Leave a Review Photoshop Express Photo Editor
Powerful App but Pressures You to Buy
This app seems to be one of the best apps I have seen that gives you lots of options to edit your pics. One BIG downside is the constant pop-up windows that open after almost every edit you make when using the free version. I used the free version about a year ago and am now trying it again, and this newest version has many more pop-ups than earlier versions. I understand that developers want to sell their products and that is fine. It’s business. Some users may require a more powerful paid subscription. Moreover, free versions that may occasionally force a user to click through an advertisement here and there is fine, too. But the frequency with which pop-ups occur in this latest version is Horrendous and losing your work at every turn because the free version suffices for you rather than a more elaborate paid version, is down right Obnoxious. I hope the developers correct this soon, otherwise I WILL be shopping around for a new app.Show lessGuitarSlinger WannaBe
Business Model Flux & Selling Data?
The App is good but a few things have left me miffed.
Firstly, changing what features are available after I’ve already paid for the App is very annoying. My experience: first it’s free, then certain features cost money. I thought: that’s fair and anted up and bought the features that were behind that pay wall . And now features that I regained access to after paying are now restricted past an additional subscription-based model requiring a monthly or yearly fee. I’m not saying the app isn’t worth the fee—it’s great—and I understand that business models change—but what would be fair is to either let people who paid already to be grandfathered in, or at the very least offer an obvious refund for those who paid originally and don’t want to commit to continuous payment.
Secondly, Why do you need access to all my photos? Other apps have come up with convenient interfaces to share what is necessary. I’ve already paid for the app, do you really need to sell my data also? Right now, one must restart the app every time they want to share additional photos. And many apps have more convenient methods—it definitely seems like a way to usher the user toward sharing all their photo data.Show lessDShaull315
Hard to use
This is hard to use. ( I also have photoshop on my PC and I have to search how to do anything. ) It’s not intuitive at all. as for the mobile version here, you can’t really zoom in to get your adjustments to a finer detail. I try to use “heal” and I touch the screen and it just goes all over the place. When I finally get it like I want it, there’s no save or done. You have to start to exit out and then it will ask you if you want to save. Also there’s something in the upper left hand corner of one photo that I want to fix, but it’s up where the clock is on my iPhone screen. I can’t get to it, I can’t drag it down. Great concept, but hard to use.
For example: there appears to be no “save” option. If you exit it just asks you do you want to resume when you reopen the app. If you say “no” does that save it like it is, or undo all the hard work? “Heal” is very difficult to use. Puts part of the picture there you don’t want and doesn’t cover what you’re trying to coverShow lessjengiantkiller
Powerful app when it works
I love using this app to quickly edit my cell phone photos. The variety and ease of the tools are great and allow me to make precise edits to get my photos to look exactly the way I want. I have many presets that I’ve created and saved to the “My Looks” menu that make it easy to replicate my favorite edits across many photos over time- a huge benefit to speed and consistency. However, the app is buggy. It freezes or crashes often. It can be very slow and get “stuck” when switching between menus in the app. And sometimes, it just won’t open certain images. These issues have not been a deal breaker for me- usually shutting down the app and restarting is all that is needed. But it is frustrating and slows down the process when I’m trying to edit several photos. One other wish for this app: once I save a series of edits to “My Looks”- I can no longer see the edit “recipe” for that edit. I wish there was a way to look at the “Looks” you’ve created and see the edits that you used to create that look. Overall, great app- very powerful and gets used almost daily. Like most things in life, does have room for improvements.Show lessAirika8oh
Developer Response
We're so sorry to hear about the app freezing issue. Please write to us at PSX-Feedback-iOS@adobe.com with more details or a screen recording, it will be very helpful for us to investigate and fix the issue. We're here to help. Thank you! ^ChanDisappointed
In my experience the previous separate photoshop apps were superior in their functionality and now I’m being charged for the most basic of editing features that were previously free and have been around for decades. I adored the photoshop mix app and I mourn that I lost it after getting a new phone and cannot get it back. Unfortunately these are the kind of “updates” I have come to expect from adobe. The newer features that integrate machine learning are cool but how typically useful could they be if Adobe needs to put more basic features behind a paywall in addition to the new and interesting features?Maybe they would not need to try and give you less for more if they didn’t alienate customers with this kind of behavior in the first place. I’m sure this kind of strong arming and optimizing for the widest audience (having lots and lots of automatic features at the expense or instead of having fewer feautures that are complex and powerful in their functionality) pays off in the long run but it’s very disappointing as a creator. I would gladly pay a one time fee of like $25 to just have the mix app back but I dont think the current model is reasonable for basic photoshop on the go and it is less functional than previous iterations for my purposes.Show lessXc2391
