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Old 03-27-2008, 11:42 AM
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Default New Photoshop Express Beta is great! and free!

Info below taken from: Worth 1,000 words: Photoshop Express now free and online
By Chris Foresman | Published: March 27, 2008 - 08:22AM CT

Early this morning Adobe launched a public beta of Photoshop Express, the newest member of the Photoshop "family." The program, a sort of cross between iPhoto and Adobe Bridge CS3, is very slick and easy to use. Once you log in, you can view your images in a variety of customizable views. Images can be uploaded from your computer or sucked in from other services, like your Facebook account for instance. Images can be sorted and arranged into albums, and tagged for easy searching. Images can be edited with a variety of easy-to-use yet powerful tools (more on this later). Images can then be shared in a variety of ways: private emailed links for friends and family, slick, Flash-based slideshows on your public-facing Gallery, or pumped back out to your Photobucket account or other service.
Images can be pulled in from Facebook galleries, and edits saved back to Facebook.

The piece de resistance, however, is the image editing. While the UI is simple enough even a caveman could do it, the results are worthy of the Photoshop family heritage. Brightness, contrast, color temperature, and color balance are all point-and-click easy, using a Variations-like UI. Click on an effect, click on the best option, and you are done. No sliders or numeric options. A variety of fun effects, like Sketch, Pop Color, Distort, are reminiscent of of Apple's Photo Booth. Red-eye and touch-up tools are also point-and-click, but the results are high quality. In less than a minute, a so-so image can be proudly shown off in your Gallery.
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In addition, all edits are non-destructive and non-linear, like Lightroom. The edits are built up in a sort of stack. If you're not happy with one of the particular edits, you can pull it out of the stack without losing all the other edits. Many long-time Photoshoppers use layers, masks, and layer effects to achieve similar results, but Express makes it automatic and brain-dead simple to use.
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