Let’s see what Adobe’s Photoshop Express brings to us.

The service is currently available only to users from US (according to Membership or Sign-up form), but it works fine if you select US as your country.

After your Photoshop Express ID is created you must verify your email and then you are able to start uploading, organizing, editing, storing (up to 2 GB) and publishing your pictures.

This is how it looks the backend:

First, I wanted to upload photo and see what I can do with it. Upload is easy, and as I can see you can also upload the files from Facebook, Photobucket or Picassa. I am missing a possibility to upload from Flickr! The uploaded photos can be placed into Library or Albums, you can add a caption, rate the picture and of course edit it.

So which editing features are available? In Basics (Crop&Rotate, Auto Correct, Exposure, Red-Eye Removal, Touchup, Saturation), Tuning (White ballance, Highlight, Highlight, Fill Light, Sharpen, Soft Focus) and Effects (PopColor, Hue, Black & White, Tint, Sketch, Disort).

It’s not exactly a set of tools that Photoshop can offer but it’s enough to do some basic editing. If you are advanced user it’s still better to use layers, masks and other fancy features of Photoshop and upload the edited pictures in Photoshop Express.

Today I was testing Virtual Ubiquity’s (owned by Adobe) Flash based Word processor Buzzword.

You can, similar to Google Docs and Microsoft’s Word, edit your text, add images, comments … but it is built in Flex (a free open source framework for building and maintaining rich web applications) and that’s why there are lots of animations making your editing enjoyable. Click on the picture bellow and see the editing screen.

My first thought was that the editor is a bit slow (due to my computer and internet connection) but I really like the user interface. Note the user comments and word count at the bottom.

I unfortunatelly can’t say that I will use it, while it is easier for me to open the word file in Microsoft Word or make a doc in Google Docs (to have all files in one place), but it is nice to know that it exists and that Flash is able to process all this data.

Well, the next Web application on my list is Photoshop Express – the Adobe’s photo editing web site.

As you might know I have another blog named uporabi.net (in translation useit.net). My first post was about the online tabloid Požareport and when I was looking at web statistics I have seen that over 50% of visitors typed požareport as a keyword. So I went looking on google and local search engines … and of course I have found out that my post is listed as first at google.com and google.si. In local search engine najdi.si it’s on the third place. I guess the search engine optimization pays off :)

Here are the proofs:

For those of us who were not able to visit this great event (5.-8. November 2007) there are some pictures and presentations already available.

Presentations at SlideShare
Pictures at flickr.com
Web 2.0 Expo Berlin web site

If you use Mozilla Forefox on a regular basis and you are also an avid user of flickr, facebook, youtube and other nice web services try the new Flock – The Social Web Browser.

The migration of data (bookmarks, feeds, usernames) is quite easy so in less than 15 minutes you’ll get a set of new tools that will make your online life easier.

Today I came across an interesting and highly useful web page for all internet users and your brain cells. Some might call it the future of web navigation, others would agree it’s just a web experiment.

Both might be right.

http://www.dontclick.it is a web page that explores web navigation without clicking. Quite simple, right? Try it first and tell me what do you think! You WILL be amazed about what the developer Alex Franz had made!

Have you ever seen this Porsche USA web site?

Today I’m working on navigation that will look like the one you just have seen. However I have included few important enhancements that are based on accessibility issues which were disregarded by Porsche web developers. The main objective was to make navigation readable, accessible and usable for everybody, not just users who have browsers that support JavaScript (and have JavaScript turned on).

Navigation is made with unordered list and list item HTML tags and styled with CSS. As there were some special visual effects needed I have used Javascript, but nevertheless the navigation works 100% with disabled JavaScript!

By the way, I’ll post the link when it will be embedded into some special web site.