Adobe Photoshop Express looks nice
Adobe recently launched an online version of Photoshop called Photoshop Express. It is an online Photo Sharing and Editing service. You can upload photos, create albums, share albums for others to view.
Editing Capabilities
You can perform a variety of edits on your images as can be seen in the screen shot here.
From basic manipulations such as cropping and rotating, to some neat effects such as Pop Color. What is very interesting with all the edits is that after you save your changes, Photoshop Express doesn’t actually change the original image, rather it applies the effects every time the photo is rendered.
This way, you can go back to your original whenever you want (even if that is a few weeks later).
The overall UI is pretty responsive. As expected, it is built in Flash, and takes only a little while to load initially. Once it is loaded, you really can’t help but smile at how smoothly the whole User Interface works. Whenever you select an effect to apply to your image from the ones available, you get about 6 presets of the effect, which you can view in your actual image by hovering your mouse over each of the presets (see below).
While these presets are spaced at various intervals, you can actually drag this small scroll tab below the presets to get an effect which is somewhere in between two consecutive presets.
Interestingly, when you register for this service, you get a message which says only users from the United States can register, which is enforced by the fact that you can only choose United States in the country drop down list. However, there is no enforcing of this restriction because I was able to choose United States and register from India.
Anyway, this looks like a nice and crisp offering so far and I might actually use it (unless they restrict access from India).