Adobe Photoshop Express Launches

The launch of Adobe Photoshop Express has been much anticipated. We are seeing the move of a large software company going from desktop to Web for a major application.

As Erick Schonfeld points out “Photoshop Express is by no means just Photoshop ported onto the web.”

I am a big fan of Picnik and for awhile was using it quite regularly, so I wanted to see how they compared.

It seems like Photoshop Express is pretty limited and seems very much focused on taking images, putting them online, and doing little touch-ups. One of the things that I am always doing is taking a picture and adding text and shapes to it, and this isn’t available, so I kinda don’t know when I would use this other than for simple cropping and resizing.

The interface is sleek and Flash-y but somehow doesn’t feel as nice as Picnik to me…. I don’t know why.

View Source has some fun though:

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What do you think?

(Via Ajaxian.)