Adobe Photoshop Express

Adobe Photoshop Express
Developer(s) Adobe Systems
Operating system Cross-platform (web-based application)
Type Image editing web application
Website Adobe Photoshop Express

Adobe Photoshop Express is a Flash-based image editing web application from Adobe used to directly edit photos on blogs and social networking sites, so that users do not have to download or upload images. Similar to Picnik, the application currently works with sites such as Facebook, Flickr, Picasa and Photobucket. [1]

Currently in beta, features include a touchup tool, soft focus, black and white capabilities, layering of fixes and effects, storage space, sketch effect, albums, and 3D online galleries.[2]

In September 2011 the company also introduced Adobe Photoshop Express for Android [3] and iPhone. They allow editing pictures in the smartphone or tablet computer rather than online.

Terms of Use

In the early days of the beta test, the product's Terms of Use raised controversy, in that it claimed to retain an irrevocable license to use certain works submitted by end users in perpetuity.[4][5] At that time, Adobe held users of Photoshop Express to Adobe.com's general Terms of Use, which had not been drafted in contemplation of the sort of user-created content utilized in Photoshop Express.

Following user concerns and negative press, Adobe issued new, more specialized Terms of Use for the Photoshop Express product that superseded sections of the General Terms, and clarified many of these issues. Changes included making the license expressly revocable and indicating that Adobe's rights to use the content are solely for the operation of Photoshop Express itself.[6]

References

  1. ^ Hughes, Gina (2008-03-28). "Adobe launches web-based Photoshop service". Yahoo!. http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/hughes/25401. Retrieved 2008-03-30. 
  2. ^ My Top 10 Favorite Features of Photoshop Express Beta by Matt Kloskowski
  3. ^ Express for Android
  4. ^ "Terms of Use (as effective prior to April 10, 2008)". photoshop.com. https://www.photoshop.com/express/terms_old.html. Retrieved 2008-04-10. "Adobe does not claim ownership of Your Content. However, with respect to Your Content that you submit or make available for inclusion on publicly accessible areas of the Services, you grant Adobe a worldwide, royalty-free, nonexclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, and fully sublicensable license to use, distribute, derive revenue or other remuneration from, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, publicly perform and publicly display such Content (in whole or in part) and to incorporate such Content into other Materials or works in any format or medium now known or later developed." 
  5. ^ Morgenstern, David (2008-03-28). "Concerns raised over content ownership, terms with Adobe Photoshop Express service". zdnet.com. http://blogs.zdnet.com/Apple/?p=1477. Retrieved 2008-03-29. 
  6. ^ "Photoshop Express Terms of Use, Section 6". photoshop.com. https://www.photoshop.com/express/pxterms.html. Retrieved 2008-04-10. 

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