Adobe Photoshop Express

Photoshop Express Beta, Adobe’s free, web-based editor won us over with its 2GB free storage and clean, ad-free interface. Now, it’s more sharing-friendly, too. Today, Adobe announced a partnership with Flickr (Photobucket, Google Picasa, and Facebook were on board from the beginning). We expect the integration to be just as smooth as the others’, and, as always, we love that you can be logged into any and all of these sites simultaneously (in the case of Picnik, only Premium subscribers can do this).

Adobe also announced an embeddable player, allowing users to post slide shows on blogs and social networking sites, as they would a viral YouTube clip. There’s also now a “save as” function, so users can save as many editions of a photo as they like (now, if only Adobe would add as many fun filters as Picnik!). Other sharing features, available since launch, include the ability to save edited photos back to photo sharing sites, and to browse more than 30,000 public galleries, as you can on Flickr.

The online photo editing space is getting as crowded as an Irish pub on a Thursday night at happy hour. Joining Web sites like Picnik and Snipshot, Adobe today launched Photoshop Express (www.photoshop.com/express).

The makers of the advanced photo-editing program, Photoshop, are taking their expertise and bringing it to the novice photo editor with a new browser-based service. What will Adobe’s new (and free!) online photo-editing service bring to the table that others like it haven’t? If you ask Adobe, they’ll tell you: ease of use and simple photo tweaks.

We’ve spent the last few days playing around with the service and couldn’t help but compare it directly with Picnik, a leader in the online photo-editing space.

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