Photoshop: The popular editing tool goes free on the Web

[babylonsister]

Photoshop: The popular editing tool goes free on the Web
Adobe Systems' new Photoshop Express website hosts a basic version of its ubiquitous software that lets users edit and share digital images.
By Chris Gaylord | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor

posted March 28, 2008 at 11:45 am EDT


Adobe Systems launched a new photo-editing website Thursday that blends its popular Photoshop software with the ease and community of social networks.

Photoshop Express which is now open to everyone as a "beta" test version, strips away both the complexity and the price tag of the original Photoshop. This free web-based editor offers tools for one-click cropping, color adjusting, and sharing.

Express comes from an impressive software pedigree. After years of being the industry standard, Photoshop is already the colloquial verb for manipulating images. But Photoshop Express is a far cry from the $649 professional Photoshop CS3. And that's the point.

"It's not trying to be 'Photoshop Online,' " says Geoff Baum, Adobe's director of Express products. Express targets the casual consumer – those who love taking pictures, but probably don't know what SLR stands for (it's single-lens reflex, in case you were wondering).

This point-and-shoot crowd has posted billions of images to online photo-sharing and social-networking sites such as Flickr and Facebook. Adobe hopes to reel in these millions of users with easy photo-editing tools and ways to connect all their photo-sharing favorites.

Users can upload images from their computer or grab pictures they've already posted to Photobucket, Facebook, or Picasa. Pictures can then be sorted into albums, arranged as slideshows, lightly polished, and shared with the world.

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http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0328/p25s04-stct.html

[SteinbachMB]

1. Now

maybe I'll start using it.

[patrice]

2. Thanks!! for this information.

:hi:

[biggerfishsmallpond]

3. really? AWESOME!

Google must be planning a new free photo editing app

[EOTE]

4. I believe they've already got one.

It's called Picassa and it's been available for a while now.

[pocoloco]

5. Don't have Gimp??

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIMP

[Shipwack]

6. A word of caution...

Joe Decker of Rockslide Photography has pointed out:

Adobe today announced the beta release of on-line photo editing and sharing software Adobe Photoshop Express. Apparently, any photograph you upload to it can be used by Adobe for whatever future commercial use they desire. From section 8 of their license agreement:

However, with respect to Your Content that you submit or make available for inclusion on publicly accessible areas of the Services, you grant Adobe a worldwide, royalty-free, nonexclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, and fully sublicensable license to use, distribute, derive revenue or other remuneration from, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, publicly perform and publicly display such Content (in whole or in part) and to incorporate such Content into other Materials or works in any format or medium now known or later developed.

Well, nevermind using that product, the idea that my image *could* be used on the back cover of Time without renumeration or credit just because I uploaded it itches, even if it’s rather unlikely. Doesn’t anyone actually read this stuff before it goes out?

I second the use of Picasa for casual photo editing... As for serious editing, I use Photoshop Elements (costs about $99), but if you don't mind a bit of a learning curve Gimp is very powerful.