News from Adobe

Adobe Photoshop Express public beta

Today announced Adobe Photoshop Express public beta, a free Rich Internet Application (RIA) available to anyone who wants to store, sort and show off digital photos with eye-catching effects. During the public beta period, Adobe will solicit Photoshop Express user feedback on product features and functionality, which will continue to evolve over time. As the newest addition to the Photoshop family line, Photoshop Express has taken much of Adobe's best image editing technology and made it simple and accessible to a new online audience. Photoshop Express allows users to store up to 2 gigabytes of images online for free, make
edits to their photos, and share them online in creative ways, including downloading and uploading photos from popular social networking sites like Facebook.

For the full press release please see:

http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressreleases/200803/032708Pho
toshopExpress.html

Adobe® Director 11

Flex 3 is a feature-packed release, adding new UI components like the advanced datagrid and improved CSS capabilities; powerful tooling additions like refactoring; and extensive testing tools including memory and performance profiling, plus the addition of the automated testing framework to Flex Builder.

Adobe AIR 1.1

Adobe AIR 1.1is game-changing in so many ways, extending rich applications to the desktop, enabling access to the local file system, system tray, notifications and much more. Now you can write desktop applications using the same skills that you've been already using to create great web apps including both Flex and AJAX.

Adobe® Director 11

Explore new dimensions in rich multimedia authoring Adobe® Director® 11 and Adobe Shockwave® Player software help you create and publish compelling interactive games, demos, prototypes, simulations, and eLearning courses for the web, Mac and Windows® desktops, DVDs, and CDs. Integrate virtually any major file format, including video created with Adobe Flash® software and native 3D content, for the greatest return on your creativity.

Adobe® Captivate® 3

Adobe® Captivate® 3 software enables anyone to rapidly create powerful and engaging simulations, scenario-based training, and robust quizzes without programming knowledge or multimedia skills.

Screen recording and demos
Capture and record screen activity and effortlessly synchronize audio and video.

Software simulations
Develop and deploy engaging computer simulations and skill assessments.

Scenario-based training
Rapidly develop soft-skills training with complex branching scenarios.

Presentations
Design engaging, interactive Adobe Flash® and multimedia presentations online.

Quizzes
Create and deploy interactive tutorials and randomized quizzes with randomized answer options.

Podcasts
Create informal learning content such

Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom 2™

New Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom 2™ software is the professional photographer's essential toolbox, providing one easy application for managing, adjusting, and presenting large volumes of digital photographs so you can spend less time in front of the computer and more time behind the lens.Enjoy robust support for more than 150 camera raw formats, and experiment with confidence. Adjustments you make to images in Lightroom won't alter the original data, whether you're working on a JPEG, TIFF, DNG, or camera raw file.
Ease the learning curve and be productive quickly. Task-oriented modules whisk you through typical workflow tasks by putting just the tools you need at your fingertips.
Fine-tune your photographs with precise, easy-to-use tools for globally correcting white balance, exposure, tone curves, lens distortion, and color casts

Adobe® Acrobat® 9 Professional

Communicate and collaborate with the essential PDF solution. Adobe® Acrobat® 9 Professional software enables business professionals to reliably create, combine, and control Adobe PDF documents for easy, more secure distribution, collaboration, and data collection
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Create
Easily create Adobe PDF documents from Microsoft Office, Outlook, Internet Explorer, Project, Visio, Access, Publisher, AutoCAD®, Lotus Notes, or any application that prints.

Combine
Combine documents, drawings, and rich media content into a single, polished Adobe PDF document. Optimize file size, and arrange files in any order regardless of file type, dimensions, or orientation.

Collaborate
Enable users of Adobe Reader® software (version 7.0 or 8) to participate in shared reviews.Use the Start Meeting button to collaborate in real-time with the new Adobe Acrobat Connect line of products.

Collect
Easily collect and distribute forms, combine collected forms into a searchable, sortable PDF package, and export collected data into a spreadsheet. (Windows® only)

Control
Control access to and use of Adobe PDF documents, assign digital rights, and maintain document integrity.

New features in Acrobat 8 Professional
Combine multiple files into a PDF package
Combine multiple files into a searchable, sortable PDF package that maintains the individual security settings and digital signatures of each included PDF document.

Auto-recognize form fields
Automatically locate form fields in static PDF documents and convert them to interactive fields that can be filled electronically by anyone using Adobe Reader software*. (Windows® only)

Manage shared reviews
Easily conduct shared reviews—without IT assistance—that allow review participants to see one another's comments and track the status of the review.

