Setup
Photoshop Express runs on any device running Android 4.0.3 and up. I tested on an "old" Samsung Galaxy SIII running 4.0.4 (Ice Cream Sandwich) and on a new Nexus 5 $29.99 at Amazon running KitKat 4.4.2. It makes just modest privacy demands for a 2014 app—just storage, network communication, and account credentials—no demands for location or notification permissions, as most apps these days do. At 22MB, nor is it an unduly weighty app on your storage. You can start using the app right away, without the requirement of signing up for an account as so many apps these days enforce before you can even kick their tires.
Interface
As you might expect from the design software leader, Express's interface is impressive but clear and simple. The first time you open the app, you'll see a beautiful slideshow with pointers about what it can do, and then the entry interface of three large stacked buttons—Open from Adobe Revel, Take a Picture, and Open from Gallery. Of course if you choose to open from Revel, you'll need a Revel account. Any previous account for Adobe, Photoshop.com, or Carousel works, too.
Shooting photos happens in your phone's default camera app, but once you've snapped a shot, you're taken seamlessly to Photoshop Express's editing interface.
Here I got a choice of 22 instant effect filters , including Vibrant, a season-themed quartet of choices, two very different B&W options, and some impressive punchy and vivid looks.
As in Instagram, these effects are on-and-off only there's no slider to control their strength. What you don't get are tools for creating a couple of hot photo effects based on selective focus—bokeh and tilt-shift. Many mobile apps, even Instagram, now offer these, which can draw attention to a subject or give a scene a miniaturized look. There's also no overlay or text tools—the iPhone version offers frames, which are missing in this Android app version.
Correcting Photos—Auto and Manual Adjustments
When it comes to nitty-gritty image adjustments—brightness, contrast, sharpness, and so on, the app uses the same thumbnail previews showing the effects—a helpful though surprisingly rare approach for a mobile photo-editing app. Big, easy to move slider buttons let me adjust a surprising number of characteristics from Adobe's bigger, more expensive software, including sharpness, Temperature, on top of the basics.
I was also impressed that adjustments included Shadows, Highlights, Clarity, and Vibrance, in addition to the common Brightness and Contrast controls. The first two are important for fixing images that aren't uniformly lit, and the last two are a surefire way to make a previously bland image pop. One thing missing is the iOS version's noise reduction, though this is an in-app extra purchase on Apple's mobiles.
You can bypass fussy adjustments altogether with the magic wand button at the top of the screen. This algorithmically optimizes exposure, contrast, and white balance. But as with just about every auto-fix tool I've seen, results vary from photo to photo. On one test picture, the autocorrect seemed to brighten the image too much, though on several other photos it did a decent job of correcting under and overexposure.
Geometry corrections aren't lacking in the app: A competent, easy-to-use cropping tool lets you reshape to set standard aspect ratios or in free form. It also lets you straighten lopsided horizons as well as rotate or flip your image.
Finally, the app includes red-eye correction. After choosing this fix from its eye icon along the main toolbar, you simply tap on the photo's red eyes. It worked tolerably well, but on one fix added some artifacts elsewhere in the image. Aside from this red-eye fix, the app offers no localized adjustments such as dodge, burn, or blemish correction.
Sharing
Like all of Adobe's recent consumer media apps, the new Photoshop for Android integrates with the company's Revel online photo-syncing service. Revel provides a convenient way of storing, accessing, and re-sharing your images and videos. You can also simply open any photos shared from the app in other Revel-aware programs like Photoshop Elements.
Note that there's no separate Android app for Revel like the iPhone has; this means you can't manage your Revel albums in an app, but you can do this on Adobe's mobile Revel site. From here, you can even send images to the local Walgreens for printing.
If Revel's not for you, the app's Share paper plane icon can take your images to any app that accepts photos as sharing fodder—Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, and so on.
Starting from Photoshop Roots
It's hard to deny that Adobe is the king of digital media software, and the tools in this free, entry-level app are of high quality and good design. Adobe Photoshop Elements offers an impressive set of both basic photo-editing tools and powerful filters. Other mobile apps like Snapseed (our mobile photo-editing Editors' Choice) and Aviary offer a bit more control and enhancements, including text overlays and localized adjustments, but the tools you do get in Photoshop Express are top-notch, as you'd only expect from the image software leader.
