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jonknee
March 27th, 2008, 02:10 PM
For me I think the most useful case for PSEX (Yikes, I should probably come up with a better acronym) is posting pictures online. Currently I'll transfer the photos from my camera/phone, edit in CS3, post to my server, embed on whatever site. With Express I could do the upload and edit all in one step. That could be handy. Most of the time all I'm editing is resolution (I don't want to post a huge photo in a forum) and color balance, which I believe can jive with Express.

Anybody else have ideas?
TonyW
March 27th, 2008, 02:41 PM
I'm just about to leave on a trip to Europe and was thinking it will let me upload some pics, do a bit of basic editing and send them around. Beats taking a laptop as I can usually find a computer with a USB port for my mini card reader and an internet connection but not necessarily with photo editing software. I'll see how it works in the next couple of weeks.

Tony
vawitt
March 27th, 2008, 04:57 PM
Tony have a good trip! Snap some good ones!!

~Val in snowy (:mad:) IL
Michel B
March 27th, 2008, 05:05 PM
Tony,
You will be welcomed in Europe!
But...
Did you read this about Photoshop Express?
http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/photo-retouching/21292-photoshop-express.html
JonE
April 13th, 2008, 12:39 PM
The ridiculous terms of service give Adobe the right to use your postings including selling them, and it's perpetual. Apparently it's under review but no change as yet.

http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2008/03/a_note_about_ps.html
TonyW
April 13th, 2008, 06:21 PM
They are a bit over the top but in fact most on-line services have wording that isn't too different. When you upload to Flickr you give Yahoo the rights to the license to use, distribute, reproduce, modify, adapt, publicly perform and publicly display anywhere in the world. They have to say that because that's what you are doing when you post anything on the Internet.

Tony
JonE
April 13th, 2008, 09:19 PM
It doesn't have to give them rights to sell prints, mugs, t-shirts etc. with your photos on them. Otherwise, yes they need the right to display it and they can make revenue from running the site. But they shouldn't claim unconditional and absolute essentially ownership of your images.
NickLewis
April 16th, 2008, 04:57 AM
That's an appallingly badly drafted clause. I understand that they need various permissions to modify and distribute users' work in order to be able to offer the service at all, but they are claiming far more than they need.

And goodness knows what their opening caveat is attempting to achieve.

Shall we have a whip-round so they can afford more than $50 for the next lawyer who tries to draft their Ts & Cs? :)

I'm not using the service while that clause is extant.

Nick
TonyW
April 29th, 2008, 06:14 AM
Sounds like they got the message and the terms of service have been revised:

http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messageview.cfm?forumid=74&catid=684&threadid=1349048&enterthread=y

Tony
JulieM
April 29th, 2008, 06:39 AM
Thanks for mentioning that, Tony. I was wondering why we hadn't heard anything about updated terms. I think the lawyers must have really taxed their brains on that one because they actually put it in words their target audience can understand.. :D

HERE (https://www.photoshop.com/express/pxterms.html) is the link to the terms...
Beth McNabb
June 6th, 2008, 04:43 PM
I'm just about to leave on a trip to Europe and was thinking it will let me upload some pics, do a bit of basic editing and send them around. Beats taking a laptop as I can usually find a computer with a USB port for my mini card reader and an internet connection but not necessarily with photo editing software. I'll see how it works in the next couple of weeks.

Tony

I'm curious how this worked for you. Keep us posted!

Beth
TonyW
June 6th, 2008, 10:06 PM
Well - I did use it the way I had planned a couple of times but then I found an old copy of Elements on the computer I had access to and old habits die hard :). But at least I can confirm that it did work ;)

Tony
Beth McNabb
June 7th, 2008, 11:30 AM
Thanks Tony.
I would probably rather have Photoshop or Elements too, but to be able to upload some files rather than carrying a laptop or other storage device definately has its advantages. I'm assuming it uploads as srgb. I would prefer the full original gamut.

I was thinking of using it as a way to allow others access to pictures without having to burn disks for groups. I really want out to that business!

Hope you enjoyed your trip and captured some great shots!
Beth
TonyW
June 7th, 2008, 12:16 PM
Not sure what it does with profiles although as it's set up for displaying on the web I assume it uses sRGB so if you uploaded an AdobeRGB you might find the colours are drab (same as they would look if you upload an AbobeRGB image to the web without converting it to sRGB first). It doesn't give people access to your pictures (ie they can't dowload them), just lets them look at them which does have some advantages.

Tony
Beth McNabb
June 7th, 2008, 07:54 PM
I was looking at http://www.photoshopexpresstechniques.com/. (A link at the bottom of the ps express home page.) It's done by one of the NAPP guys. It sounds like Matt Klowski.

On video #24 he shows how to download the original file you uploaded. Can't beat that! It also showed how to put a link to a picture in your web page and email a picture. Sharing is good!

Thanks for all of your helpful posts.

Beth