Best use of Express?

[jonknee]

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]

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]

Tony have a good trip! Snap some good ones!!

~Val in snowy () IL

[Michel B]

Tony,
You will be welcomed in Europe!
But...
Did you read this about Photoshop Express?
http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/pho...p-express.html

[JonE]

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..._about_ps.html

[TonyW]

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]

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]

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]

Sounds like they got the message and the terms of service have been revised:

http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforu...&enterthread=y

Tony

[JulieM]

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..

HERE is the link to the terms...