Adobe Photoshop Express - Free Online Photoshop For Everyone

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Press Release

Adobe Launches Photoshop Express Public Beta

Free Online Software Brings Photoshop Technology to Anyone Taking Digital

Photos

SAN JOSE, Calif. ? March 27, 2008 ? Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE)

today announced Adobe?

Photoshop? Express public beta, a free Rich Internet Application (RIA)

available to anyone who wants to store, sort and show off digital photos with

eye-catching effects. During the public beta period, Adobe will solicit

Photoshop Express user feedback on product features and functionality, which

will continue to evolve over time. As the newest addition to the Photoshop

family line, Photoshop Express has taken much of Adobe's best image editing

technology and made it simple and accessible to a new online audience.

Photoshop Express allows users to store up to 2 gigabytes of images online for

free, make edits to their photos, and share them online in creative ways,

including downloading and uploading photos from popular social networking sites

like Facebook.

 

"Photoshop is trusted technology that has changed the visual landscape of our

world. Now, Photoshop Express allows anyone who snaps a digital photo to easily

achieve the high-impact results for which Adobe is known," said Doug Mack, vice

president of Consumer and Hosted Solutions at Adobe. "Photoshop Express is a

convenient, single destination where you can store, edit and share photos

whether you're at home, school or on the road."

 

Simple, Fun and Accessible

With Photoshop Express, digital photos can be uploaded and sorted anytime,

edited non-destructively to always preserve the original image, and shared from

anywhere, on any Web browser. In a few easy clicks, Photoshop Express empowers

anyone to make standard edits, such as removing blemishes and red-eye,

converting to black and white, cropping and resizing, and much more.

 

No experience is required to add special effects that will impress friends and

family. In keeping with its one-click

approach, Photoshop Express offers tricks like Pop Color which selects an

object in an image, mutes the background color of the photo and allows the user

to swap the object's color so it jumps off the page. Sketch effects help photos

look like drawings and the Distort feature allows you to distort facial

features or objects within the images for a comical or artistic effect. Even

users with limited photo editing knowledge can simply select what looks best

from a line-up of sample photos with visual hints showing different variations

of the added effect.

 

Photoshop Express offers a variety of creative sharing options, including

uploading and showing off photos and

slideshows in your own online "Gallery" hosted by Adobe, or conveniently

embedding or linking photos to social

networking sites and personal blogs without having to leave the application.

Slideshows never looked better with

animation that makes photos float and fly across the screen, allowing for

viewer interactivity and unique presentation styles.

 

Adobe Photoshop Family

Adobe Photoshop CS3 and Photoshop CS3 Extended are at the heart of the

Photoshop family, joined by solutions for users at every level who want to

bring out the best in their digital images. Photoshop Lightroom? addresses the

workflow needs of professional and serious amateur photographers. Photoshop

Elements provides exciting tools and sharing options for photo hobbyists.

 

Photoshop Express is the latest step Adobe is taking to leverage the advanced

technology that underpins its awardwinning creative products and deliver it to

new online communities. In early 2007, Adobe also announced the availability of

Adobe? Premiere? Express, an online video editing and mash-up tool on partner

sites such as MTV and Photobucket. Adobe Premiere Express leverages the

functionality found in Premiere Elements, a fully-featured desktop video

editing program.

 

Free and Available Now

Adobe Photoshop Express beta is available now for free via any Web browser at

http://www.photoshop.com/express. Photoshop Express was created with Flex,

Adobe's free, open source framework for building RIAs. Flex applications

provide a consistent, rich user experience across operating systems and all

major browsers, including Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari and others. An

Internet connection and an up-to-date Flash? Player 9 are all that are required

to experience Adobe Photoshop Express. In its early phases, Photoshop Express

is available to US residents-only in English.

 

Users may experience slow performance if accessed outside of the US. Future

plans include availability in other

languages and countries.

 

[peter_lawrence]

Until Adobe changes Adobe Photoshop Express' <i>Terms of Use</i> it would be wise for

anyone who plans to sell their images (especially stock photographers) to avoid using the

service and giving away, free of charge, the rights of their photographs to Adobe.<br>

<br>

Here's the offending paragraph of the Terms of Use agreement:<br>

<br>

<i>"Adobe does not claim ownership of Your Content. 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."</i><br>

<br>

Adobe is aware of the unhappiness of many photographers over these terms and has

publicly stated it's looking to rewrite them in the future.<br>

<br>

But until then, it might be wise to avoid this "free" service.<br>

<br>

[peter_hovmand]

Well, that is an extremely important warning, Peter! Thanks.

[peter_lawrence]

Good news. It appears that Adobe has fixed the problematic language of the Terms of

Use for Adobe Photoshop Express users.<br>

<br>

Here's a link to dpreview.com article about the positive changes in the terms of use:<br>

<a

href="http://www.dpreview.com/news/0804/08040701adoberights.asp">http://www.dpe

view.com/news/0804/08040701adoberights.asp</a><br>

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