Adobe has joined the ranks of online image editors by launching their new free service, Adobe Photoshop Express beta.  It offers crop and rotate, correct, exposure, red-eye removal, touchup and much more, making it a direct competitor to services such as  Picnik and Phixr.

It also offers photo sharing and online galleries, which brings it into competition with Flickr and enables social networking, with users able to share their photos through Facebook, Picasa and Photobucket.

Aimed at the photo hobbyist, it allows the user to upload, edit and store up to 2GB of photos for free and then exhibit the images there or on a Facebook page for example.  There are also limits of 10MB on uploads and 4000 pixels in height and width for images.

However, considering the photo of Adobe Photoshop as a image editing tool, it is well worth checking out.  Information Week anticipates that it may also be available as a desktop application in the future.