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Adobe Photoshop Express
Since Photoshop is arguably one of the best applications ever, I had to try the new Adobe Photoshop Express. One of the first things I noticed was the "Transferring data from api.photoshop.com". Similar to what others observed, you have to wonder where Adobe is going with this. Are they catching the mashup bug?

For now I think I'll stick with my Paint.NET at home for financial reasons. I've only used Photoshop (and never Elements), so can't compare it to much. But I did find the Express interface fairly straightforward and responsive.  When I hovered my mouse over my test image, I almost accidently discovered the "Photo Options", which touts a "Link" and "Embed" option.  Here's an screenshot of a screenshot of Express in Express as an embedded image that links to the version in my public gallery.  (That sure sounds confusing.)

I think there might be more value in doing this same sort of thing but with videos.  (And I seem to recall seeing a few sites that do simple video editing.)  Since it can take lots of horsepower to do video manipulation, I'd think you could do it "in the cloud" faster than on the average person's home machine.  Plus, if you are mashing up with other (video) content already on the Web, it might make more sense to leverage the bigger pipes of some Internet hosted application.