Has anyone tried their hands yet on Adobe’s new web image-editing tool, Photoshop Express?

I took a test drive and found it stylish, intuitive, social, and equipped with the very necessary image-editing functions. Completely appealing.

Just like Adobe’s Photoshop Lightroom, it neatly organizes and tells you in a glance how many photos you have in your library and the respective albums they are in.

Intrigued but skeptical as I am, I logged in to my Facebook account from Photoshop Express, half expecting something totally inconvenient that will prompt me to end my test drive. But I was pleasantly surprised at how easy I was able to access to my photos on Facebook.

I moused over one of my recent favorites to find options to edit, download, or embed it on my blog. Intuitive.

The editing options were less than power-packed, but definitely comprehensive enough for the purpose of image-editing on the web. It’s not meant to replace serious image-editing anyway.

The Gallery is another neat way to share your albums with the community and your friends.

I like the convenience of it all. Definitely worth recommending to your Facebook, Picasa friends.

Talented computer graphics artists are really cool people! The Keira Knightley shown here is illustrated by Paul Bush with the use of some amazing Adobe Illustrator magic (with most of the magic coming from the Gradient Mesh tool).

There’s also very realistic vector illustrations of other movie stars such as Angelina Jolie, Halle Berry, Elijah Wood and…*gasp*…Gollum!

Be sure of to check out this tutorial if you aspire to be one of them great artists.