Our man in Tokyo

In a move which is going to Terms of Use Agreement carries with it Adobe's right to, "worldwide, royalty-free, nonexclusive, perpetual, irrevocable" use of the images. My guess is that as with most license agreements the lawyers have been somewhat overzealous and that these terms will be relaxed in the near future.

On the plus side, the tools on offer (crop and rotate, red-eye removal, sharpen, white balance, etc.) are things that I do in Lightroom everyday. Again, Adobe's interest in simplifying the language for non-professionals is apparent in describing the clone/heal tool as 'touchup' and color saturation as 'pop color'. There's no doubt which part of the market Photoshop Express is aimed at.

At the time of writing, Adobe's servers were having a hard time keeping up with the number of user registrations. I abandoned my initial attempts to sign up for an account as the promised 'user identification email' was taking too long to arrive.

Overall, Photoshop Express shows potential, but for anyone looking to do more than simply edit picures and upload them to Facebook or Myspace, the limited functionality is going to prove frustrating. The gallery is promising, but is severely hamstrung by the limited free disk space and unwieldy interface. For now, Flickr is sure to remain the photo-sharing site of choice for the vast majority of users.

Oh, and while we're on the subject of Photoshop, check out the very funny PhotoShopped blog. Here you'll find examples of what happens when Photoshop is applied a little too liberally.