Adobe CFO Hopes Photoshop 7 Will Lure Pro Photographers, Touts "Runs On Mac OS X"

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Dow Jones has published a short mention from Adobeis CFO that includes a favorable reference to Mac OS X. Murray Demo, Adobeis CFO, says that Adobe thinks that Photoshop 7 might attract professional photographers (i.e. film-based photographers) to computers. Mr. Demo also touted the fact that Photoshop 7 runs on Mac OS X as reasons to expect follow-on sales of other Adobe products such as Illustrator. The short piece from Dow Jones:

Adobe Systems Inc. hopes to attractive [sic] professional photographers to its new Photoshop 7 now that the quality of digital cameras is fast approaching that of traditional film cameras, said Murray Demo, chief financial officer.

Speaking at the JP Morgan H&Q technology conference, Demo said Photoshop 7, released last month, has features to attract professionals. It also is written to run on Apple Computer Inc.is Mac OS X operating-system software, which should help trigger follow-on sales of other Adobe products, such as Illustrator, he said.

You can find the original report at Yahoo!is financial Web site.

Bryan Chaffin

Bryan Chaffin

Bryan is the cofounder of The Mac Observer and currently serves as Afternoon Editor. He has contributed to MacAddict and MacFormat magazines, and coauthored Incredible iPad Apps for Dummies with Bob "Dr. Mac" LeVitus.

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