Adobe Photoshop Available on Mobile Phones

At first, Adobe Photoshop became the market leader for commercial bitmap and image manipulation on PCs. Later, it extended the Photoshop brand to consumer-oriented photo software and online photo-editing. Now, it seems that Adobe is aiming for the mobile market as well, with its new Adobe Photoshop.com Mobile.

For the time being, the program is only in beta version, and is available for download on the Adobe website, for a free trial. Users are required three things in order be able to try Photoshop Mobile: have a photoshop.com membership account, be US customers, and own a handset that supports Windows Mobile.

The new Adobe software doesn't have all the features you can find on your Adobe Photoshop version for PC. Photoshop Mobile will allow users only a limited number of actions and, at the moment, it seems like none is even remotely linked to image manipulation.

With this program, users will be able to upload photos from their phone to their online library on Photoshop.com and share them, view their entire online library of photos from their phone, browse their photo albums on Photoshop.com, and change their status from public to private and back again at any time. Furthermore, they will be able not only to view the photos they have stored, but also to delete them. The space provided online for each user will be of 2GB.

Come to think of it, what Adobe built here is nothing more than a simple tool that allows users to save their images on a website. This might seem a bit futile, since, given the storage space that today's mobile phones have, 2GB of images is almost close to nothing. Without a doubt, it would have been really great if Photoshop Mobile allowed users to do at least some basic image manipulation, like resize, crop and auto-fixing exposure. Hopefully, we will soon have a program that will do just that but, until then, we'll just have to wait patiently.