September 25, 2008 7:16 AM PDT
Photoshop.com Mobile lets someone with Windows Mobile phones view and upload photos.
Photoshop.com Mobile lets someone with Windows Mobile phones view and upload photos.
(Credit: Adobe Systems)
Adobe Systems has gradually extended its Photoshop brand from its beginning as high-end image-editing tool to the Elements consumer-oriented photo software and the Express online photo-editing site. Now the company has begun the next step with Photoshop.com Mobile. The software is "the easiest way to upload, view, and share photos online from your Windows Mobile phone," Adobe said.
This software lets people upload photos from their phones to the Photoshop.com Web site and view photo albums stored online, according to the Photoshop.com Mobile site at Adobe Labs. The beta software, a free download for people in the United States, works on some Windows Mobile-based handsets.
If your device isn't supported, the Photoshop.com site recommends using the Shozu mobile phone software, which lets users upload photos, among other things.
Personally, I'd like to see a mobile phone app that could perform some really basic adjustments--cropping or auto-fixing exposure, for example--but so far at least, this isn't that application. But Photoshop itself is about to enter its 11th major version, CS4, and mobile phones are getting more powerful all the time, so the possibility is there.
But more likely, Adobe sees this software as a tool to increase its customers' online activity. Photoshop Express can be used to for those sorts of adjustments, though even high-powered phones such as Apple's iPhone can't yet use it yet. But with gradually increasing network capacity and mobile-phone processing, this market will become much more mature in a few years.
For a few cautions and further details about Photoshop.com Mobile, see the release notes.
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