Apple is pushing Mac App Store as the delivery mechanism of Mac apps, and major publisher Adobe has made its first offering on the Mac App Store with Adobe Photoshop Elements 9 Editor.

Photoshop Elements 9 Editor is a scaled down version of separately available Photoshop Elements 9 for the Mac. Priced at $79.99, Photoshop Elements 9 Editor drops the Organizer functionality and is $20 cheaper than the full version. Photoshop Elements 9 Editor contains the same editing tools as the full version and is build as a companion to iPhoto.

Adobe Photoshop Elements 9 Editor on Mac App Store

Adobe has released Photoshop Elements 9 and Premiere Elements 9 for both Mac & Windows. Both are popular consumer oriented and more affordable version of Adobe’s photo-editing Adobe Photoshop and video-editing Adobe Premiere. This is the first time Premiere Elements is appearing on the Mac platform.

“For the first time, both Windows and Mac users can do more with their photos and video with Photoshop Elements 9 and Premiere Elements 9 bundle – a unified solution for all photo and video needs,” said Kevin Connor, vice president of product management for Digital Imaging, Adobe. “With industry-leading products like Photoshop and Premiere Pro in the family, Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements are uniquely positioned to leverage the technology the pros use. Our goal is to deliver our customers intelligent and accessible features that do all the heavy lifting, empowering them to easily share high-impact memories with friends and family.”

Photoshop Elements 9 and Premiere Elements 9 is available individual at $99.99 each. Or you can purchase the bundle together at $149.99.

Via Adobe Press Release

Adobe has updated its Photoshop Express iPhone app with a native iPad interface, making this free app a universal binary that runs on both iPhone and iPad.

Photoshop Express is the mobile client for Photoshop.com portal, Adobe’s answer to Flickr. Photoshop.com is heavily Flash based, making Photoshop Express a must have if you are using the image portal.

Adobe Photoshop Express iTunes Link

We bet there are still many Adobe Creative Suite 3 (CS3) users running Mac OS X 10.5. The bad news is Adobe CS3 and earlier version have not been tested to run on Snow Leopard. Adobe is asking CS3 users to upgrade to the latest CS4 (retail at $699.99) if they want to run the new Snow Leopard operating system which Apple is releasing tomorrow.

John Nack, principal product manager for Photoshop at Adobe, wrote on his official Adobe blog announcing the availability of Adobe document on Adobe Creative Suite and Mac OS X Snow Leopard compatibility:

Apple and Adobe have worked closely together (as always with new OS releases) to test compatibility. As for CS4, everything is good with the exception of auto-updates to Flash panels (which I guarantee you’re not using*) and Adobe Drive/Version Cue (which doesn’t work at the moment on 10.6). CS3 & earlier haven’t been tested. Please see the FAQ for additional info.

Adobe CS4 apparently does not require any product upgrade to run on Snow Leopard. But for older version of Adobe Create Suite such as CS3 or Macromedia Studio 8, Adobe has this to say:

Older versions of Adobe creative software were not included in our testing efforts. While older Adobe and Macromedia applications may install and run on Mac OS X Snow Leopard (v10.6), they were designed, tested, and released to the public several years before this new operating system became available. You may therefore experience a variety of installation, stability, and reliability issues for which there is no resolution. Older versions of our creative software will not be updated to support Mac OS X Snow Leopard (v10.6).

Read the Adobe Creative Suite 4 Solutions and Mac OS X Snow Leopard FAQs PDF document for details.

Adobe has released the major upgrade to its Photoshop Lightroom professional digital photography processing and workflow software. Following the module based structure of its predecessor, Lightroom 2′s new enhancements include radical advances in non-destructive localized image correction, streamlined search capabilities, improved Photoshop CS3 integration, 64-bit software for improved memory performance for dealing with large scale images, ability to manage and organize images over multiple hard drives, and dual-monitor support.

Lightroom 2 is the first Adobe application to support 64-bit on Mac OS X. It has been in public beta since April and many of its features are in response to users request.

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