So you’ve had a digital camera for a few years now. You’ve probably taken thousands of photos with this camera, because why not? After all, a limitless number of photos can easily be downloaded and stored in your home computer, hard drive, or removable disks. But what happens to the photos from there?

If you’re like most of us, they sit in the depths of digital storage rooms collecting virtual dust. With the ability to capture so many memories and celebratory moments digitally, wouldn’t it be nice to actually do something with all those wonderful photos? Or maybe the photos didn’t turn out quite the way you had hoped – someone blinked in a group photo or your child’s eyes just can’t seem to escape that “red eye” look.

In any case, Adobe offers several great programs that allow photographers – from the most amateur shutterbug to professionals – to manipulate digital images and “doctor” them to the owner’s liking. Pacific News Bytes has taken a closer look at the three primary Adobe Photoshop graphic editing programs, beginning with the simplest and ending with the
most advanced.

Adobe Photoshop Express
The most recent release from Adobe, Photoshop Express is currently available as a free Rich Internet Application available to anyone who wants to store, sort and show off digital photos with eye-catching
effects. During the public beta period, Adobe will solicit Photoshop Express user feedback on product features and functionality, which will continue to evolve over time.

With Photoshop Express, digital photos can be uploaded and sorted anytime, edited non-destructively to always preserve the original image, and shared from anywhere, on any Web browser.

As the newest addition to the Photoshop family line, Photoshop Express has taken much of Adobe’s best image editing technology and made it simple and accessible to a new online audience. Photoshop Express allows users to store up to 2 gigabytes of images online for free, make edits to their photos, and share them online in creative ways, including downloading and uploading photos from popular social networking sites like Facebook.

Photoshop is trusted technology that has changed the visual landscape of our world. Now, Photoshop Express allows anyone who snaps a digital photo to easily achieve the high-impact results for which Adobe is known - said Doug Mack, vice president of Consumer and Hosted Solutions at Adobe.

Photoshop Express is a convenient, single destination where you can store, edit and share photos whether you’re at home, school or on the road.

With Photoshop Express, digital photos can be uploaded and sorted anytime, edited non-destructively to always preserve the original image, and shared from anywhere, on any Web browser. In a few easy clicks, Photoshop Express empowers anyone to make standard edits, such as removing blemishes and red-eye, converting to black and white, cropping and resizing, and much more.

Adobe Photoshop Express beta is available now for free via any Web browser at http://www.photoshop.com/express.