2008
Photoshop Express is Adobe’s massively multiplayer photo-sharing site
Posted Mar. 27, ’08, 8:42 AM PT by Dan Moren
Category | Photography
When we first started hearing whispers of an online version of Photoshop, our imaginations went a bit, well, crazy. But now that Adobe has drawn back the velvet curtain on the Photoshop Express Public Beta, we find ourselves potentially intrigued by the services on offer.
The idea is one-part Photoshop, one-part Flickr, all wrapped together in a Flash tortilla. Adobe will give you 2GB of free storage space to upload your photos (or suck them down from another site like Facebook, Photobucket, or Picasa). Once you’ve put up your pics, you can edit them with the suite of non-destructive built-in tools, and share them with other users either via Photoshop Express or by sending them back to the afore-mentioned sites.
I’ve only been mucking about with it briefly, and while it seems pretty slick, the Flash overhead is a little slow at times. I also made the mistake of uploading a bunch of full-resolution pictures—whoops. Also, there’re no printing options as of yet; the focus at the moment is on online photo-sharing, though Adobe suggested that they’d be working with third parties to bring printing services in the future.
Photoshop Express will remain free even after it’s out of beta, but Adobe plans on adding premium features in the next few months, including more storage space and more photo-editing features and effects.
I don’t know if this will be a major challenge to the likes of Flickr and Facebook for photo-sharing, but if you’re not thrilled with your current photo-sharing arrangement, it might be worth checking out.
[via Macworld]
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Agree about the Flash overhead; the thing is slooooow on my box. And it seems a little feature-shy besides. I played around with it a little last night, and my first impression is that Picnik kicks its ass.