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Adobe has just introduced the final releases of Lightroom 4.4 as well as Camera Raw 7.4, where they are now readily available over as downloads over on Adobe.com. Of course, if for some strange reason or another, you do not want to head in that direction, you can always go through the update mechanism within Photoshop CS6 itself. As expected, every update will come with its fair share of goodies, and this release will offer bug fixes that have been reported by users in previous releases, where among them include a correction to the demosaic algorithms for Fujifilm cameras with the X-Trans sensor, such as the Fujifilm X-Pro1 and X-E1.

Not only that, raw file support has been added for twenty-five cameras, so take a deep breath as you go through the list. They are the Canon EOS 1D C, Canon EOS 100D (Digital Rebel SL1 / EOS Kiss X7), Canon EOS 700D (Digital Rebel T5i / EOS Kiss X7i), Casio Exilim EX-ZR700, Casio Exilim EX-ZR710, Casio Exilim EX-ZR750, Fujifilm FinePix F900EXR, Fujifilm FinePix HS50EXR, Fujifilm FinePix SL1000, Fujifilm X100s, Fujifilm X20, Hasselblad H5D-40, Hasselblad H5D-50, Hasselblad Lunar, LEICA M (Typ 240), Nikon 1 J3, Nikon 1 S1, Nikon D7100, Nikon Coolpix A, Nikon Coolpix P330, Olympus XZ-10, Pentax MX-1, Samsung NX300, Sony Alpha NEX-3N and the Sony Alpha SLT-A58. [Press Release]

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Talk about ants in their pants. After giving regulators the runaround and repeatedly dodging the question of why they charge Australians so much more than Americans for the same products, senior executives from Apple, Microsoft and Adobe have finally been forced to sit down in front from a parliamentary committee. They weren’t always especially helpful, mind you, but they did at least offer some justification as to why, on average, their products cost 50 percent more in that country. Read on for a quick rundown of who said what.

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Adobe announced some great news earlier today, stating that it had made a whopping $1.008 billion in the past 3 months. That earnings figure was about 30% higher than its anticipated $750 million earnings figure. Unfortunately, Adobe followed that good news with some terrible news. It has just announced that its Chief Technology Officer, Kevin Lynch has resigned from the company. The resignation came in the form of a SEC filing.

Adobe states that on March 22nd, Lynch will be leaving the company. It does not plan on assigning someone else to the CTO position, but will instead assign Lynch’s responsibilities to Adobe’s CEO, Shantanu Narayen, and its Senior Vice President, Bryan Lamkin. They will be taking over the technology initiatives, cross company research, and Corporate Development of the company.

So where will Lynch be moving onto? Well according to both CNBC and Adobe, Lynch will be finding a new home in Apple’s headquarters. It’s speculated that Lynch will be taking on a position on Apple’s executive team. Lynch used to do some work on Apple’s Mac software, including development for FrameMaker, as well as his work on General Magic. Lynch, nor Apple, have gone into details yet about what direction Lynch will be taking with the company.

This move will definitely be a difficult change for Adobe. Lynch came to Adobe in 2005 after the company had acquired Macromedia. He oversaw Adobe’s Research and Experience Design teams, and inspired the creation of Macromedia’s Dreamweaver as well as Macromedia’s move onto web publishing. He also guided Adobe’s Digital Marketing and Digital Media business to a vision of shared technology. Both Narayen and Lamkin have big shoes to fill.

[via CNET]

Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch moves onto Apple is written by Brian Sin & originally posted on SlashGear.
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