Photoshop Express runs on any device running Android 4.0.3 and up. I tested on an "old" Samsung Galaxy SIII running 4.0.4 (Ice Cream Sandwich) and on a new Nexus 5 $29.99 at Amazon running KitKat 4.4.2. It makes just modest privacy demands for a 2014 app—just storage, network communication, and account credentials—no demands for location or notification permissions, as most apps these days do. At 22MB, nor is it an unduly weighty app on your storage. You can start using the app right away, without the requirement of signing up for an account as so many apps these days enforce before you can even kick their tires.
Interface
As you might expect from the design software leader, Express's interface is impressive but clear and simple. The first time you open the app, you'll see a beautiful slideshow with pointers about what it can do, and then the entry interface of three large stacked buttons—Open from Adobe Revel, Take a Picture, and Open from Gallery. Of course if you choose to open from Revel, you'll need a Revel account. Any previous account for Adobe, Photoshop.com, or Carousel works, too.
Shooting photos happens in your phone's default camera app, but once you've snapped a shot, you're taken seamlessly to Photoshop Express's editing interface.
Here I got a choice of 22 instant effect filters , including Vibrant, a season-themed quartet of choices, two very different B&W options, and some impressive punchy and vivid looks.
As in Instagram, these effects are on-and-off only there's no slider to control their strength. What you don't get are tools for creating a couple of hot photo effects based on selective focus—bokeh and tilt-shift. Many mobile apps, even Instagram, now offer these, which can draw attention to a subject or give a scene a miniaturized look. There's also no overlay or text tools—the iPhone version offers frames, which are missing in this Android app version.
Correcting Photos—Auto and Manual Adjustments
When it comes to nitty-gritty image adjustments—brightness, contrast, sharpness, and so on, the app uses the same thumbnail previews showing the effects—a helpful though surprisingly rare approach for a mobile photo-editing app. Big, easy to move slider buttons let me adjust a surprising number of characteristics from Adobe's bigger, more expensive software, including sharpness, Temperature, on top of the basics.
I was also impressed that adjustments included Shadows, Highlights, Clarity, and Vibrance, in addition to the common Brightness and Contrast controls. The first two are important for fixing images that aren't uniformly lit, and the last two are a surefire way to make a previously bland image pop. One thing missing is the iOS version's noise reduction, though this is an in-app extra purchase on Apple's mobiles.
You can bypass fussy adjustments altogether with the magic wand button at the top of the screen. This algorithmically optimizes exposure, contrast, and white balance. But as with just about every auto-fix tool I've seen, results vary from photo to photo. On one test picture, the autocorrect seemed to brighten the image too much, though on several other photos it did a decent job of correcting under and overexposure.
Geometry corrections aren't lacking in the app: A competent, easy-to-use cropping tool lets you reshape to set standard aspect ratios or in free form. It also lets you straighten lopsided horizons as well as rotate or flip your image.
Finally, the app includes red-eye correction. After choosing this fix from its eye icon along the main toolbar, you simply tap on the photo's red eyes. It worked tolerably well, but on one fix added some artifacts elsewhere in the image. Aside from this red-eye fix, the app offers no localized adjustments such as dodge, burn, or blemish correction.
Sharing
Like all of Adobe's recent consumer media apps, the new Photoshop for Android integrates with the company's Revel online photo-syncing service. Revel provides a convenient way of storing, accessing, and re-sharing your images and videos. You can also simply open any photos shared from the app in other Revel-aware programs like Photoshop Elements.
Note that there's no separate Android app for Revel like the iPhone has; this means you can't manage your Revel albums in an app, but you can do this on Adobe's mobile Revel site. From here, you can even send images to the local Walgreens for printing.
If Revel's not for you, the app's Share paper plane icon can take your images to any app that accepts photos as sharing fodder—Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, and so on.
Starting from Photoshop Roots
It's hard to deny that Adobe is the king of digital media software, and the tools in this free, entry-level app are of high quality and good design. Adobe Photoshop Elements offers an impressive set of both basic photo-editing tools and powerful filters. Other mobile apps like Snapseed (our mobile photo-editing Editors' Choice) and Aviary offer a bit more control and enhancements, including text overlays and localized adjustments, but the tools you do get in Photoshop Express are top-notch, as you'd only expect from the image software leader.
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