Adobe has launched an online Beta version of its most famous industry-leading software, titled Photoshop Express. While lagging behind Picnik and FotoFlexer in historical terms, it’s very arrival is a grand statement for the web apps segment. PSE houses a slick interface (which I prefer over PS itself), integration with external services like Facebook, Photobucket and Picasa (what? no Flickr?!), and of course a world-dominating brand that knows no equal.

This Flash-based app gives users a paltry two gigs of storage and offers many of the same, standardized tools Photoshop that users have become intimately familiar with, although with more web-friendly labels. Even though I haven’t yet spent quality time with this product, it looks like a promising beginning in the blazing hot web apps space.