Adobe Photo Express on Beta

First time I heard of the new web-based Adobe Photo Express, I couldn’t quite figure if it were really a photo gallery trying to compete with Flickr or just an trimmed down Photoshop version for the web. Looks like it’s both.

I don’t have a Flickr account so I can’t seriously compare it with that but I’ve tried a couple of web photo editors for a while now (Snipshot). Adobe Photo Express isn’t a PhotoShop — it shouldn’t be since all we need for a web-based photo editor are the basic editing functions, corrective features/filters and some funky effects.

I’m missing some key functionalities though:

• Support uploads of more formats other than JPEG.
• Ability to convert/export file formats – GIF, JPG, TIFF, BMP, PNG, etc.
• Ability to optimize picture quality vs. file size.
• Copy screen shot from my desktop.
• Support for RAW camera format.

Over-all, it’s an impressive start and hopefully, they’ll add some more features in it soon. All they need to do is ask people around what they want in an online photo editor.