Adobe Photoshop Express Web-Based Editor!

[David Kennedy]

Craziness--a version of Photoshop that you use online through your web browser. Apparently, it's supposed to attract young'uns like me. Well, sort of: http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-990...l?tag=nefd.pop. Here's the official web site: https://www.photoshop.com/express/landing.html

A "serious" editor it probably will not be, but for a lot of people who want to tweak their photos but don't have the wherewithal to own a lot of software, this could be a solution.

Edit: After playing with the "Test drive," I would say that it reminds me a fair amount of Lightroom, only in web-site form and without some of the "power features." Still, I know a lot of people who would love to have these options but wouldn't even consider buying something like Photoshop Elements.

[Chris Ober]

You beat me posting by about 30 seconds :)

[David Kennedy]

You beat me posting by about 30 seconds :)

Try an hour and thirty seconds :D:D:D

[Chris Ober]

Wow....time to get my eyes checked. I swear I didn't see this earlier! :)

[Marc Oliver]

For anyone tempted to use this - make sure that you read & understand the terms of use!

http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/con...id=7-9308-9358

cheers,
Oliver

[David Kennedy]

Oliver,
Thanks for that--I hadn't seen Rob's piece. I suppose I would not be that surprised that Adobe has a clause that effectively says "if you use our service to showcase your images in a publicly-accessible gallery, we may use them for advertising." I cannot say with certainty, but I would not be surprised if Yahoo!'s Flickr or Google's Picasa photo sharing services didn't include similiar provisions.

Reading between the lines, if you're using it solely for editing your own images, and do not use the gallery feature, your images cannot be used be Adobe, but I'm not a lawyer. However, for the target audience, it may not matter.

[Marc Oliver]

Many companies do this unfortunately. I've got nothing against Adobe, or PS Express for that matter. I just really dislike the way this stuff is always hidden in the fine print - which most people never read.

cheers,
Oliver

[David Kennedy]

It looks like Adobe is going to revisit the legal terms of use, at least according to dpreview.

[Jim Poor]

Here are the revised terms:

https://www.photoshop.com/express/pxterms.html

[Chris Ober]

Has anyone else set up an account? It has a lightroomy (new word :) ) feel to it. Browsing through galleries/albums is a bit sluggish compared to Flickr but the interface and look is quite nice. It's default of starting a slideshow upon viewing images is annoying. No, I don't want a slide-show every time I click on a *^#$%# image, tyvm! :) Full-screen mode is nice but they disable the keyboard so you can forget about searching anything without having to switch back to window mode.

[David Kennedy]

I haven't yet set one up, but plan to do it for my Mom to use for the photos from her point-and-shoot. I'm just glad that something like this has come out so I don't have to teach her how to use a more complicated program.