My first impression of Photoshop Express would be a ‘mini’ version of the desktop image editing favorite – that is online. Having used Photoshop since its earlier versions, it is fair to expect some of the standard items such as layers, tools, actions comps in this newest member of the Photoshop family. Wikipedia defines Photoshop as: “a graphics editor developed and published by Adobe Systems…market leader for commercial bitmap and image manipulation…”
But what I got was a complete different thing. Instead, PE is nothing like Photoshop desktop version. It is a futile attempt by Adobe to enter online photo album sharing and collaboration in which established Flickr, Picnik, Picasa and more already dominate.
This article will focus on image editing aspect of PE – what Photoshop IS all about:
User Interface is self-explanatory and simple. Once your account is set up, uploading images and/or migrating from other websites is a jiff.

Once an image is uploaded – under Photo Options > Edit Photo. We enter – image editing mode. (more…)