Photoshop Express for iPad Quick Review: Avoid for Now [IPad Apps]

Like the iPhone version, the brand new Photoshop Express for iPad is a basic image editing program which could publish your photos to your own Adobe-based online gallery or through Facebook. It’s nice and fast. Unfortunately, it has problems.

Photoshop Express has two main functions: Editing your photos and publish them within the web. The first part is fast. It supports geometry functions (crop, straighten, rotate, flip), image correction (exposure, saturation, tint, B&W and contrast), focus functions (sharpening, sketch, softening) and special effects (borders and image filters). A lot of these are fast and straightforward to exploit, all touch based. Within seconds, you may have a retouched image, able to be uploaded in your own Adobe gallery or Facebook… while you’re lucky enough not to crash it first, that’s.

During the hour I’ve been fidgeting with it, the appliance has crashed a variety of times. There were also other bugs, like looking to load an image from the Photo library and failing, or uploading photos to limbo (it said the photos were uploaded to my Adobe Photoshop account, but they’re nowhere to be found in my gallery).

This is just too bad, because Photoshop Express is a) free and b) an extremely nice little app, simple enough to exploit to quickly modify an image and share it. I cannot use it in this state, but hopefully Adobe will fix these problems quickly.

However, twiddling with it I got a longing for something very simple, which I am hoping Adobe can make (and that allows you to be extremely useful for me and other desktop Photoshop users): Release an application to convert the iPad into a Photoshop control surface. i’ll love to display this application while I’m working on the image and quickly use it to apply filters and transforms. Or just access some of the Photoshop tool palettes, adopted to touchscreen use.

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