Photoshop Express Photo Editor Review for Teachers | Common Sense Education
Photoshop Express Photo Editor is the ideal tool to teach the fineries of photo editing. It’s intuitive enough for beginners and has plenty of headroom for savvy users, too. The collage maker is a great way to showcase photos and is loaded with lots of layout, styling, and formatting options. Consider using PS Express to document class projects, field trips, professional development and PBL projects; use it to design school yearbooks, or to make photo collage posters for a Science Fair, a school play, or other special event. Students can create visual journals of engaging projects over the course of their term, even through the years, complete with text overlay. For a modern spin, students can custom-create images for their school’s social media sites using a wide variety of in-app templates, complete with instant preview. Imagine empowered students designing YouTube video thumbnails and channel artwork, or promotional pictures for school fundraisers or events. Full-feature sharing defaults to off, so opt in to share with social media networks.
Photoshop Express Photo Editor is an app for photo editing and collage making with many features tuned to social media sharing. It’s loaded with features, including standards like Instagram-like filters and effects, blemish and red-eye removers, color/brightness/exposure adjustments, borders, text overlays, and collage templates. Tools are arranged along the top and bottom of the screen; each has a handy slider to adjust the desired effect. Students won’t get locked into edits; they can undo every action in order until they return to the original image. They can also quickly glance at the original image anytime to compare. Sharing features abound, with opt-in sharing across popular social media networks. Students and teachers can email creations directly from the app or save to the device’s camera roll. No cutesy stickers, GIFs, or emoji options, however, so it’s more for collage making purists.
Standout features include Text Styles (great for social media images), Perspective Correction, and My Looks (the ability to save custom adjustments for future use). As with any Adobe Creative Cloud product, PS Express projects are fully compatible with any other Adobe product.
