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SAN JOSE, Calif — Dec 17, `07 — Adobe Systems today reported financial results for its fourth quarter and fiscal year ended Nov 30, `07.

In the fourth quarter of fiscal 2007, Adobe achieved record revenue of $911.2 million, compared to $682.2 million reported for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2006 and $851.7 million reported in the third quarter of fiscal 2007. This represents 34 percent year-over-year revenue growth. Adobe’s fourth quarter revenue target range was $860 to $890 million.

Adobe benefited from global demand for Creative Suite 3, which includes software for editing photos, designing Web sites and creating video. Chief Executive Officer Shantanu Narayen, who took over from Bruce Chizen this month, predicted first- quarter earnings that topped estimates, and reaffirmed a forecast for 13 percent sales growth in 2008.

Adobe Reports Record Annual Revenue in Fiscal Year 2007
In fiscal year 2007, Adobe achieved record revenue of $3.158 billion, compared to $2.575 billion in fiscal 2006. On a year-over-year basis, annual revenue grew 23 percent. More at Adobe.

SAN FRANCISCO & SEATTLE –BUSINESS WIRE– — Dec 04, ‘07 — Flickr, one of the world’s leading online photo-sharing communities, today announced a partnership with Picnik, a ground breaking online photo-editing application, to fully-integrate Picnik’s comprehensive photo-editing tools within Flickr.

Flickr members worldwide will now have access to Picnik’s extensive editing features such as resize, crop, change exposure, and red-eye removal, along with Picnik’s special effects such as color boost, black and white, sepia, frames, shapes, text and soften, all within the Flickr site.

Picnik editing tools are now available on the Edit Photo tab within Flickr for editing individual photos or a batch of photos. After transforming their photos, members can add the edited photos to their Flickr account or, if they are a Flickr Pro member, overwrite the original.

Additionally, Flickr Pro members will benefit from Picnik’s “Perfect Memory” feature which allows you to undo or redo any edit or special effect all the way back to the original version of the picture.

The new Picnik editing tools will be available to Flickr members in eight languages including: English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Korean and traditional Chinese. More at Yahoo!

Austin, TX–(BUSINESS WIRE)–October 27, ‘07–Call it Cleavage-gate. When photos of Hillary Clinton’s cleavage peeking out of a revealing V-neck made the news, there’s no doubt she would have liked a do-over.

Fortunately, that image do-over can now be achieved-after the fact. Whether retouching Hillary’s cleavage, Fred Thompson’s facial creases, or the dark circles under Giuliani’s eyes, the ability to go back and improve an image is now available to candidates for president and candidates for Mom of the Year alike.

Hillary’s birthday is this weekend, and what woman entering her sixties wouldn’t want to appear a bit more youthful, a little more rested? Fotofix.com, a new online photo enhancement service, gave a little help to Hillary, and is now bringing professionally styled photos to the people, so that anyone can visually correct unsightly scars, deep wrinkles, uneven skin tone or red eye.

The process has about a 24-hour turnaround-with customers posting photos directly to the site or sending them via email or a cell phone. The photos are then altered at low or no cost to the consumer.

Harnessing the talents of a team of professional photographers and artists, Fotofix.com can glamorize an online profile image, improve a dating picture or even remove an old girlfriend from the frame-something the other Clinton could have certainly employed during his presidency.

Fotofix.com can’t guarantee it will increase votes, but it can guarantee an improved, more polished image-something the candidates, no matter their political persuasion, can all support. Fotofix.com was launched on Friday, Oct 26, ‘07.

The secret of celebrity beauty is now available to you! Everyone wants to look beautiful. Fotofix can help! Says Fotofix.com

AUSTIN, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE)–October 26, ‘07–Fotofix.com is a new online photo enhancement service giving the general public the ability to upload snapshots and, after a brief wait, receive retouched, magazine-quality photos.

Now anyone can enjoy the celebrity treatment, partaking of the alteration top models and stars take advantage of to improve and enhance their images. Fotofix.com provides high-quality digital enhancements like skin smoothing, complexion evening, body slimming, and tooth whitening.

Fotofix.com showcases an individual’s natural style and features to best advantage using the latest airbrush and retouching techniques. Colors become more vibrant and photo imperfections disappear. Best of all, it’s affordable.

A team of professionally trained photographers and artists work on the photos, ensuring the best quality available in online photo touch-ups. Fotofix.com gives people the power to envision themselves with different hair or eye colors, relocated to new backgrounds or to have poor photo color rebalanced.

The process has a 24-hour turnaround — with customers posting photos directly to the site or sending them via email or a cell phone. The photos are then altered at low or no cost to the consumer.