Adobe Launches Photoshop Express Public Beta
Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today 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 with eye-catching effects. During the public
beta period, Adobe will solicit Photoshop Express user feedback on
product features and functionality, which will continue to evolve over
time. As the newest addition to the Photoshop family line, Photoshop
Express has taken much of Adobe’s best image
editing technology and made it simple and accessible to a new online
audience. Photoshop Express allows users to store up to 2 gigabytes of
images online for free, make edits to their photos, and share them
online in creative ways, including downloading and uploading photos from
popular social networking sites like Facebook.
"Photoshop is trusted technology that has
changed the visual landscape of our world. Now, Photoshop Express allows
anyone who snaps a digital photo to easily achieve the high-impact
results for which Adobe is known,” said Doug
Mack, vice president of Consumer and Hosted Solutions at Adobe. "Photoshop
Express is a convenient, single destination where you can store, edit
and share photos whether you’re at home,
school or on the road.” Simple, Fun and Accessible
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. In a few easy clicks,
Photoshop Express empowers anyone to make standard edits, such as
removing blemishes and red-eye, converting to black and white, cropping
and resizing, and much more.
No experience is required to add special effects that will impress
friends and family. In keeping with its one-click approach, Photoshop
Express offers tricks like Pop Color which selects an object in an
image, mutes the background color of the photo and allows the user to
swap the object’s color so it jumps off the
page. Sketch effects help photos look like drawings and the Distort
feature allows you to distort facial features or objects within the
images for a comical or artistic effect. Even users with limited photo
editing knowledge can simply select what looks best from a line-up of
sample photos with visual hints showing different variations of the
added effect.
Photoshop Express offers a variety of creative sharing options,
including uploading and showing off photos and slideshows in your own
online "Gallery”
hosted by Adobe, or conveniently embedding or linking photos to social
networking sites and personal blogs without having to leave the
application. Slideshows never looked better with animation that makes
photos float and fly across the screen, allowing for viewer
interactivity and unique presentation styles.
Adobe Photoshop Family
Adobe Photoshop CS3 and Photoshop CS3 Extended are at the heart of the
Photoshop family, joined by solutions for users at every level who want
to bring out the best in their digital images. Photoshop Lightroom™
addresses the workflow needs of professional and serious amateur
photographers. Photoshop Elements provides exciting tools and sharing
options for photo hobbyists.
Photoshop Express is the latest step Adobe is taking to leverage the
advanced technology that underpins its award-winning creative products
and deliver it to new online communities. In early 2007, Adobe also
announced the availability of Adobe® Premiere®
Express, an online video editing and mash-up tool on partner sites such
as MTV and Photobucket. Adobe Premiere Express leverages the
functionality found in Premiere Elements, a fully-featured desktop video
editing program.
Free and Available Now
Adobe Photoshop Express beta is available now for free via any Web
browser at http://www.photoshop.com/express.
Photoshop Express was created with Flex, Adobe’s
free, open source framework for building RIAs. Flex applications provide
a consistent, rich user experience across operating systems and all
major browsers, including Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari and others.
An Internet connection and an up-to-date Flash®
Player 9 are all that 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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