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Testing Express

Published 27 March 2008, 06:31 PM

Thanks to Pau for hurling a link to the new PhotoShop express online. Tried it out and found it to be an interesting combination of photo sharing and image editing with a flashy interface. It does have a button to 'turn photos into ahhhhtwork'. The back button is broken though.


The site notes that users that join get 2 gigabytes of storage for their images. There are then tools to explore the images, create online albums and edit the images. In the image editing modality the page offers 17 image editing options. The tools have hip little text pop-ups and when an option is selected the interface to the editing a purely viusal interafce consisting of a row of image thumbnails with varying degrees of pre-set options corresponding to the tool. The example shown above is for the 'Hue' tool and the original image has had various hue rotations applied to it. The purely visual user interface to the tools is smooth and pretty intuitive.

The 'back' button is broken though. 'Back' might someday map to 'undo' but at this point one can only speculate on the future for the back button. At least for flashy online tools.

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Well, one other issue is this tidbit, found when you set-up an account (required to upload your own image) and check the terms of service referenced by the Elements Terms of service:

8. Use of Your Content.

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.

http://www.photoshop.com/express/terms.html

# Friday, March 28, 2008 02:39 PM by timk
No, I hadn't seen item 8 of the terms of use. Also Pau dropped me a line: "Regarding the back button, I guess the functionality does not depend only on Adobe. There are some undo and history commands though at the bottom of the application -- at least in the signed-in version."
# Friday, March 28, 2008 04:07 PM by Nathan Moroney
Actually, Adobe claims its legal team is making it a priority to post revised terms that are more appropriate for Photoshop Express users. See {http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messageview.cfm?forumid=74&catid=684&threadid=1349048&enterthread=y} for their note.
# Friday, March 28, 2008 08:04 PM by Giordano Beretta
What I really need to know is wehere you got the picture of a AMC Pacer (or is it the Gremlin?) matchbox car. Classic!
# Friday, March 28, 2008 09:44 PM by dispoto
I think it's a Pacer and it's actually one of the sample images that is featured in the test drive so I can't take any credit for it. But classic indeed.
# Friday, March 28, 2008 10:04 PM by Nathan Moroney

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