Adobe Photoshop Express – Review
March 29, 2008
By now, if you’re a designer or artist of any type, I’m sure you’ve heard at least some of the hype about Adobe’s free, on-line release of Photoshop. If not, please get caught up by checking out this post.
So, right off the bat, good things about Adobe Photoshop Express:
- FREE!!!
- With a name like Adobe, its gotta be good!
- On-line = easy access anywhere
- 2 Gigs of space?!?! YES!
Once you’ve created an account through the lovely Flash interface, and then received your confirmation e-mail and logged in, its time to upload! After you’ve uploaded and selected your first image to play with, you get a screen that looks something like this:
…nooot really enough options to be called Photoshop, although definitely Express! I think the term Photoshop is being used primarily to attract attention and gain users. Then again, it is the BETA version, sooo perhaps more options will be added later?!?
Here’s a shot of my “finished” product:
For every edit option you choose, the top bar displays around five-seven potential versions of that edit. You can see by the check marks which options I used on this photograph.
Overall, I’m not terribly impressed. And as seen by this post, its not even close to being more “advanced” than other on-line editors at this point.
Adobe…I must say you’ve somewhat failed me…
(Except for the lovely full version of CS3 that I personally own, so no real need for the on-line…but still! Its the principle of the thing!)
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dogeatery | March 29, 2008 at 1:04 pm
Or you could just download GIMP, which is also free and a VERY strong, open source, alternative to Photoshop.
http://www.gimp.org
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Sarah Taylor | April 1, 2008 at 8:06 pm
TOTALLY agree with you. It was announced on NPR a couple of weeks back and I had it on my to do list. It’s hilarious – because I went thru all the steps you listed and then got to the page where you can edit and I was so bummed. Should have google searched for reviews first, but figured if it’s Photoshop it’s got to be good. Great review – easy to read, concise, and right on target.
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