Adobe Launches Photoshop Express
March 27, 2008
By: Michael Price
Author's Website: http://www.zillow.com
Adobe Systems has finally unveiled it’s online photo editing and sharing application, dubbed Photoshop Express. According to Adobe, what you’ll see promises pushes the boundaries of web based applications to new limits. The application is free to use and even includes 2 gigs of online storage. The app will require Flash 9 to be installed and was built from the ground up by Adobe engineers using Adobe’s Flex Development Framework. Adobe plans to provide an offline client using AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime). The AIR app will allow people to work offline with images. I’ve seen several comparisons to that of Google’s Picasa service. I have not personally tested Picasa because I am a Mac user and Picasa requires a windows based install to work.
I think an easy to use, free, platform independent tool for managing digital photos will be a real plus for the real estate industry. I’d love to give you a few screen shots and a more in depth review, however, as of writing this post I am still awaiting my verification e-mail from Adobe to activate my account. Looks like there are quite a few people in the queue to try out Express. As soon as I’ve had a chance to work with it a bit, I will come back and update this post. If you’ve tried it out, let us know what you think of it!
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G. Dewald on March 27, 2008 8:23 am
How about Flickr? If all you’re after is online photo storage with the ability to embed in your website it’s excellent. Does a lot more too if you get in depth with it.
You can’t edit photos with Flickr but it is easy to use, free and platform independent. The paid version (allows more uploads though the free version is quite generous) is ridiculously cheap as well.
Michael Price on March 27, 2008 8:28 am
Flickr is great as far as sharing goes, but as you point out, it has no editing feature. My primary concern recently has been to find a very, very, simple way for agents to resize photos for use in web applications.
Michael Price on March 27, 2008 8:29 am
Just received my activation key and when I tried to activate it failed stating that It was already activated. Logging in failed. Not off to a good start. I had to create an entirely new account.
Tripp Fenderson on March 27, 2008 8:47 am
2 points to make:
1. As of December 2007, you can edit photos in Flickr. They partnered with Picnik – http://www.picnik.com/. Upload an image to flickr and then go to the photo’s page. Above the image, you’ll see a button to Edit Photo, just to the left of the Delete button.
2. You should carefully read Adobe’s terms of service before using their service. By posting your images in publicly available areas, you grant Adobe full rights to use your images in any way they see fit.
G. Dewald on March 27, 2008 8:47 am
A resize-only tool for images online can be found at http://www.shrinkpictures.com/ (ugly interface but it works). It only scales, doesn’t crop.
Turns out Flickr does have an edit tool, it connects to Picnik automagically. They must have added that feature when I wasn’t looking. Scale, crop, auto-level, resize, sharpen, redeye, brightness/contrast.
Maybe give it a whirl while you wait for Adobe.
Michael Price on March 27, 2008 9:00 am
I saw that in a review I was reading a few minutes ago. I think before using the sharing feature people should wait for Adobe to come to their senses regarding their TOS. I will check out the features of Picnik and shrinkpictures.com. Thanks for the great input!
Californian Real Estate Guy on March 27, 2008 9:11 am
The resize tool in Flickr works ok and the fact that it’s free to use is a nice perk. I’m sure Adobe’s will be heavy on feature (haven’t seen it myself) but if I was a serious about taking photo’s I’m not sure I would like what their terms of service says.
Todd Carpenter on March 27, 2008 9:12 am
I’ve been waiting since 3:oo this morning for my confirmation email. Glad to see it’s not me.
Thomas on March 27, 2008 9:44 am
Very interesting, but considering the feedback here and what I gleaned from reading through said TOS, I think it’s a “wait and see” for me as well.
Thanks for the info, however.
Todd Carpenter on March 27, 2008 2:14 pm
I got in, and overall, it’s pretty cool. Here’s my review. http://www.brainious.com/?p=49
Dee Copeland on March 27, 2008 5:04 pm
I use ImageWell and really liked it because Photoshop is so complex. I think once you use it, it works well, but I just don’t have time to learn.
I’d be willing to try PSE online.
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