Adobe agreed to modify a clause in its terms of service for Photoshop Express, its free Web-based version of Photoshop.

Shortly after the application went online, many users expressed their discontent regarding a specific clause in ToS.

Specifically, the clause goes like this: “Adobe does not claim ownership of Your Content. However, with respect to Your Content that you submit or make available for inclusion on publicly accessible areas of the Services, you grant Adobe a worldwide, royalty-free, nonexclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, and fully sublicensable license to use, distribute, derive revenue or other remuneration from, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, publicly perform and publicly display such Content (in whole or in part) and to incorporate such Content into other Materials or works in any format or medium now known or later developed”

Adobe reacted quickly and John Nack, Senior Product Manager wrote in his blog that the legal team is looking is revisiting the terms.

“We reviewed the terms in context of your comments - and we agree that it currently implies things we would never do with the content.  Therefore, our legal team is making it a priority to post revised terms that are more appropriate for Photoshop Express users”, the Photoshop Express team said.

Photoshop Express is the first venture of Adobe in the SaS (software as a service) market. The application aims to attract new, mainstream users, who will be able to upload, store and edit their digital photographs through a browser, not needing to download any software on their computer. After registering for an account, users get 2GB of free storage space. Another feature that may make the service popular is the link with social networking sites designed especially for image sharing, such as Facebook or Photobucket.

The users will have easy access to simple features such as removing blemishes, cropping or resizing a photo, removing red-eye effect, convert to black and white, or distort facial features to obtain funny effects.