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Adobe’s Photoshop Lands On iPhone

AHN — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:00:26 +0000

Adobe’s popular photo editing software ‘Photoshop’ has been ported to the Apple iPhone/iPod Touch with a brand new app. The program offers basic photo editing tools to mobile users and connects them to their online gallery stored at Photoshop.com.

The app is free and lets users edit photos they’ve taken with the iPhone.

The app has made waves with a gesture control interface, similar to a tablet or PDA. In a review, CNet called the interface “one of the more intuitive control methods I’ve seen on a mobile photo-editing app, and can be quite precise once you get the hang of it.”

Adobe PhotoShop iPhone App Finally Available, Well Worth The Wait

James Allen Johnson — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 17:07:48 +0000

It’s been a long time coming, now Adobe has officially launched their Photoshop Mobile app for the iPhone. The app offers quick and simply on device photo editing for both iPhone and iPod touch users. The program allows photos to be cropped, rotated and flipped and even saturated and tinted.

Additional features include exposure and vibrancy tweaking along with other effects and filters typically found on the full PC version of Adobe.

The filters are actually rather impressive, including converting images to black and white and even adding in “Vignette, Pop and Warm Vintage” abilities. The program according to SlashGear also includes a sketch tool which takes your photos and makes them look hand drawn, along with soft focus abilities.

Adobe is also throwing in 2GB of free Photoshop.com storage which can be accessed and upload and downloaded to directly from your iPhone.

The program is free to download from the App Store. Sorry but only U.S. and Canada Customers at this time.

Here’s the full Adobe Press Release:

Adobe Unveils Photoshop.com Mobile for iPhone

New Adobe application brings must-have photo tools and eye-catching effects to iPhone users

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Oct. 9, 2009 — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today introduced Photoshop.com Mobile for iPhone™ application, delivering Adobe® industry-leading digital-imaging technology to users on the go. Photoshop.com Mobile provides consumers a convenient way to edit photos, apply effects and share images instantly with friends — all with the flick of a finger. Seamless integration with users’ free Photoshop.com accounts enables photo sharing and data back-up, saving them valuable space on their iPhones. The application is available free of charge at Apple’s App Store.

“As the digital imaging leader, Adobe is excited to bring Photoshop.com Mobile to iPhone users,” said Doug Mack, vice president and general manager of Consumer and Hosted Solutions at Adobe. “Now, with access to powerful editing and sharing tools, iPhone users are armed with the resources to document all of life’s unexpected moments, make them look their best and then re-live those memories with friends and family.”

Photoshop.com Mobile for iPhone provides a fun, seamless experience to view photos with full-screen previews and edit images with gesture-based editing. Consumers can transform their photos with essential edits like crop, rotate and flip. Users can correct and play with color by adjusting the saturation and tint, enhancing the exposure and vibrancy and converting images to black and white.

Photoshop.com Mobile for iPhone also offers eye-catching special effects. The Sketch tool helps photos look like drawings, and Soft Focus can give photos a subtle blur for artistic effect. With just one click, users can also apply dramatic changes to the look and feel of their photos with effects such as Warm Vintage, Vignette and Pop. Edits or changes can be undone or redone so users can experiment without the worry of losing the original photo.

After making personalized edits, users can upload photos from their iPhone to their Photoshop.com account to view and retrieve their images at a later time from any Internet-connected computer. In addition, Photoshop.com Mobile for iPhone provides the ultimate digital photo wallet, giving users access to their entire Photoshop.com library directly from their iPhone. Photoshop.com offers 2GB of free online photo storage, which equates to over 1,500 photos.

More information on Photoshop.com Mobile for iPhone can be found at: mobile.photoshop.com/iphone.

Adobe Photoshop Family
Adobe Photoshop® CS4 and Photoshop CS4 Extended are at the heart of the Photoshop family, joined by solutions for users at every level who want to bring out the best in their digital images. Photoshop Lightroom® addresses the workflow needs of professional and serious amateur photographers. Photoshop Elements provides exciting tools and sharing options for photo enthusiasts. Lastly, snap shooters can access Photoshop.com for free online photo editing to simply fix and enhance photos and quickly share those images on social-networking sites or through Photoshop.com online galleries.

Pricing and Availability
The Adobe Photoshop.com Mobile for iPhone application is available as a free download from Apple’s App Store on iPhone and iPod touch, or at http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=331975235&mt=8. The application is available in the U.S. and Canada only.

Adobe Acquires Omniture In $1.8 Billion Deal

AHN — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 23:02:24 +0000

San Jose, CA (AHN) – Graphic design software firm Adobe Systems Inc. announced Tuesday the acquisition of online advertising measurement company Omniture Inc. to the tune of $1.8 billion.

The amount represents a $21.50 per share offer to Omniture, 24 percent higher than the Oren, Utah-based firm’s closing price Tuesday. Announcement of the sale caused Adobe shares to slide 4.2 percent to $34.12 a share.

It was Adobe’s biggest acquisition since buying design software company Macromedia Inc. for a whopping $3.4 billion in April 2005. The purchase was also made amid a slumping sales and lower third-quarter profit and sales.

Adobe Chief Executive Officer Shantanu Narayen said Omniture’s software will help Adobe’s customers in their Internet advertising campaigns.

