adobe systems

A test version of Adobe Systems' Lightroom 4.3 has added partial support for Apple's Retina displays and other high-resolution screens.

The Lightroom 4.3 release candidate, available on Adobe Labs, shows photos in the develop module so that one pixel in the original photo occupies one pixel on the screen. That means a much sharper and detailed image than with the older Lightroom 4.2, which scales images so that one pixel on the photo occupies four pixels on the screen.

I was worried that Adobe would Retina support for Lightroom 5, which presumably will be a paid … Read more

Adobe Systems isn't making any promises, but an update to company's Digital Negative (DNG) image format paves the way for two important features in Lightroom: panoramas and high-dynamic range photography.

Lightroom is for editing, cataloging, and publishing photos, especially those shot in higher-end cameras' raw formats. Raw photos consist of data captured directly from the image sensor without in-camera processing into a JPEG. Although raw photos offer better quality and flexibility, they're also much less convenient than JPEGs.

One aspect of their inconvenience is that raw photos usually arrive in proprietary formats from camera makers. Adobe has … Read more

Apparently experiencing what Adobe Systems called the "full Web" on mobile devices isn't so important after all.

In a momentous about-face, Adobe Systems is scrapping its high-profile effort to bring its Flash Player software to smartphones and tablets, Jason Perlow at sister site ZDNet reported today. Such a move would mean Adobe's pragmatism won out over ambition.

Adobe did not immediately respond to a request for comment, but Wednesday morning it confirmed the news in a blog post.

The browser plug-in is widely used on personal computers but only reached a fraction of the mobile phone … Read more

By now it's a familiar pattern: Camera makers release new models that can shoot photos in the high-quality but labor-intensive raw image format, and Adobe Systems periodically catches up with a release to support those proprietary formats.

So it's no surprise to owners of Olympus' E-P3, E-PL3, Panasonic's G3 and GF3, and Sony's Alpha NEX-C3 and SLT-A35 that the release candidate for Lightroom 3.5 adds support for their cameras. The closely related Photoshop Camera Raw plug-in 6.5 release candidate, also issued, follows suit; usually it's a few weeks before the test versions are … Read more

Japan represents Adobe Systems' second-largest country based on revenue, and the company said today that is cutting its second-quarter outlook due to the earthquake, tsunami, and their aftermath.

For the fiscal second quarter, Adobe now projects revenue of $970 million to $1.02 billion. Non-GAAP earnings are expected to be 47 cents a share to 54 cents a share. Wall Street was looking ahead to non-GAAP earnings of 56 cents a share on revenue of $1.03 billion.

Adobe reported earnings for its first quarter, which ended March 4, of $234.6 million, or 46 cents a share, on revenue … Read more

Adobe Systems said today that it recorded its first-ever billion-dollar quarter, beating Wall Street's estimates and forecasting a bullish outlook for its first quarter.

For the fourth quarter, the company reported non-GAAP earnings of 56 cents per share, up from a 6 cents per share loss for the same quarter a year ago. Revenue for the fourth quarter was $1.01 billion, a 33 percent jump over the $757.3 million reported a year ago. (Statement)

Wall Street analysts had been expecting earnings of 52 cents per share on revenue of $988.1 million.

For the fiscal year, the … Read more

Google helped make Adobe Systems' PDF files a first-class citizen on the Web years ago by indexing their content with its search engine. Now it's gone another step by building the ability to read them into its latest browser, Chrome 8, released yesterday for Windows, Mac, and Linux.

That means when people click a PDF link, the document will open directly in the browser. Chrome's built-in PDF reader is also walled up within a sandbox, lowering the risk that security issues will escape a confined region of memory to facilitate a broader attack on a computer.

The PDF … Read more

You can't download Photoshop for your iPad yet, but the technology is getting close enough for Adobe Systems to begin showing what it's got in mind.

Yesterday, John Nack, the Adobe Systems program manager leading the effort, revealed some ideas of how Adobe envisions marrying its flagship image-editing software to tablet computers.

Adobe displayed two broad possibilities in mock-ups and a presentation at the Adobe Max conference: first, a direct editing application for tablets that's operated with a multitouch user interface, and second, a companion application that would let a mobile device augment Photoshop running on an … Read more

Remember the big Apple vs. everyone else video-format war from last spring? When Apple was pushing the HTML5 standard it wanted to use for video on the iPhone and iPad, instead of Adobe Systems' Flash?

No one seems to spend much time talking about it anymore. For good reason: in large part because Steve Jobs insisted on it, "online video" increasingly means "HTML5-compatible." There's not much to debate anymore.

Video search engine MeFeedia, for instance, says that 54 percent of Web video is now compatible with HTML5. That's more than double the tally the … Read more