Adobe launches Photoshop Express public beta
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Mar 27, 2008 at 9:52am
Adobe has announced Adobe Photoshop Express public beta, a free Rich Internet Application (RIA) available to anyone who wants to store, sort and show off digital photos. During the public beta period, Adobe will solicit Photoshop Express user feedback on product features and functionality.
As the newest addition to the Photoshop family line, Photoshop Express has taken much of Adobe’s image editing technology and made it simple and accessible to a new online audience, according to Doug Mack, vice president of Consumer and Hosted Solutions at Adobe. It allows users to store up to 2GB of images online for free, make edits to their photos, and share them online, including downloading and uploading photos from social networking sites like Facebook.
With Photoshop Express, digital photos can be uploaded and sorted anytime, edited non-destructively to always preserve the original image, and shared from anywhere, on any web browser. You can make standard edits, such as removing blemishes and red-eye, converting to black and white, cropping and resizing, and much more. You can also apply a variety of special effects.
Photoshop Express was created with Flex, Adobe’s free, open source framework for building RIAs. Flex applications work across operating systems and all major browsers, including Safari, Firefox, Internet Explorer and others. An Internet connection and an up-to-date Flash Player 9 are required to experience Adobe Photoshop Express. In its early phases, Photoshop Express is available to US residents-only in English. Users may experience slow performance if accessed outside of the US. Future plans include availability in other languages and countries.
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