Adobe Photoshop Express Beta

Leave your comment Posted by admin | March 27th, 2008

Adobe’s Photoshop Express, its free, online version of Photoshop is live right now. Targeted at everyday consumers, it’s Photoshop stripped down to a pretty slick Flash 9-powered web app we got a demo of earlier today. It’s super easy to crop, adjust saturation or exposure, or perform several other simple, but solid photo tweaks, like pop color (pictured). You won’t be doing any heavy lifting with it, since you can’t work with layers, add text or do anything really awesome, like amazing Giz-style comic bubbles, but your mom will be able to make her pictures look better than ever.

One of the best features is that any change is reversible, and in any order—you can always go back to your original photo, or any step of the editing process. And because it’s just a Flash 9 app, it’ll run on any browser on Windows, OS X or Linux. Right now, it isn’t integrated with Photoshop, like say, .Mac. But that’s coming. A service aimed at pro users, with more storage, serious backup and other pro features is in the works, though it’ll carry a fee. (BTW, if there’s demand for more than 2GB free, they’ll pony up.) Here’s the whole press release, or you can just start playing with it right now.