Adobe has always been the numero uno choice in desktop graphics and Flash still continues to rule the roost in animating the web, despite the imminent danger from Microsoft’s Silverlight. However, image editing has slowly but surely leaving the bounds of the desktop and Adobe is trying hard to catch up with the trends.

After announcing new versions of its traditional image and video editors, Photoshop Elements 7 and Premier Elements 7, Adobe also announced a new flash based mobile application, the Photoshop.com Mobile for Windows and Palm based smartphones. Prospective beta testers should not be expecting even a fraction of Photoshop’s transformative powers but rather a stripped down version of the Photoshop Express Beta in a dedicated mobile UI. Moreover, the new mobile app doesn’t facilitate direct mobile editing of photos but does allow users to upload photos to their Photoshop.com accounts at the click of a button.

Adobe Photoshop.com Mobile will allow you to upload, view, and share your photos online from your phone. All you need is a supported Windows Mobile phone and your Photoshop.com account ID. Have Photoshop.com Mobile upload photos from your phone to your Photoshop.com account as soon as you take them. This represents Adobe’s realization of the ubiquity of multi-megapixel camera phones, along with the desire by users to shoot photos and immediately post them to their favorite social network or media-sharing site. It’s an obvious approach to counter offerings from competitors such as Google’s Picassa, Flikr and other web-based photo-storage services.  Since Adobe has already carved a nice following in the realm of photography and photo-editing, the move makes perfect sense.

Five handsets will be supported in the beta group: Motorola Q 9h and Q Music 9m, Samsung Blackjack I and II, and Palm Treo 750w. Adobe says interaction with the Shozu uploader will also be added in September, giving a larger selection of devices the ability to upload photos to Photoshop.com. The inclusion of Shozu into the plans makes life easier for Photoshop’s Indian users since Windows Mobile Devices still haven’t managed to run well in a country where NOKIA is still considered the God of mobile phones.

The mobile app will work with Adobe’s existing Web-based image editing and storage service, Photoshop Express, which is being rebranded as Photoshop.com. While a basic version with 5GB storage will remain available for free, regardless of whether you buy Elements or Premiere, Adobe will offer people who purchase either of the packages separately ($100 each) or the two as a $150 bundle, the option of upgrading to Photoshop.com Plus, with 20GB of storage, for $50 a year. A dedicated Photoshop.com Mobile Beta client will be available as a free download in September.

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