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Adobe Photoshop Express Review, Part 2
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Adobe Photoshop Express shows much promise as an online editing, organizing, and publishing application, but it’s got a few hiccups. It’s still in beta, so that’s to be expected and the ones I have encountered so far won’t impede most users too much. The most annoying ones are in uploading and organizing.
Photoshop Express’ layout is clean; all of the controls are easy to find. I really hate searching around for what I want to do, so anytime a company makes my life easier, I really appreciate it. So, when I click on the “Upload” button in the upper left hand side of the page and it opens a familiar window, I know exactly what to do. You can highlight multiple images and upload them all at the same time (another welcome feature).
The uploader gives you a few options for immediately organizing your photos and you can upload them to the library, an existing album or a new album. Once you decide, this is where things can slow down. Over an Ethernet cable with a decent connection, it’s pretty quick for any size file. But as soon as you go wireless, it’s like trying to get to your next exit in bumper-to-bumper traffic: it feels like it takes forever, even though it really isn’t very far to go (one caveat, this could be the connections I’ve tried. However, I’ve tested it in several locations with similar results each time).
When you have your photos in your Photoshop Express library, organization is nice and clean. Star your photos to rate them, tag them, caption them, and put them in new albums. Each photo has its own options, from rotating to linking to emailing them. You can access editing here too, but I’ll go into this some other time.
A feature I really like is the ability to download your photos in full resolution. Makes transferring photos much easier. I recently published an album of family photos and my uncle in the UK was able to download the full resolution so that he can print them successfully. Much more convenient than trying to zip them and send them via email, instant messaging, or snail mail.
Publishing can be down on Adobe Photoshop Express’ own photo sharing site, with the ability to lock your albums down to just friends, or make them public for anyone to use. Furthermore, you can choose to allow printing and/or downloading, giving you more control over who can do what with your pictures.
You can also publish to Facebook, and also to popular photo sharing sites like Flickr, Photobucket and Picasa. While the latter three are rivals in the photo-sharing world, Adobe has had the foresight to realize people may not want to switch services. Personally, I like this a lot. With a single upload to Photoshop Express, I can publish to four different Web sites (and I’m sure more are coming). The convenience alone is worth using this tool if you do a lot of publishing.
When you do publish to the other sites, there is no more need to keep them on Photoshop Express unless you’re planning to use their sharing site. The images are transferred to the other services. The advantage to using Photoshop Express’ sharing service? Any edits you make with PE will show up in your shared albums as well. Not so with the photos you share out to the other services.
Facebook transfers were a little on the slow side, and if you haven’t put captions on your photos, a default caption advertising Photoshop Express shows up. A little annoying, but if you know about it ahead of time, you can caption all of your photos with clever sayings that describe the scene or humiliate your friends and family (or both!) before you send them out.
Next time, more of the organization side of things and then onto editing!
For more info: Visit www.photoshop.com/express
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