Photoshop Express VS Aviary
I downloaded this app but never used it because I was so used to using Aviary even long after it was no longer supported or available in the App Store. I got so used to it and it was easy to use and free. Finally when I did an IOS upgrade it rendered Aviary useless. So I had to start using Photoshop Express. It is a lot harder to maneuver around than Aviary but it does have a more extensive and complex feature set. You will get hit with a lot of ads trying to get you to buy the subscription version. Be careful so of the ads are like land mines. You may think you are going to use an adjustment feature and it is a buy button. Be real careful using it, but it does give you really great results. This app does give you a lot of controls, but if you are in a hurry to to do a quick edit and send of a photo I would say try and find another app. I know how to use the desktop Photoshop very well and this app tries to give you those features but if you are on the go and want to do something quick and 123 while walking down the street, this is not the app for you.Show lesscomputronico
Adobe Photoshop just isn’t like other Photo Editing Software
I’ve recently picked up graphic design and sometimes don’t have access to a computer or laptop. So I was skimming through the web searching for an app to help “professionally” edit photos, and I emphasize the quotes. Yes, this app may be professional or made by a professional company; however, the app just isn’t up to standards. I’m trying to blend pictures together, create different stacks, etc. The features just aren’t all there. I’ve just this app back in 2019 and was satisfied with the variety of options when it came to tools and hardware. Unfortunately they’ve reworked the app and made it easier to use, in-turn hindering my ability to make something small into something bigger. I truly hope that Adobe could change or revert back to an older version, or even make a separate app called “Adobe Photobooth”, which is what this app is. You take a picture insert it and it fixes the picture. Not the ability to alter it with others or add other variables to get the picture to your liking. My review is a 1 star, only for the bare reasons of dryness.Show lessRScuffy
I love PS
I use this app a lot express myself by typing over pictures. What I find missing is shadows for the letters, better control over the alignment too. These are attributes that could be improved. Also, I haven’t found any way to coordinate the text and the picture after I type the text. Otherwise, this app serves me pretty well. I’ve tried other apps, but for me Adobe serve me the best. Although I find it a bit expensive, I decided it’s worth the cost. It gives me a huge variety of ways to express myself in a creative way. They’ve been in the business about ever since the dawn of the PC. They know what they are doing, the product is reliable and it works. But with every new product the learning curve is getting out of hand. I like to learn on the fly in my own projects, and an integrated Ai voice guide would be a great improvement, because I don’t like looking at some instructor on another screen with all their blah blah telling me how to do their project. They make me feel like a child, it’s annoying and a lot of what I learn gets lost on the way trying to capture the essence ce of what I want to learn.Show lessEmma Matrixa
Developer Response
Thank your for your valuable feedback. We have added your request in our feature List and will look into it.Good app but..
Good app but they took away photoshop mix app and now since it’s added to this app and not it’s own separate app they want you to have a premium service to access it and add on layered photos which I feel It’s unfair. I feel like if you
Added it to photoshop express then let it do what it did when it was its own separate app and let us access it freely or let us have the option to buy it outright to own without getting a premium service and having to pay monthly for this app. Especially for students who need it truly like me we have photoshop classes well classes that use photoshop and sometimes we don’t finish our work and have to wait till the next day to finish it but since now everything is going digital and some apps are being put on the phones this app will help us finish up any work and especially if needed to use mix and layer and combine photos. I feel it should be given again freely or something without having to pay month to month for the mix cut combine.Show lessScottishRiteMason33
Textual Evidence Taken Out of Context
Hmm, it asked me to write suggestions on how to improve the text options in PS Express, however, I am scratching my head because the title to this screen now requests a review. I’ll do both, I surmise. Onward! This document is a basic bar graph. I figure it is worth noting that while I opened fresco, I closed it once I realized it doesn’t have the bar graph function.
Because I often find myself wondering what qualifications strangers have to write podcasts or even these, my disclaimer is that I am inexperienced in all photo editing & quite unqualified for an educated review on these topics: social media posts, memes & scrapbooking. I did find it punctual that this review asking me to comment on the type features in PSExpress was requested at precisely the moment I was attempting to airdrop my image to my iMac out of frustration… the basic options afforded for typing on my photo didn’t work at all. I offer little, but the reason is more from my hands’ neuropathy than fodder for discussion: Please set a a text box that I can format of my own choosing and not so preset. Thanks!Show lessTessla555
