Looking for a new way to share and edit your digital photographs online? Check out Adobe’s new Photoshop.com and see how easily it integrates with Photoshop Elements 7.
Overview of Photoshop.com
There’s definitely no shortage of places on the Internet where you can upload and share your digital photographs with friends and family or the public at large. Many of these sites, such as Flickr and Picasa even offer basic editing tools that you can use to clean up and stylize your photos. In fact, if they are good enough, you may even be able to earn some extra money by selling your digital photographs online.
Adobe has taken the online digital photo sharing craze a step further with the advent of Photoshop.com. In addition to allowing users to upload, organize, and perform basic edits to their photographs, Photoshop.com is also able to connect to both Photoshop Elements 7 and Premiere Elements 7. This latter feature lets you back up and synch the digital photos from your hard drive with those in your online gallery. Sound pretty cool? Let’s see how it works.
| Account Creation | Rating  |
One thing I hate about a lot of online photo sharing sites is that it seems to take forever to input all the information needed to create an account. I was both surprised and impressed that the account creation process at Photoshop.com was quick and easy, only taking a few moments. Only basic data was requested and I was able to start testing the features out right away.
Before getting started, you may want to make sure that your computer meets the following system requirements needed for the web site to function properly. These requirements aren’t very stringent, but certain browsers don’t handle Photoshop.com very well. For instance, I was able to view my online library with Google Chrome, but I couldn’t access many of the other functions in the site with that browser.
- Windows XP/Vista or Mac OS 10.4 (or later)
- Minimum screen resolution of 1024 x 768
- 512 MB RAM
- Internet Explorer 6 or 7 (on Windows PCs), Safari 3.0.4 or later (Mac), or Firefox 2 or later (Windows or Mac)
- Flash Player 9
| User Interface | Rating  |
The user interface of Photoshop.com is very intuitive and quite easy to navigate. For quick help, you can mouse over a particular area of the screen and a pop-up bubble will appear with brief information on that tool or feature. If you need additional assistance, you can check out the forums or Adobe’s user support site.
Continue on to the next page of this review to find out more about the features and pricing structure of Photoshop.com.