I can't help it. It hardwired in my brain !!

Full-featured Slide-show Interface

One toadily neat feature of Photoshop Express is that you can create a beautifully rendered feature-rich slide-show from your photos, (take a look at one I created here.) and then generate a link to e-mail to your friends, or place on a web site. Even better, if you're a Facebook user, Photoshop Express has the benefit of a direct interface with the social network!

Down the Saas path We Go

This product sees Adobe joining the tide wave of companies that are working diligently to give us great reasons to return to their web pages; I must say, I'm lovin' the trend so far. In technical jargon, this new product is know as "Software-as-a-service" (Saas). With study after study solidifying the fact that dollars spent on web-based purchases are one of the few places that will continue to have positive numbers, we're not going to see this trend slow down anytime soon.

Still in Beta Test mode - Snafu's Possible

First of all, remember Photoshop Express is in beta testing mode right now. This means that there is a good likelihood that you'll run unto a few snafu's here and there. There's a handy-dandy feedback button to make it easy to let Adobe know if you do! I used the slide show tool to create a show from some images I shot at a house and garden show in the Orwin section of Winter Park this past April. There is a resize slider that appears when you hover over the upper right portion of the screen.

View Orwin Slide Show in Adobe Photoshop Express

Para além de contemplar a edição de imagens, a Adobe disponibiliza 2GB para alojamento e, ainda, possibilita a criação de galerias com bonitos efeitos de slide.

Fazit: Das Programm ist einfach empfehlenswert! Es wurde für ganz "normalen" Menschen kreiert, einfach in Handhabung und sieht wie eine Mischung von Adobe Photoshop Elements und Photoshop Album aus. Ansehen »

Aviary er en komplet Flash baseret grafik suite, der giver dig 14 design tools og kombinere det med sociale features.

Her er to demo's af noget af det Aviary tilbyder. Det ser godt nok sjovt ud, men det er næsten for imponerede. Mon ikke den sidste er en fed aprilsnar?

Produktet er fortsat i private beta, så vi må vente lidt med at prøve det selv.

web based and free? uh huh.

keep in mind - this isn't built for the Photoshop guru.. this is meant to be a suggestion to those who want to slightly improve their photos on the cheap. this is geared towards the myspace and facebook crowds.  no palettes, no menus, nothing you would expect on the Photoshop interface. this isn't a skimpy version of Photoshop either - this is what appears to be a rather intuitive web tool that i think will really take off.  check out Scott Kelby's quick review of photoshop express.

Photoshop Express has such great Flash-based online galleries, and you can post your images there for free (you get 2 Gig of online storage free), and put a web gallery of your work online today, with no Web experience whatsoever...

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learn more about the interface with Matt Kloskowski's in depth review.

be sure to take a test drive with Photoshop Express.

For the full press release please see:

http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressreleases/200803/032708PhotoshopExpress.html

Adobe is calling it "Photoshop Express".

Photoshop Express is entirely Web-based. It can be used with any type of browser, computer, and operating system.

Adobe says providing Photoshop Express for free is part marketing and part a strategy to create up-sell opportunities. Adobe hopes some customers will move from it to boxed software like its $99 Photoshop Elements or to a subscription-based version of Photoshop Express that's in the works.

Ron Glaz, a research analyst at IDC, stated "It's one of those things, if you can't beat them, join them. If they don't join them, the long run could be really painful."

A free version of Photoshop is long overdue IMO; we've long had several image based free software options, such as the storage solution Shutterfly Inc., photo-editing service Picnik, and the image-sharing site Photobucket Inc.

Then there is:

Better late than never?

Photoshop Express is available in Beta, and Adobe encourages our feedback on how to improve it. What we like, what we despise, what's missing, what puts us to sleep. Adobe has opened a spot to sound off on Facebook, their Facebook page is here. Adobe seems to have an affinity with Facebook, for instance there is also the ability to use Photoshop Express to edit already posted Facebook pictures without leaving the web.

Photoshop Express offers 2GB of space for free image storage. Before joining and uploading your own images, you can take a 'test drive', and use images made available by Adobe to tinker with. On the left-hand side of the test drive screen there is a link to three more sites; Photobucket, Picasa, and of course, Facebook.

Notice in the top right hand corner is a little blue square; clicking on this little box provides the ability to switch from running Photoshop Express full-screen, or inside your web browser window.

Images can be viewed in a Table View, which includes the date the photo was taken, posted, modified, and bits of other image data. There is also the option of viewing images as a grid, or a single photo.

How Adobe's Photoshop Express will stack up to our other free options already available is yet to be seen. Providing a free version of software already a verb among the tech-savvy is at least a step in the right direction.

If you've tried Photoshop Express or know others that have, what do you think? How does it compare to the other free image software solutions already available, and... how does it compare to the pay-for version of Photoshop?

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OK guys here's the hottest news of the week.

Adobe have launched their unique online version of a Photo storage system. But wait!!! It's more than just a photo storage area ... it's also a photo editing area too!! You get 2 GB of storage AND the ability to edit your photos.

