We launched Photoshop Express tonight and the early reviews seem to be pretty positive with a couple of odd blemishes (the terms of service seems very odd). I’ve been playing around with it a bit tonight and I’m pretty impressed. I’ve seen it demoed a few times and really like the ability to roll over varying degrees of an effect to see exactly how your picture will look before you edit (pop color is sweeeeet). That’s all still there. We’ve also got some social networking integration so you can quickly edit Facebook, Photobucket, and Picasa (Flickr is coming soon I hear). All in all, it’s a great Flex/Flash RIA and it shows off one of Adobe’s strength’s – image editing. So while I’m a little bit bummed to be competing with great Flex applications like Picnik, I’m excited about how the space is shaping up.
This is also a really big move for Adobe. This is some of the logic behind our CS products (Photoshop) running inside a browser. We actually took some of the brains behind various Photoshop filters and used them to help rewrite some of that in AS3. It’s one of Adobe’s very first hosted services and while we don’t have the APIs yet, those will be coming soon as well. So you can store, edit, and manage your photos all using Adobe’s hardware and infrastructure. Soon you’ll be able to use our programming models (and others) to create rich experiences around that. And because we have both great tools and a great platform, you’ll see an offline/AIR version of Photoshop Express down the road which I think has the potential to show off what we think the next generation of software looks like – multiple ways to access your data stored in the cloud but accessible locally when you need it. And it’s all using the same programming model so we can reuse a lot of code. It’s an exciting time and I can’t wait to see the rest of Adobe’s properties explore the world of online hosted services on top of Adobe’s platform.
[tags]Adobe, Flex, Flash, Photoshop Express[/tags]
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