Web 2.0 Photo Editing Comes of Age

We've written before about the trend toward web-based applications.  Now there is a viable photo editing app that runs in your browser.  It is from Adobe called (what else!) Photoshop Express.  Once you create a free Photoshop Express account, you can either directly upload your images for editing, or better yet, link to the photos stored in your (also free) Photobucket repository.  Because it is from Adobe, it is no surprise that this is a Flash-based application.  It even runs in the Firefox browser on the Linux-based Asus Eee mini-laptop once you upgrade to the latest version of the Flash plug-in for Firefox.  Given the limited storage space on the Eee, web-based applications are an ideal solution. 

Photoshop Express doesn't offer all of the editing features of the full (and expensive) version of Photoshop CS3, but it will do much of what its consumer-oriented traditional software cousin, Photoshop Elements, can do.