Photoshop Express
Adobe's Photoshop Express is the lightweight online version of the image-editing leviathan that is Photoshop -- or rather some Photoshop-style menus on the grey background of Photoshop Elements.
Despite being much lighter than Photoshop, Express is still one of the more ponderous online editors, taking its time to switch between modes, upload photos and preview changes. This may be because we're using it in Australia, however: you'll have to say you live in the US to use the current beta version. It allows photo upload from Facebook, Photobucket and Picasa.
Editing
Exposure, white balance, saturation, sharpening and more can be adjusted. It will select the main colours for you to choose one to 'pop', while red-eye removal and a clone tool are also available.
Effects
Perhaps surprisingly, you don't get much in the way of filters and effects. The coolest trick available is a distort option, pictured above. Images are saved to your Photoshop online gallery, or downloaded at preset sizes to your computer.
Blog images
You can copy a snippet of HTML to the clipboard that will embed the image into a Web site, but without any way of altering the quality.
Verdict: 6/10
The Photoshop brand will make this popular, and the photo retouching options are certainly powerful, but it's still rather laborious.
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