But best of all .... IT'S FREE!!!

So what are you waiting for? Go to Adobe Photoshop Express website - Here's the link and sign up today.

I have just opened my account and to upload about 30 photos and set up the albums took me about 20 minutes. It truly is fantastic!!! Check it out today

Also, for a quick tutorial on this fantastic new product - check out Scott Kelby's You Tube video below

And you can check out a unique website by clicking HERE 

AND ... finally - you cancheck out MY photoshop Express website by clicking HERE

Right off the bat, I am impressed with the layout. Since I use Photoshop and have used other photo manipulation programs from Adobe like Lightroom I was put right at ease with the layout. Things like bulk upload and creating albums were simple and intuitive. For bulk upload you open a folder and use [Shift] or [Ctrl] to select the images you want. To create an album you can either drag a photo/group of photos from your browser and drop them onto the + sign next to the album list or you can click on the plus sign and create a new album with no content.

Manipulating photos is also a breeze, just click on a picture and you're presented with several options like crop, saturation, hue, and so on. No, you old photoshop dogs, you can't mess with the curves or change the levels. Sorry, this is for beginners.

And that's the idea behind the program: get beginners hooked on photoshop.  If you take the program for what it sets out to do then it's doing an outstanding job. If you're expecting more, you may be disappointed, but then you're probably the kind of person who's disappointed when he hears that there's free ice cream, but it's only Chocolate ice-cream.

One of the other interesting features is that there are api's for Facebook, Photobucket,  and Picasa.  You click on the link, put in your username and password and the application downloads your images.  What a neat idea.  Let's put aside the security concerns (you're passing your username and password through another system...) and just deal with the functionality.  In a single interface I can download, manipulate, and upload a photo from another photo storage site.  That's pretty darned cool.

Unfortunately, they only have Facebook, Photobucket, and Picasa right now.  I would expect to see MySpace, flickr, and others populating soon.

The other cool thing the system does is it uploads the EXIF data.  Right now it only makes use of the date portion (as far as I can tell) but there might be more functionality coming on line for that feature as well.

It's not all strawberries and rhubarb though. The beta launched today and so a bit of slowness is to be expected, but there were times when I wanted to rip my hair out.  Uploads were slow, manipulations are slow, and in more than one instance the whole application just froze up.  I also found that it runs better in Internet Explorer than it does in Firefox, which I don't like.  In fact, Firefox crashed twice during my testing.  Again, this is stuff that will get worked out over time, but it's a bit frustrating now (it's a Beta test!  calm down!)

The UI was also a bit frustrating, every time you delete a picture, it jumps you back to the top of your photo list.  With the time delays as it reloaded the whole gallery after every delete and then jumped you back to the top I was cringing.

The other odd thing was I must have spent a half an hour looking for the place to set my profile image.  In most of these social networking types of sites it's in your profile.  But here you have to click on the photo you want to use and select the option from a long list.  They'll fix this I'm sure.

But other than that, it's a darned cool program.  It lets me set metadata, sort, organize, do basic manipulation, pull photos from other storage sites, and present my pictures in a little gallery.

Not bad for free.

Go check it out.

(My gallery is at http://bostelle.photoshop.com)

Un Photoshop gratuit, sans installation, permettant de retoucher et de stocker jusqu'à 2 Go d'images sur le serveur dédié d'Adobe afin de les partager voire de les importer directement dans Facebook, Picasa ou Photobucket : voici ce que propose Photoshop Express qui est accessible par tous en cliquant ICI. Pour bénéficier du service dans son intégralité, il suffit simplement de créer un profil utilisateur et le tour est joué. Pour l'instant en version bêta, Express ne dispose que d'une interface en anglais. Gageons qu'en suite de l'expérimentation, Adobe fera le nécessaire pour en élargir l'accès.

Penchons-nous tout d'abord sur la vocation de cette nouvelle déclinaison "light" de l'usine créative qu'est Photoshop. Evidemment on s'en doute, Express ne remplit pas les mêmes fonctions que le redoutable CS3. Il se concentre sur la partie retouche et traitement d'images / photographies. Sachant que ce seul point pourrait faire émettre des doutes quant au répondant d'un tel service en ligne, on dira pour commencer qu'Adobe, fidèle à sa réputation d'excellence, a bien œuvré : les opérations s'effectuent avec fluidité et comme nous allons le voir, l'ergonomie est loin d'avoir été négligée.

Ci-dessous : l'écran principal affiché à l'ouverture d'une image en vue d'effectuer des opérations de retouche.

Du côté de l'interfaçage, Photoshop Express affiche sobriété et simplicité. Le visuel épuré mettra d'emblée en confiance les novices qui ne se trouveront pas d'un coup d'un seul étourdis par une nuée d'icônes dont on ne sait que faire. Petit bonus : il est possible de basculer l'affichage de Photoshop Express en plein écran ce qui fait presque oublier qu'on travaille totalement online.

