While professional photographers should not start ditching their copies of Aperture, Lightroom or Photoshop, Adobe has taken the wraps off of an interesting new service aimed at the consumer photographer.

Dubbed Photoshop Express and referred to as a "Rich Internet Application," the new service allows photographers to not only upload and share files, but crop them, rotate them, adjust them and fix them online, all with a browser from any Internet connection.

Once images are uploaded and tweaked with Photoshop Express, they can be displayed in some pretty unique way—the galleries leave Flicker and Google Images in the dust.

The interface is very pretty and almost seamlessly like an actual application. It's safe to say that this is one of the first applications that leaves the Web 2.0 space and starts to move to Web 3.0.

It's even possible to suck images in directly from Facebook, Photobucket or Picasa without having to re-upload the images.

Unlike traditional photo sharing sites, Photoshop Express allows users to actually perform edits to images right on the web through a rather slick interface.

For a beta program, it has a huge amount of potential. And if nothing else, it's going to be a kick in the pants to the guys over at Flicker and some of the other photo sharing sites. Still, the site's not perfect. While it's clear how to edit pictures and add them to albums, clicking on the My Gallery link doesn't just let you pick pictures and go from there. You have to make albums first and then add those albums to galleries. More vexing is the fact that when you go back and make an album, you select the album with no pictures in it, forcing you to re-load all of your photos again to move files into the album.

Still, it's the first day with a new tool and Adobe's got to be commended for raising the bar in the online photo editing and sharing space.

Use of the site is free at photoshop.com/express and Adobe is encouraging feedback from users.