The big news flying around blogland today is that Photoshop has finally made a small free version of their famous program available to everyone online (everyone in the US that is).  Adobe Photoshop Express.  I tested it out... and I have to say that I am decidedly unimpressed.  I think that even for those who don't use Photoshop in their everyday life (or have never used a photo editing program) it is rather complicated yet bland.  How many people want to change a photo into a florescent hued version of the original (one of their special "effects" called Hue)?!  I much prefer tools that enhance the original (in all the right ways of course)!

...So where does this leave us with all our waning excitement... Flickr of course!  I admittedly never use Flickr's photo editing tools because I have the full version of Photoshop (the real thing = awesome) and don't need to... but just for the sake of comparison, I edited a photo on flickr (account required) and in the free version of Photoshop released today (account required)... and here are the results: 

Please note that each of the processes used here could either be toned up or down... these are just the examples I chose for comparison.