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Adobe quickly picked up on the concerns regarding the terms of service and issued the following statement:

"Statement for Terms of Service Issues:
We've heard your concerns about the terms of service for Photoshop Express beta. We reviewed the terms in context of your comments - and we agree that it currently implies things we would never do with the content. Therefore, our legal team is making it a priority to post revised terms that are more appropriate for Photoshop Express users. We will alert you once we have posted new terms.

Thank you for your feedback on Photoshop Express beta and we appreciate your input.

-Adobe Photoshop Express Team"

I will post a link (and my comments) to their revised "Terms of Service" as soon as I received a copy.

Adobe Photoshop Express

Adobe Systems today announced the public beta of their online tool called Adobe® Photoshop® Express.
This tool will allow you to do basic editing (fixing) of photos through your web browser. It requires Flash 9 to be installed. The public beta period is
free but their license agreement does not exclude a possible future subscription service.

Before using the service one must first create an account. This was really painless but please make a note on the license agreement. The following paragraph (paragraph 8) in the terms and conditions is a concern to me and I will need to digest it a bit more before I will be willing to upload my award winning photos:

"Adobe does not claim ownership of Your Content. However, with respect to Your Content that you submit or make available for inclusion on publicly accessible areas of the Services, you grant Adobe a worldwide, royalty-free, nonexclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, and fully sublicensable license to use, distribute, derive revenue or other remuneration from, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, publicly perform and publicly display such Content (in whole or in part) and to incorporate such Content into other Materials or works in any format or medium now known or later developed."

Read the full terms here: https://www.photoshop.com/express/terms.html

Anyhow, after signing up for the beta program I tried out the tool and although all the photo enhancements are limited to the whole picture, I was quite impressed with what is possible. Also note that all changes are made in a non-destructive manner which means that you can always remove any changes you made to the photo.

Read the offical press release here:
http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressreleases/200803/032708PhotoshopExpress.html
This photo (taken with my HTC phone and edited in Photoshop Express) I gladly "sublicense" to Adobe!

Lets give it a go!

This is my second attempt at blogging!

My previous attempt (http://sunbirdsays.blogspot.com/) was done in Afrikaans for my Afrikaans friends – in fact – it was actually done at the time my good friend Donovan (http://6degreesaway.blogspot.com/) moved to Australia. We used it as a means of keeping in touch with one another. As Donovan's new career took off in his new Country, the sharing became less and less frequent and eventually stopped.

This blog will have a very different focus – to share my ideas about digital photography and how I get that little bit extra out of my photography.

I’ve been showing some of my photos to my fellow photographers, and even showed a few how I managed to get that little bit extra. I decided it is time to share it with some new friends! I will also use this blog to share with you some of my favourite sites and tools that I use in my photography.

I hope you will enjoy my posts and that you will share your ideas with me as well.