Digg This Story   Apr 04 08

/ by tony schibono

Adobe recently announced the release of Photoshop Express, a flash based version of Photoshop on the web.

The tool allows users to make quick adjustments to their photos, as well as share photos in an online gallery. A very slick and revolutionary tool overall, the launch of PS express represents an interesting time for both web applications as well as Flash as a web application platform.

I have to say, I was fairly impressed with the overall performance of the app, though not so impressed with some of its usability issues. For instance, my mouse wheel doesn't work with this app, as it uses a native flash based verses scrollbar for scrolling images. Its this type of issue that makes me question whether flash is an efficient platform for building web applications. Really, that scrollbar should react to my mouse-wheel, and I know there is a flash controller for this, the developers simply didn't code it in. If this were a standard non-flash web app, no extra code would be necessary, as the browser already has working scrollbars.

Other than the scrollbar issue and a few other usability hickups, its still a cool app worth checking out. I'm just not convinced I would store, share and edit my photos here just quite yet...

Check out Photoshop Express