MySpace Gets Silverlight, Facebook Gets Flash. Winner: Facebook.

JR — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:54:24 +0000

MySpace and Facebook have both announced new partnerships for rich media content within their networks. MySpace is teaming up with Microsoft to bring Silverlight functionality to its developer platform, while Facebook is introducing expanded Flash support for its developers. The announcements were, coincidentally enough, revealed on the same day.

MySpace and Silverlight

In unveiling its new deal, MySpace showed off a handful of new Silverlight-powered applications already available, including an animated friend list utility that can be added onto any profile.

“Silverlight empowers MySpace developers with more freedom and flexibility to design OpenSocial applications that provide streaming video, graphics and audio to a variety of platforms and devices,” the announcement says.

“Silverlight and the MySpace Open Platform will enable developers to rapidly create and deliver sophisticated MySpace applications with a custom look and feel through the flexible skinning of controls and data.”

Facebook and Flash

Facebook, on the other hand, is working with Adobe to broaden its support for Flash-based applications. While Flash was already available for Facebook developers, the site is now adding “official support” for the full ActionScript 3.0 Client Library for Facebook Platform.

“With this client library, developers building rich Flash experiences will be able to easily access the social features of Facebook Platform from external websites using Facebook Connect, from applications on Facebook, or from desktop applications,” the announcement says.

“New ideas may include the next generation of social games, seeing friends sharing and commenting on video or music streamed through Flash, or manipulating photos of yourself and your friends.”

Weighing the Two

Despite some people’s strong feelings for Silverlight, the fact remains that the majority of Web users have no idea what it is — and, when prompted to download it to run any MySpace Silverlight application, may or may not even understand the request. Flash, on the other hand, is close to a standard as there is (even without the iPhone on-board). Most computer users already have it installed — about 99 percent, according to some recent stats published in The New York Times.

Despite Microsoft’s attempt to use last year’s Olympics as a launching ground for Silverlight, the platform is still dwarfed by the ubiquity of Flash. Combine that with the ongoing trend of Facebook gaining ground and MySpace losing market share, and it seems the Facebook-Flash pairing is the clear winner all around.

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Did Adobe snub Apple with Flash 10, Palm Pre, and Dev Fund announcements?

Robert Scoble — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 07:07:29 +0000

Just now Adobe announced lots of mobile phone news. More on that in a second. But what wasn’t announced?
No iPhone support for Flash yet.

What else was announced? FlashPlayer 10 will ship on the Palm Pre. I was briefed on the rest of this stuff last week and they were holding out on this news.

Now THAT is the way to poke Steve Jobs and crew in the eye. Apple has famously not put Flash on the iPhone, which keeps a lot of Web experiences from working.

Flash Player 10 for Smartphones
• Browser plug-in for smartphone-class devices with full desktop web compatibility and access to rich applications, interactive content and web videos.
• First operating systems expected to be supported: Android, Windows Mobile, and Nokia S60/Symbian.

Google Learns to Index Flash

JR — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:29:56 +0000

Search engines are finally moving past plain text. Google has announced it’s now indexing Flash content with the help of a new partnership with Adobe.

The company’s new Flash indexing algorithm will let the engine find any kind of SWF content and grab textual content out of it. The system, Google’s software engineers explain, actually “sees” the files the same way a user would — by automatically clicking through the buttons and entering input. It uses a new Searchable SWF library provided by Adobe.

Interestingly, the library was also given to Yahoo — which, fittingly enough, has yet to finish and launch its own version of the Flash index function. Hey, give ‘em a few weeks. It’s not like Yahoo has anything to prove right now.

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Adobe ConnectNow a WebEx Killer?

Duncan Riley — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 09:46:54 +0000

Adobe has launched Acrobat.com, an multi-function office package built around the new version of Adobe Acrobat.

The service offers word processor, PDF converter, conferencing and file storage. The wordprocessor is gorgeous visually, and the PDF converter handy, but it’s Adobe’s ConnectNow service that could be the biggest market disrupter here.

To quote Eric Rice on Scoble: “I just went to Acrobat.com and played with Adobe’s online office suite. Holy crap. That ConnectNow is the greatest thing I’ve ever seen.”

Adobe ConnectNow is a cross platform web conferencing solution that is easy to access and simple to use. Built (I presume) using Adobe’s AIR platform, it’s functional, good looking, and has a kick-ass range of features including support for webcams/ video conferencing, chat, VOIP + landline support (you get a call-in number if you want one), all this on top of the desktop sharing. Best of all is the price: free with support for a max of 3 meeting participants. There is also a paid Pro version that supports up to 1500 people.

I had a quick play with it and the most impressive thing: it just worked on my Mac, unlike a good portion of WebEx’s offering which only works on a PC (and I’ve been caught not being able to get on conferences before because of this). Given AIR runs on Linux I’d presume that ConnectNow will work on Linux boxes as well.

WebEx has established markets and customers, but Adobe isn’t a foreign brand name in the corporate space, giving the service an immediate leg up in awareness and trust.

The full Adobe.com guide below using the embed feature from the share part of the service (it can be opened to full screen via the arrow top right…they won’t be taking business from Scribd in this space).