photoshop

Indian American Shantanu Narayen has been appointed president and CEO of Adobe Systems Incorporated from Dec 1.

He is to also to join the board of directors of the software company known for popular products such as Photoshop, Pagemaker and Acrobat Reader.

The Hyderabad-born, Osmania University graduate in electronics engineering is currently president and COO of the San Jose, California based company.

A new website provides an innovative tool that expands and contracts images while minimizing distortion.

These are boom days for online photo-editing sites. Most people have Internet connections that let them upload pictures relatively quickly, and Flash, the programming language on which many of the editing applications run, has advanced to the point that developers can use it to implement tricks previously found only in the pricey photo-editing software Photoshop.

Adobe Systems Inc's Photoshop, Illustrator and other Creative Suite 3 programs have not been fully tested with the latest version of Apple's operating system due for release next month, which could lead to incompatibility issues.

A substantial proportion of Adobe users are also Apple Mac users, with many waiting for the new Mac OS X operating system, code-named "Leopard."

"CS3 hasn't fully been tested under Leopard," Adobe Chief Executive Bruce Chizen said. "If it doesn't work, we will make the necessary adjustments."

He said Adobe had not received a final copy of Leopard with which the software could be tested.

"What I think Chizen is saying is that they want more time than what Apple is giving them to make sure everything works," said Chris Swenson, an analyst with market research firm NPD. "They just don't want any hiccups that could hurt sales," he added.

However, no comments have been received from Apple officials.

Apple has said it will introduce the highly anticipated new operating system in October. The release was delayed so Apple could deploy engineers to work on software for the iPhone.

It may be recalled that Microsoft's Vista operating system, which went on sale in November of last year, also has had some incompatibility issues with other types of software.