Enable advanced features in Adobe Reader
Enable anyone using free Adobe Reader software* to participate in document reviews, fill and save electronic forms offline†, and digitally sign documents.

Permanently remove sensitive information
Permanently remove metadata, hidden layers, and other concealed information, and use redaction tools to permanently delete sensitive text, illustrations, or other content.

Archive Microsoft Outlook e-mail in PDF
Configure Acrobat 8 Professional to automatically archive e-mail in Microsoft Outlook for easy search and retrieval. (Windows only)

Archive Lotus Notes e-mail
Convert e-mail in Lotus Notes to Adobe PDF to facilitate searching, archiving, and retrieval. (Windows only)

Save in Microsoft Word
Take advantage of improved functionality for saving Adobe PDF files as Microsoft Word documents, retaining the layout, fonts, formatting, and tables.

Enjoy improved performance and support for AutoCAD
More rapidly convert AutoCAD® drawing files into compact, accurate PDF documents, without the need for the native desktop application.

Take advantage of a new, intuitive user interface
Complete tasks more quickly with a streamlined user interface, new customizable toolbars, and a "Getting Started" page to visually direct you to commonly used features.

Acrobat Connect

Free web conferencing for Communicate and collaborate in real time with online personal meeting rooms and interactive web conferencing. Screenshare any desktop application or file.

Adobe® Acrobat® 3D

Publish, share, review, and mark up 3D designs in Intelligent Documents. Adobe® Acrobat® 3D software enriches collaboration by enabling extended teams to use Adobe PDF documents to more securely and reliably communicate 3D design intent. Insert and publish 3D designs from major CAD applications in Adobe PDF documents that can easily be shared with suppliers, partners, and customers using free Adobe Reader® 7.0 software.

Acrobat Standard

Combine and arrange documents
Combine documents, drawings, and rich media content into a single, polished Adobe PDF document. Arrange files in any order regardless of file type, dimensions, or orientation.

Manage shared reviews
Easily conduct shared reviews—without IT assistance—that allow review participants to see each other's comments and track the status of the review.

Use familiar review and commenting tools
Use familiar commenting tools including a highlighter, sticky notes, pencil, strikethrough, and more. Also attach files from other applications inline as comments.

Track reviews and manage comments
Track which reviewers have contributed feedback. Compile comments into a single PDF document with one-button ease and sort them by author, date, or page.

Save in Microsoft Word
Save Adobe PDF files as Microsoft Word documents, retaining the layout, fonts, formatting, and tables, to facilitate reuse of content.

Archive papers and e-mails for easy search and retrieval
Scan paper documents with OCR technology to create compact, searchable Adobe PDF documents. Convert Microsoft Outlook and Lotus Notes e-mail archives to Adobe PDF to facilitate search and retrieval.

Capture web pages
Convert web pages to Adobe PDF documents to easily print, archive, mark-up, or share.

Unify with headers, footers, and watermarks
Automatically remove headers and footers from source files and add unifying headers, footers, or watermarks to your combined Adobe PDF document.

Sign documents digitally
Apply digital signatures to authenticate documents, manage their status, and help prevent modification.

Create security policies
Create customized combinations of passwords and permissions and save them as security policies that can be easily applied to new Adobe PDF documents.

Create in PDF/A for archiving
Create documents in PDF/A, the ISO standard for long-term archiving of electronic documents.

Acrobat Elements

Create Adobe PDF documents
Create Adobe PDF documents with drag-and-drop or one-button ease from Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

Print to Adobe PDF
Create Adobe PDF documents from any application that prints by simply selecting Adobe PDF from within the print menu.

Create accessible Adobe PDF documents
Create a tagged Adobe PDF document that helps meet U.S. government accessibility standards (Section 508) by adding tags to the PDF file or converting a Microsoft Office document with accessibility features enabled.

Use a de facto standard
Produce Adobe PDF files that can be viewed with widely available Adobe Reader® software; more than 500 million copies of Adobe Reader have been distributed worldwide.

Distribute files electronically
E-mail compact Adobe PDF documents to colleagues, clients, and vendors to accelerate distribution and help save time and money on printing and delivery fees.

View and print reliably
Preserve the original format and layout of business documents so they display and print correctly on a variety of platforms.

Protect files
Apply permissions that help control whether users are allowed to view, edit, comment on, sign, or print Adobe PDF documents.

Help restrict access
Protect files with passwords to help prevent unauthorized opening and viewing of sensitive documents.

Streamline installation
Efficiently deploy, maintain, and support Acrobat Elements throughout your organization with easy-to-use Adobe tools and resources.