Flex RIA Photoshop Express launched today
Adobe Photoshop Express is now in public beta. Photoshop Express is a free Rich Internet Application (RIA) built with Flex that allows you to store, sort and show off digital photos with eye-catching effects. It’s a perfect example of how powerful Flex and ActionScript have become.
As with every public beta period, Adobe is looking for your feedback on product features and functionality, which will continue to evolve over time. I have already added one feature request. There’s currently no support for Flickr. I know Flickr already uses Picnik but it would be great to have as much options as possible in Photoshop Express. (Update: Ryan Stewart heard that Flickr support is coming soon) Then again, I’m wondering if I could just switch to Photoshop Express as my main online photo app… It 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.
Update: John Nack is saying that an AIR-version is coming soon which will enable offline image editing and printing services.
From the press-release:
Doug Mack, vice president of Consumer and Hosted Solutions at Adobe:
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. 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.
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