Mar 27 2008Photoshop Express Available Online For Free

Photoshop Express, the long anticipated free photo manipulation tool is now online and accepting members. You ever get a complementary 2GB of storage when you sign up. Someone go ahead and join and give us some feedback in the comments section about what all you can do with it. I'd do it, but I can't compromise the security of my private photos. Because they're private. Read: of privates. Mine.
Thanks to Anthony, who takes pictures like nobody's business, for the tip
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Reader Comments
1. Bushbrother - March 27, 2008 1:24 PM
Looks good at first glance ... perfect for touching up red eye on photos :)
2. gueast - March 27, 2008 1:56 PM
What the hell is the personal sharing URL?
3. JVL - March 27, 2008 2:21 PM
I signed up, but I use Photoshop pretty regularly and you don't get to do some more advanced (but handy) things like masking or anything to do with Layers. Sharpening, Hue, Saturation, and other do-dads are okay too - but I don't see a big difference between this and Picnik.com which I've been using for a while when I'm travelling.
Aside from the 2GB at the 'yourname'.photoshop.com it's nothing groundbreaking. Maybe, like Picnik, they'll release some "pro" stuff for a fee later on.
4. guate6 - March 27, 2008 2:22 PM
So far so good. http://guate6.photoshop.com
I've used several excellent programs (mostly Adobe: photoshop, bridge, lightroom, imageready, then Nikon Capture NX, Picture Project, Paint, and even Power Point to edit some pictures) and this one is not that, but it gets basic stuff done. This is not for professionals to edit, but it can be used to share pictures with others in one's own gallery. The flash-based interface is neat though.
5. guate6 - March 27, 2008 3:08 PM
All my pictures are copyrighted.
I don't know if it's the first link I'm supposed to share, or this second link:
https://www.photoshop.com/user/guate6
Let me know please.
6. Onjuju - March 27, 2008 4:00 PM
Pretty awesome site. Useful when im away from my comp with photoshop. Kinda slow.
Reminds me of Fliker, but better.
7. guate6 - March 27, 2008 4:06 PM
Ah, I think this is the direct link: https://guate6.photoshop.com/?galleryid=bbe9308fa0384dc39a4f3d556765d6c6&trackingid=BTAGC&wf=share
8. jetsamantagonist - March 27, 2008 4:50 PM
the second link you posted (https://www.photoshop.com/user/guate6) took me to your page... and might i add, beautiful shots mate!
9. guate6 - March 27, 2008 5:41 PM
#8: Alright, thanks for the link. And thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed the pictures.
10. guate6 - March 27, 2008 5:55 PM
After going through the gallery a few times, I must say that it's off. Like it doesn't properly load the image, and then speeds up to catch up with itself and ends up flying through a couple of pictures. I'm glad it's beta, hopefully it'll be fixed in the final release. I guess just look at the individual pictures in the gallery, instead having it scroll automatically.
Otherwise, I've not found much else that's a bother.
link: https://www.photoshop.com/user/guate6
11. the dude - March 27, 2008 6:14 PM
well too bad that adobe has unlimited rights over your pictures as soon as you upload them
12. Sparky112 - March 28, 2008 10:28 AM
@ the dude
Is that true? Does it say that on their site anywhere?
13. the dude - March 28, 2008 11:07 AM
@sparky
yeah, read through their user terms and there click on the terms link which brings you to another site. section 8 i believe says that you will own the rights to the pictures but adobe is allowed to distribute, publish, sell, edit, and anything else that a human can possibly do to your pictures. Worldwide... cool service, eh?
14. Sparky112 - March 28, 2008 12:16 PM
Huh, that's weird. I wonder how they can do that if the user technically owns the rights. Does that mean if they make any money from it, they owe that money to you? Probably not. You probably "agree" to let them use your copyrighted image as soon as you upload it. B*stards!
15. guate6 - March 28, 2008 12:58 PM
#11 is right:
"8. Use of Your Content.
1. Adobe does not claim ownership of Your Content. However, with respect to Your Content that you submit or make available for inclusion on publicly accessible areas of the Services, you grant Adobe a worldwide, royalty-free, nonexclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, and fully sublicensable license to use, distribute, derive revenue or other remuneration from, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, publicly perform and publicly display such Content (in whole or in part) and to incorporate such Content into other Materials or works in any format or medium now known or later developed."
Man, that sucks.
16. Sparky112 - March 28, 2008 2:01 PM
@guate6; and the dude
HOLY COW ... that *really* sucks. Is there any section of the site which is not "publicly accessible" that you could keep photos where they couldn't use them? It would be really ironic if this whole thing is just a way for them to steal people's photos and use them for free.
Wow, I will never recommend this service to anyone who values their photos.
17. Sparky112 - March 28, 2008 2:07 PM
Sorry to double-post.
Snapfish's license agreement is similar, but it sounds like they're only allowed to use it in furtherance of their service ("solely for the purpose of providing the Service"), and it doesn't include the statement "derive revenue or other remuneration from" like Adobe's does:
"as a condition to your Membership, you hereby grant Snapfish a perpetual, universal, non-exclusive, royalty-free right to copy, display, modify, transmit, make derivative works of, and distribute your Content, solely for the purpose of providing the Service. As a condition to Membership, you represent and warrant to Snapfish that you either own your Content or have written permission from the copyright owner to make such Content available to the Service."
18. Andrew Kinnear - March 28, 2008 11:05 PM
Who cares? Pros already use the full version, and amateurs don't care about their photos... http://blog.andrewkinnear.com/2008/03/photoshop-express-launches-does-anyone.html
19. Hermas - March 29, 2008 12:53 PM
I am not a Geek and just like him I wonder?
2. gueast - March 27, 2008 1:56 PM
What the hell is the personal sharing URL?
Can I use photobucket? That's where I store my pictures.
Or is it something completely different?
If so, What do I have to do?
Thanks for your help.
Hermas
20. Sparky112 - March 30, 2008 2:05 PM
CNET just posted a review of Photoshop Express and they took issue with the license agreement as well:
http://reviews.cnet.com/image-editing/adobe-photoshop-express/4505-3634_7-32909836.html?tag=bubbl_3
21. saiaik - July 14, 2009 8:22 AM
i want to make your friend and also want to make membership