Worse still, the upload is slow, with 65MB of sample files taking 40 minutes, and it doesn’t happen in background, so you’re left twiddling your thumbs for that time. Selecting files to upload is relatively easy, but you can’t select whole folders, let alone sub-folders. Again, that’s neither mean nor surprising in an online context where bandwidth is all-important and JPEG rules, but it immediately eliminates Photoshop Express for manipulating high-resolution camera RAW formats, which is normally Photoshop territory. Photoshop Express only handles JPEGs, and for editing they’re restricted to 2,880 x 2,880 pixels (around 8 megapixels).
So how does Photoshop Express shape up in this more realistic and sceptical light?īack to image uploading, and to further limitations and disappointments.
#ONLINE ADOBE PHOTOSHOP EXPRESS SOFTWARE#
In short, Adobe isn’t about to give away the family silver, and SaaS is probably best interpreted as Software as a Subscription. There’s currently no way to increase your allowance, but this will surely come – at a price (for example, Flickr charges $25 a year). Now 2,000 1MB JPEGs is hardly mean, but it’s a figure that’s been carefully chosen – it will take you a while to hit the ceiling but serious users inevitably will. The first step is to upload your photos, and immediately you hit Photoshop Express’ most significant limitation, a 2GB storage limit. A month or so later, I received an email from Adobe apologising and asking me to retry, and this time the mail arrived in a few seconds and I was away. Clearly Adobe’s infrastructure wasn’t up to the demand, the cardinal sin for web-application delivery and hardly the professional experience you expect from the “Photoshop” brand. My first impressions were less than positive when I tried to sign up a couple of days after launch but didn’t receive the necessary confirmation email.
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