A few months back, Adobe mentioned that they were ditching the development of Project ROME and throwing their resources into the development of applications for tablets, including iOS devices. With that in mind, you might want to consider taking a peek at what Adobe's free Photoshop Express, which was updated to version 1.5 yesterday, can do for you.

While not new to the iTunes App Store, Photoshop Express does boast some excellent tools for Photo buffs that want to edit their image files away from their Macs, such as the ability to crop and manipulate image orientation, a number of filters, color correction and even some basic border effects. With version 1.5, Adobe has also baked in full retina display support for iPhone 4 as well as support for the application to upload images while running in the background. Best of all, all of the edits made using the application are non-destructive, allowing you to keep the original version of the file you are working with for prosperity's sake. The application comes in both iPhone and iPad flavors, and can be downloaded here.

So what do you think: Has Adobe's announcement that they're refocusing their efforts on tablet-based applications born any fruit? Give the app a spin and hit the comments--we want to hear from you.

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