Première opération à réaliser : uploader une (ou des) photo(s) que vous souhaitez retravailler. Vous allez pouvoir organiser celles-ci dans des albums afin de vous y retrouver. Basiquement, chaque image est représentée par une vignette sous laquelle se déroule un menu pour effectuer des opérations simples : rotation, téléchargement, envoi par e-mail... L'option "Edit photo" permet de basculer la photo concernée vers l'espace de travail en vue d'être retouchée.

A l'ouverture d'un fichier image, seul saute aux yeux le menu des actions possibles qui prend position à gauche de l'écran (ci-contre à gauche). Il se décompose en trois ensembles : "Basics" qui contient les outils de recadrage, correction des yeux rouges, correction de l'exposition etc... Concernant le recadrage, on regrettera simplement que la touche Maj ne soit pas active pour travailler l'homothétie. L'outil anti-yeux rouges donne pour sa part des résultats probants. La partie "Tuning" autorise quant à elle des réglages de balance des blancs, de luminosité, de netteté des contours... Enfin pour finir, on trouve dans "Effects" le moyen d'agir sur la teinte, la saturation et d'obtenir certains redus artistiques (effet pop-art, déformations...). On le voit, l'agencement des opérations obéit à une logique progressive.

Cela-dit, tout cela n'est-il pas déjà compliqué lorsqu'on ne connaît pas grand chose à ce genre d'application ? Eh bien non ! Pour la simple et bonne raison que pour chaque outil, d'une part les réglages personnalisés demeurent minimes et abordables et d'autre part, qu'un système de vignettes vous donne un aperçu des divers rendus possibles "par défaut" avec l'outil en cours. Mieux encore, il suffit de survoler ces aperçus avec le pointeur de souris pour constater leur impact sur l'image principale. Un clic sur la vignette achèvera d'appliquer l'effet désiré. Simple comme bonjour.

Ci-dessous : lorsque vous sélectionnez un outil ("saturation" dans cet exemple), un vignettage vous permet de visualiser les divers effets applicables.

Bien entendu, que serait une telle application sans la possibilité de d'annuler l'opération que vous venez d'effectuer ? Ainsi, on retrouve les classiques boutons "précédent" et "suivant", discrets mais bien repérables en bas à gauche de l'interface. Toujours mieux, un clic sur le petit triangle jaune positionné entre ces deux derniers affiche un historique visuel de vos manipulations ! Revenir plusieurs étapes en arrière ne pose donc aucun problème. Il suffit de cliquer sur la vignette à partir de laquelle vous voulez reprendre le travail. Sans compter que quoi qu'il arrive, tant que vos modifications n'ont pas été sauvegardées, vous pouvez repartir de l'image originale grâce à un simple bouton : "Reset all". Enfin, on signalera la présence de boutons de zoom + et - grâce auxquels vous pourrez admirer vos œuvres au pixel près.

Ci-dessous : focus sur la zone contenant les boutons de zoom, "précédent", "suivant" et l'historique visuel (ce dernier élément étant bien pensé).

Conclusion ? Photoshop Express est un outil convivial et simple d'emploi qui saura faire le bonheur des novices auxquels il se destine par nature. Son approche technique simple permet en plus de corriger les traditionnels paramètres d'une photo avec aisance, d'obtenir quelques effets fantaisie appréciables sans devoir être un infographiste aguerri. Couplé à des possibilités directes de partage en ligne, Express devrait s'attirer bon nombre de sympathisants. Si les utilisateurs avertis de logiciels de retouche trouveront forcément les possibilités limitées, ne nous y trompons pas ! Photoshop Express pourra également leur rendre de fiers services. Imaginez simplement un instant que vous partez en vacances à l'autre bout du globe et que vous souhaitez basculer vos photos numériques sur votre blog en devant les retravailler un poil. Il suffira de trouver un accès internet. Vous suivez ? Sans compter que chaque photo stockée dans vos albums possède un code "embed" et une URL propre ! Vous l'aurez compris, un petit détour par Photoshop Express vaut le coup, ne serait-ce que pour s'en faire une idée plus précise.

There are some other cool features that will encourage the mass acceptance:

1.  Easy to use - a demo showed that a picture could be edited in minutes (I have not tested it myself)

2. Photoshop Express provides users to connect with popular online services like Facebook, Photobucket or Picasa (Flickr will also be added shortly). This will increase the acceptance rate of this software.

I hope that this platform will provide common users a nice experience of picture editing. When I tried to join the adobe photoexpress then first it asked me to install Adobe Flash Player 9. I did not like this obstruction. Adobe would have allowed me to register without installing Flash 9 and would have asked to install Flash 9 later.

Just launched today, free version of the Adobe Photoshop, well online version anyway. So now if you wondered what your Canon G9 images would look like processed in Photoshop you can find out.

You can have your own gallery, browse other peoples work and share photos too . Further the Photoshop Express version works from any browser and operating system so it might be useful to some pros working in the remote back yard.

Photoshop Express is currently a basic version in beta testing....I am going to break of now for some testing:)

On the Web: http://www.photoshop.com/express