Today I took the freshly released Adobe Photoshop Express for a test drive, the online version of Photoshop (sort of). The reason that I say sort of is that there is no painting and drawing, this is strictly a photo editor application.

Photoshop Express looks much like Buzzword, the previous Adobe online product. I quite like the way things turned out if you can stop yourself from trying to find all the features of its desktop counterpart. After the considerable loading time (I have a fast connection) everything went smoothly, so it was well worth the wait.

When you have loaded a picture you can perform the tasks on it via the right sidebar which contains all the actions. You will find most of the basic tools you need for touching up your photos a bit like crop, rotate, red eye, white balance, sharpen and so on, and six effects to use for fun.

All these are executed very well, one of the best features I think, is the way it displays changes. If you click saturation for example you will see a series of thumbnails at the top, with your original in the center. To the left is the least saturated thumbnail and to the right is the most. This makes choosing quick and easy for those people who aren’t huge photography nuts, but like to improve their pics a bit.

You can also maintain a gallery on site, you get an impressive 2GB, which should be enough for a whole lot of pics. It was about time Adobe came up with something like this, it’s been more than a year since online editors came to be. I am a but disappointed that this is only a photo editing application, although for that use it’s quite good, perhaps some more features would be nice.