Adobe releases a herd of Touch Apps in the Android Market

Adobe has opened the product farm gates and let its herd of six Android Touch apps run wild into the Android Market.

Adobe has opened the product farm gates and let its herd of six Android Touch apps run wild into the Android Market.

After a long session in beta, ACD Systems has slammed down the latest version of its popular ACDSee Pro 4 image editing, browsing and organisation software.

It may be a lightweight app, but the Windows-only PhotoEQ application aims to be the app you reach for when you need some quick image editing tasks done.

Daemgen has released ProCamera 3.0 for iOS, an update that adds a slew of new features to their best-selling iPhone photo editing app.

Now acquired by Magix AG, graphics editing package Xara Xtreme has had a major makeover and morphed into ‘Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 6′, while the more upmarket Xara Xtreme Pro has enjoyed a similar update and christened ‘Xara Designer Pro 6′.

Set to inspire wannabe Hitchcock film-makers is YouTube’s natty new cloud-based video editing tools which have just been added to the video sharing site.
There’s a ridiculous amount of photo apps for the iPhone, all offering to improve your photos, add special effects and filters or tinker about with colours, but most people just want better pictures.
The limitations of the iPhone’s camera are pretty well known, and although loads of these third-party apps will help you coax a decent image out, it can be a fiddly business.

We’ve been using the cloud-based Google Docs for some time and have appreciated its ability to let us create, share, and collaborate on documents online.
Google have now announced a series of fairly substantial updates to the service,k including Google Wave-esque, real-time, character-by-character editing for multiple users, as-you-type spell check and a commenting system.

Google has just announced that it has opened up its big bag of money and acquired the cloud-based photo editing service, Picnik.
The website lets you crop, touch-up and add various effects to your photos from within your web browser.

Berlin-based Savoy Software have developed Liquid Scale, a ‘content aware image resizing’ app for the iPhone.
According to its makers, Liquid Scale resizes pictures while “magically keeping the important features of the image intact,” and can, “intelligently remove or add pixels to preserve important parts of the picture.”

If your wallet won’t stretch to the outlandish sums demanded for top-line image editors like Photoshop, or your editing needs are more basic, it might be worth taking a peek at the lightweight StylePix editor.
Small enough to slap on a netbook or thumb drive, StylePix image packs a fair bit of image-editing power or most everyday tasks and comes with a price that’s sure to please: free. Oh, yes!

If you’re not mindful of re-mortgaging your house to get the latest copy of Adobe Photoshop, then the freebie Paint.Net application may be worth taking a look at.
The Windows-only image editor has recently been updated and now packs even more features, with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of handy tools for editing and tweaking your work.
The Apple iPhone 3GS already offers some fairly basic video trimming tools, but Nexvio’s iPhone editing app looks a far slicker proposition.
The $8 app lets users add titles and video effects, fades and transitions (we’re rather intrigued by ‘the ‘wipe bottom soft’ option), re-order clips and finally stitch stills and movies together to create your very own showreel, ready to be viewed onscreen or shovelled on to YouTube.
Adobe has thrown a few levers, set the fork lifts rolling and sent version 8 of its popular Photoshop Elements image-editing software on its journey into willing consumers’ paws.

Available on PC and Mac with an interface resplendent in de rigueur dark hues, blacks and muted greys, the latest update adds ‘Adobe Photomerge’ Exposure, Recompose and Quick Fix previews, with automated analysis tools on hand to identify your chums in photos and video clips, and add name tags accordingly.
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