Adobe launched a free, Web-based version of their software this week. It’s called PhotoShop Express (Beta).
Now you can manipulate your images online for use on your website, blog, FaceBook profile, etc.
There’s even a “Share” feature that allows you to send photos to friends and family.
I just did a trial run. It’s very easy to use and quite similar to other photo sharing sites.
You can crop, fix red eye, adjust the saturation, white balance, hue and utilize many of the other popular PhotoShop functions.
Of course, this is nothing like having the full-blown version of PhotoShop installed on your computer, but it’s a very nice tool if you need to share or edit your photos on the fly.
And since the full version of PhotoShop would cost you about $650, this is a nice alternative.
Tip: When you’re ready to download edited photos to your PC, you have to go back to your “Library” and hover over the photo.
This will reveal a “Photo Options” tab at the bottom of your photo. Now you can choose to download it. I almost missed this, and I think they could have made this option a little more obvious.
Other than that, a pretty decent job by Adobe.
Check out PhotoShop Express here. (You may be prompted to download the latest version of Flash.)
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Thanks for the post, Lisa! This will be a good replacement while I try and get a fully copy.
Ditto, Max. I’d always wanted to try PhotoShop, but the price stopped me. Now I can play around with the free version until I can get ahold of the real thing.
There doesn’t seem to be a resize tool yet on this version. I use this alot to reduce my images in size. Hope they add one soon.
Also only available to the US at present. You can still use it if you say you are from US. Although they say you might experience slow speed.
that’s awesome,
thanks for sharing
The online version is ok but it’s not photoshop. If you want a photoshop like free alternative, try paint.net - very similar to photoshop and free.
http://www.paint.net
-Mike
I usually don?t post in Blogs but your blog forced me to, amazing work.. beautiful ?
There is obviously a lot to know about this. I think you made some good points in Features also.