That’s photoshop­ping to you, Mr Layman.

Yes­ter­day, Adobe released the long-awaited, online ver­sion of the cov­eted Pho­to­shop; Pho­to­shop Express. At first glance it looks impres­sive and offers many neat features.

Now before you go berserk, let us exer­cise some jour­nal­is­tic cau­tion — it’s not every­thing you can do in Pho­to­shop fit into a web browser. Not nearly.

No lay­ers here, no fancy pants mask­ing. But for 95% of your pho­tos, it offers pretty much all you need to fix ‘em up, and it does it with style.

Whether adjust­ing expo­sure, white bal­ance, or hue, touch­ing up blem­ishes, or dis­tort­ing your image, Pho­to­shop Express pro­vides an easy slider and thumb­nails to give you an instant pre­view of your image at var­i­ous set­tings. Even undo is bet­ter than you’d expect.

As one who occa­sion­ally needs to edit images while in work (on my lunch-break, natch), it looks like there will be some tough com­pe­ti­tion between Pho­to­shop Express and my cur­rent favourite online edi­tor, Pic­nik.

via Pho­to­jojo