Lovers of online photo can now get their fix photo and set their photos in one place.

Adobe (NSDQ: ADBE) announced Thursday the start of public beta testing for its free online service Express Adobe Photoshop editing photos and the community.

Some of the editing options included in Adobe Photoshop Express include: & Crop Rotation, Auto Correct, exposure, removal of the red-eye effect, Touchup, saturation, white balance, highlighted, Lighting, Sharpen, Soft Focus, Hue , Black & White, Hue, Sketch, and distortion. Adobe entry in this space is likely to be felt by other publishing photos online as Picnik, Phixr and Splashup, to name but a few.

Although Adobe has at least half a dozen competing online service photo editing, there are great chances to benefit from branding and fortuitous timing: There are worries at the moment among the Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) ’s Flickr, one of the leading communities sharing photos online, on the staff of the probable future after its acquisition by Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT). (A competitor Flickr, SmugMug, offers discounts to those who flee Flickr “.”)

Adobe Photoshop Express is not likely to be useful to its business customers Photoshop CS3. The service offers up to 2 GB of online storage, and only one or two images of many photographers seriously. Adobe Photoshop Express downloads also limits to 10 megabytes and 4000 pixels in height and width.

The professional photographers often use hundreds of gigabytes of storage and tend to rely on a third party Photoshop plug-ins that are not available via Adobe Photoshop Express.

But Adobe is clearly for photo enthusiasts, at least at this stage. In addition to its range of image adjustment and filtering tools, Adobe Photoshop Express focuses on the sharing of photos and galleries online. It includes links to social networks and sites for sharing photos Facebook, Photobucket, and Picasa, Adobe if the aim is clearly to bring more people into Adobe Photoshop Express.

Adobe Photoshop Express requires Vista or Windows XP, or Mac OS 10.4 +, a minimum screen resolution of 1024×768, 512 MB RAM, Internet Explorer 6 or 7 (Windows), Safari 3.0.4 + (Mac), or Firefox 2 + (Mac or Windows) and Adobe Flash 9.

At some point, Adobe Photoshop Express should be available as a desktop application, like Apple’s iPhoto, once Adobe moves offline to the development of a client using its technology AIR.