Adobe Photoshop Express Launched

Photoshop Express is a limited version of Photoshop ported onto the web. It is intended for mainstream consumers, not professionals. The new app provides with 17 editing features which are all filters intended for tuning and effects. There are no tools for drawing lines, adding text, or creating shapes. Yet, users can easily take out red eye, touch up undesirable areas, change saturation, pop color, and crop.

 

Still, one of the most innovative features in Photoshop Express is the ability to revert any filter a user applies to a photograph. This can be done to a particular filter regardless of whether had been made other changes to the photo since applying it. All the user has to do is uncheck the particular filter and it will be subtracted from the changes made, which are represented in a historical filmstrip with all versions of the photo. This undo functionality for particular changes partly makes up for the unfortunate absence of layers, which are so vitally important in the desktop version of Photoshop.

Photoshop Express also differs from the desktop version by serving as an online storage and photo sharing service. There are up to 2GB of photos to upload to the web app (or pull them in directly from Facebook, Photobucket, or Picassa). They are arranged in a collection that can be made available to others or kept private. Embedding and slideshow functionality is also available.