Adobe Photoshop Express

App Review:	Adobe Photoshop Express
Price:	FREE
Developer:	Adobe
Reviewer:	brian
Brian’s Rating:	4.8
User Rating:	4.2

Pros / Cons

Pros:

Photoshop.com

Good, basic editing suite

Uploading options

Cons:

Thumbnail update notice every time you open the app

Online client doesn’t save login info for other photo hosting sites

Review

Adobe Photoshop Express (formerly, Photoshop.com Mobile) is a well-balanced and versatile app, providing just the right amount of functionality without trying to do too much and becoming unwieldy.  There are really two distinct components to be reviewed, first being the mobile app and second, the online Photoshop.com component.  So, here goes…

The App: The online app displays the photos held on your phone/memory card, as well as whatever photos you have uploaded to Photoshop.com (covered later).  Clicking on one of the photos opens it up, as one would expect, and the menu options allow for editing, deleting, uploading, viewing photos as a slideshow, and setting wallpapers (which goes a bit quicker than setting the wallpaper from within the stock gallery but does not allow for cropping).  There are some very cool effects built into the app, and I like that it allows you to just shoot pictures and worry about editing later on, unlike FxCamera (which I also like, for the most part), which requires the effects to be set prior to shooting.

The only gripe I have, and it’s a very minor one, is that it tells you every time you open the app that it’s updating the thumbnails and requires you to press OK.  I would assume that it is doing this…I don’t need the notification.  Editing photos is simple and intuitive, and I like that it saves the edited photo as a new photo altogether, keeping the original intact.  It gives you the option to upload photos to Facebook, Photoshop.com, and TwitPic.  Very cool.

The Online Client: I really dig the online counterpart to the Photoshop Express App.  It gives you good, basic editing options, similar to the app but beefed up a bit.  The coolest feature I think is the ability to pull in and edit photos from your other online photo hosting sites, such as Picasa, Flickr, Photobucket and Facebook.  It seems to require me to link/authorize these other accounts each time I login for some reason, but it’s a small price to pay for this functionality.

Summary

Overall, this is one of the better online client / app pairings I’ve seen in an Android offering.  It’s usable, intuitive, powerful and allows you to share your media how you want and where you want.  It makes me want to take pictures with my phone instead of reaching for my camera, and that’s pretty great.

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