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Hands-On With Adobe's New Free, Web-Based Photoshop Express

by Thomas Houston, posted Mar 27th 2008 at 5:05PM



Today, Adobe launched a beta version of Photoshop Express. Aimed at anyone who wants to do quick edits of pictures, this new flash-based version of Photoshop is totally free and runs right in your Web browser -- perfect for anyone who doesn't want to clog up their computer with a full program installation or drop hundreds of dollars on the regular version of Photoshop. The service also allows you to manage and share photo galleries with friends and family with at very own yourname.photoshop.com.

Photoshop Express gives you 2 gigabytes of online storage, and allows you to connect, edit and share your photos directly with Picasa, Photobucket and Facebook. We gave it a quick spin today and are impressed with the program's slick, clean, and easy-to-use interface, but this is definitely not a Photoshop replacement. While you can clean up your pictures and easily share them with friends, you won't be able to "photoshop" images like this.

That said, Express lets you make a range of basic photo edits -- red-eye correction, exposure changes, cropping and more -- that will be more than enough for most non-professional photographers. Also, we were impressed with the app's speed, especially considering the Web-based nature of the site. Ready to try it out? Sign up here.

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YoWgo: Simple Cell Phone Wallpaper Search

by Terrence O'Brien, posted May 23rd 2007 at 4:34PM

As we recently reported, sales and downloads of wallpaper images are on the decline due to the proliferation of people using camera phone photos to decorate their cell phone screens. Now, a new service called YoWgo is hoping to carve into those sales even further.

Here's how it works: Lets say you want a photo of a cute little kitten for your cell phone screen and there are no cute little kittens around to photograph. Head over to yowgo.prodege.org and select the image tab at top. Type in "kitten," hit search and wait for your huge pile of kitty pictures to appear. Select the one you want and click the "Send to Phone" link, which uses Mixxer to deliver the image to your phone (Mixxer is a site that that let's users create custom content for their phones for free). All of this comes at no cost to you, except perhaps a teeny SMS charge from your provider.

We're big fans of YoWgo, and we definitely hope services such as Flickr and Picasa incorporate similar functionality in the future.

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