PhotoShop.com Mobile

by Antonio Wells Nov 11, 2009 6:54 AM – 9 Comments

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PhotoShop.com Mobile. Transform photos with essential edits like crop, rotate and flip. Drag your finger across photos to adjust saturation and tint. Auto–upload and share your photos with a free Photoshop.com account. From Adobe, the makers of Photoshop.

Price: Free

AndroidTapp.com Android App Review:

Pros & Cons:

Pros

Manipulate photos with effects directly on your phone
Share and Upload to PhotoShop.com Account

Cons

Limited features
Persistent background processing, attributes to performance/battery drain

Features:

Photoshop.com Mobile Android App allows you to edit photos on your phone and upload to their photo sharing service. Though a limited feature set you can Crop, Straighten, Rotate, Flip, manipulate Exposure, Saturation, Tint, convert to Black and White, and set Soft Focus on photos.

Gripe Alert: Being a Graphic Designer by trade, I was a bit disappointed with Adobe’s debut onto the Android platform, especially since this version offers slightly less features than the iPhone version.

I understand the rationale for background processing for the app, continuous upload while performing other tasks… but what if you’re not uploading to Photoshop.com? Worse, the app persistently inserts itself into background processing even if killed with TasKiller or Advanced Task Killer. :-(

: PhotoShop Mobile Phone Gallery

: PhotoShop Mobile Photo in Gallery

: PhotoShop Mobile Photo Options

: PhotoShop Mobile Edit Photo Options

: PhotoShop Mobile Crop Photo Options

: PhotoShop Mobile Soft Focus Photo Options

: PhotoShop Mobile Effects Photo Options

: PhotoShop Mobile Exposure Editing

: PhotoShop Mobile Straighten Editing

: PhotoShop Mobile Rotate Editing

: PhotoShop Mobile Flip Editing

: PhotoShop Mobile Crop Editing

: PhotoShop Mobile Saturation Editing

: PhotoShop Mobile Tint Editing

: PhotoShop Mobile Black and White Editing

Usefulness:

Not a world of useful but a nice to have app. Worth trying but I would suggest checking out Eric Wijngaard’s PicSay for more photo manipulation capabilities.

Ease of Use:

The app is easy to use on most features but could use some intuitive work on the Saturation & Exposure editing (however I would suggest checking out this How-To video as a refresher).

Frequently Used:

User dependent… even more frequent if coupled with their online photo service.

Interface:

The user interface is sleek, intuitive and mobile optimized.

AndroidTapp.com Rating

AndroidTapp.com Rating! (3.8 out of 5)

Should you Download PhotoShop.com Mobile? Yes! Worth a Try, Don’t forget to Signup for a PhotoShop.com Account!

Developer: Adobe Systems

Tags: Adobe, Android Apps, AndroidTapp.com App Review, mobile photo manipulation, PhotoShop, PhotoShop.com Mobile

Categorised in: Multimedia

9 Comments

By TK on November 11, 2009 at 8:52 am:

I find it unacceptable for apps to continuously run in the background by force, so I uninstalled it. Was a really nice app though.

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- By Brady Kroupa on November 19, 2009 at 10:52 pm:
  
  Hi, my name is Brady Kroupa and I’m the Engineering Lead on Photoshop.com Mobile for Android. I just wanted to say we appreciate your feedback and will be releasing an update soon.
  
  Please check out this blog post for more information.
  http://blogs.adobe.com/photoshopdotcom/2009/11/why_doesnt_photoshopcom_mobile_quit.html
  
  Cheers,
  Brady
  
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  - By Android Tapp on November 19, 2009 at 11:01 pm:
    
    Brady thank you for that feedback! We look forward to the application update!!
    
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By schwiz on November 11, 2009 at 11:29 am:

nice initial release but needs ALOT of work, its lacking many features compared to its no-name competitors. Also whats up with the upload intent? Its nice they have their own upload server but at least give us the option for email, twitter, facebook, etc throught the proper intent.

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By brian on November 11, 2009 at 10:53 pm:

This program does so very little. I would expect with Adobes name on it, it would be something good. It does nothing but drain battery life. It doesn’t have a sharpen tool, which would be the single most desired tool for a phone IMHO. Junk.

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By Paul on November 13, 2009 at 12:58 pm:

Agreed that the background processing (even when you decline via the Settings to share, and even when you are logged out from Adobe.com!) is totally unnecessary and justifies uninstalling the app.

Adobe needs to get the message. All their effort was wasted on this app if it hogs memory resources needlessly.

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By 10-8 on November 16, 2009 at 1:51 pm:

I found that after I installed this, I had about 2 hours of battery life, while the phone just sat unplugged. One day it went from full to under half full in 25 minutes. As my wife said, “that is a big FAIL!”

I really had a lot of hope for this app, as it offered some nice, basic photo editing capabilities. Keep trying adobe, I haven’t totally lost faith yet.

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By archboy on November 18, 2009 at 2:00 pm:

Thought it might be a nice app but why does it need to run in the background if I am not using it? Installed.

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By Schnickelg on February 20, 2010 at 11:20 am:

Why does this application need to access my contact data?

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