{"id":541,"date":"2008-03-27T07:28:28","date_gmt":"2008-03-27T14:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/realphotography.com\/blog\/photoshop-fridayon-a-thursday\/"},"modified":"2008-03-27T07:28:28","modified_gmt":"2008-03-27T14:28:28","slug":"photoshop-fridayon-a-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/photoshop-fridayon-a-thursday\/","title":{"rendered":"Photoshop Friday&#8230;on a Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Adobe launched their &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.photoshop.com\/express\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Photoshop Express<\/a>&#8220;&#8211;a free web-based photo editing program, and I thought it warranted a little Photoshop Friday even though it&#8217;s a day early.  ;)<\/p>\n<p>If you already own photoshop, the editing portion is nothing to intrigue you, but it does offer 2 gigs of free storage and a flash slideshow, so you can share photos with family and friends online without  resizing for email.  That part is neat (though I would never be wooed away from my precious smugmug).<\/p>\n<p>At first glance, it seems to me like a beefed up version of flickr&#8230;and hopefully Adobe will do a better job protecting people from the weirdos than flickr has.<\/p>\n<p>You can&#8217;t edit RAW files in it, but if you don&#8217;t have Photoshop or Elements or Lightroom, it would be very useful to have a free online area to edit your photos (adjust white balance or exposure, crop, resize, do some basic cloning\/healing, add fill light, easy color pop and auto correct, etc)<\/p>\n<p>There are a ton of people checking it out right now, so it&#8217;s running a little slowly (or at least I hope that&#8217;s the reason), but I wanted to be sure to sign in today and snap up a good username before the good ones were gone and I ended up having to add three silent &#8220;g&#8221;s to my name.\u00a0 (I feel a burning need to register for every new networking site even if I don&#8217;t have immediate plans to use it, because should I ever want to jump on the bandwagon, I want a good username.)<\/p>\n<p>Scott Kelby has some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.photoshopexpresstechniques.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">training videos for Photoshop Express<\/a> that will guide you through the process if you need a little assistance learning the ropes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adobe launched their &#8220;Photoshop Express&#8220;&#8211;a free web-based photo editing program, and I thought it warranted a little Photoshop Friday even though it&#8217;s a day early. ;) If you already own photoshop, the editing portion is nothing to intrigue you, but it does offer 2 gigs of free storage and a flash slideshow, so you can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[99,142,122,143,96,144,145],"class_list":["post-541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photoshop-tips","tag-adobe","tag-online","tag-photo","tag-photography-resource","tag-photoshop","tag-photoshop-express","tag-sharing-photos"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}