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The update primarily extends support for emailing images, by adding a tool for importing contacts from Gmail, Hotmail and Yahoo, and adds “social” features by providing users with regular updates of images posted on friends’ galleries. Click Browse to view galleries and add friends, much like you would in Flickr, for example, but with all the inconvenience of Flash.

Adobe is also providing the option to buy extra storage to add to the 2GB you get when you sign up. You can add 20GB for $19.99 a year, 40GB for $39.99 a year; or 100GB for $99.99 a year. This seems expensive, given that $25 per year will buy a Flickr Pro account with unlimited storage.

What the online Photoshop does have that the out-of-the-box Flickr lacks is a powerful set of editing tools, as you would expect given the software’s provenance. You can try them for free at photoshop.com.