Internet development and its dominant role among all other media, electronic and printed, continuously bring new innovations in field of expression and communication among Web users. One of basic features of today’s Internet is wider and bigger usage of Web 2.0 technology also known as User Friendly technologies. Fundamental characteristic of these technologies is possibility of achieving communication in simple and easy way for regular users. The best examples of usage of those technologies are Blogs and Photo Galleries.
Adobe, as giant software manufacturer, launched remarkable Web application which we can also freely call “On-Line” Photoshop because of numerous offered options. Photoshop Express can be found on web address www.photoshop.com/express/landing.html . First step is on-line registration after which you’ll get access to this on-line gallery. We must mention that this application is at the moment in beta but despite that it will completely fulfill even the finest needs that you might have. After authorization will open panel for choosing one of three offered options: My photo, My Gallery and Browse.
My Photo is used for forwarding photos and creating photo albums. Upload process of your pictures is very simple and can be done in just few steps and after that all desired photos will be transferred to your panel. After that step, you can create as many albums as you want. Process of filling photo albums with pictures is simple and can be realized just with dragging wanted image from work area into chosen album. Organization of work area is adaptable using area in upper left corner by choosing one of three icons (single image, grid of photos or table of sortable informations). Beside this option in upper left corner you also have option Full Screen Mode that provides full screen mode. Options for photo processing that Photoshop Express offers can be available by double click on picture and after that it will be edited in new panel that provides many options for photo editing. On the left side of work area, where the picture is placed, are located all tools in three basic groups: Basic, Tuning and Effects.
In Basics category are options:
• Crop&Rotate - for custom picture crop or by choosing some of offered aspects (1:1, 2:3, 4:5, 4:6 …) and rotating (with slider)
• Auto Correct - automatic correction of color tonality on picture
• Exposure - option for correction of photo illumination
• Red-Eye Removal - removing effect of “red eyes”
• Touchup - very interesting tool for achieving effect of cloning of some part of photo
• Saturation - adjusting of picture saturation.
In Tuning category are tools like:
• White Balance - choosing one of offered options for correction of picture exposure with different predefined conditions like: sunny day, cloudy, foggy weather…,
• Highlight - effect for accenting some parts of picture,
• Fill Light - tool for attaining effect of additional lighting,
• Sharpen - adjusting of picture sharpness
• Soft Focus.
Effects category contents tools:
• Pop Color - option for adding intensity of chosen color in certain amount,
• Hue - for changing coloring on picture,
• Black&White - for canceling all colors except black and white or in other words this tools serves for transferring all colors in one of mentioned – making black&white photo from color photo,
• Tint - tool for achieving overall tonality of photo
• Sketch - sketch effect
• Distort - distortion and bending of picture.
Second option in basic panel is My Gallery. All photo albums stored in your account can be seen in this panel and they can also be published. Browse is third option in basic panel and it serves for viewing all photo albums available through web application. Viewing is enabled with simple click and you’ll get photo slide show. Adjusting options for slide show are available through icon in upper right corner while on left side of panel will be opened extra menu for choosing photos reviewing modes (single, strip, grid and all that in 2D or 3D surroundings).
