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"I've tried out nearly all online photo editors, and although some were good, I wasn't perfectly satisfied with any of them. Adobe's online, lightweight version of Photoshop, dubbed Adobe Photoshop Express, unfortunately falls under the same category, although it's one of the sleekest such applications out there. \nFirst thing you need to know about it is that it's not Photoshop. It's not even a lightweight version, meaning that it looks and feels the same as Photoshop, only with less options. It's a completely different application with some of Photoshop's features added into the mix. This is unfortunate, at least for me; I think that anyone who's really skilled with Photoshop knows all those little subtleties that Photoshop has which make it, by far, the best photo editing application out there. I'm talking about holding shift while you crop to get a perfect rectangle, or being able to move the axis of rotation somewhere outside of the image. \n\n\nAnd I'm not being unrealistic here; I didn't expect dozens of filters, or layers and paths. Hell, even the ability to draw shapes - which is also missing - is not something I consider crucial for such an app. But I did expect certain traits of Photoshop which are absolutely crucial for me. The most obvious one is crop &amp; resize. Photoshop gives you the ability to set crop area to a fixed amount of pixels, and it will automatically resize the selected area to fit this size. This is extremely important if you work on the web, where most of the time you constantly need to crop images into a same, fixed format (for example, the width of images on Mashable is usually 450 pixels.) I haven't seen this function done properly in any online photo editor, and Photoshop is no different. \nTo cut the long story short, if Photoshop is your bread and butter, don't expect to be using the Express even for the simplest of tasks. \nOn the other hand, I must admit that Photoshop Express' GUI is really good looking (albeit a little slow on occasion), and that it offers quite a lot of options: auto retouching, cropping, rotating, red eye removal, white balancing, and sharpening (very important), among others. There's also a couple of effects available: you can distort the image, apply hue and saturation filters, and there are even some artistic filters like sketch. On top of all that, Express doubles as a photo organizer, with a solid photo gallery (you get 2 GBs of storage with your free account), and the ability to connect with social sites such as Facebook, Photobucket or Picasa. \n\n\nFinal verdict: if you're already used to some online photo editor like Picnik, switching to Express is not a must as it doesn't offer much more. If you scoff at the sheer idea of online photo editors, Photoshop Express will not convert you. But if you're considering a new online photo editor, Photoshop Express is probably one of the best choices out there."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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