Adobe has delayed by a few weeks the release of some upgrades to its Photoshop.com online service and to its high-end Photoshop Creative Suite 4 software.
The upcoming Photoshop site upgrades include features to import address-book entries from Hotmail, Yahoo Mail and Gmail to improve photo-sharing; an uploading tool to synchronise software on a user's PC with the version stored online; and new pricing options.
The upgrades had been due on Tuesday but now will go live "later this month", Adobe said in a statement on Monday night.
Also delayed is the Photoshop Creative Suite 4 (CS4) Configurator, a tool to let users create customised control panels for the image-editing software.
Configurator had been due in October but, together another new CS4 option — the Pixel Bender filter gallery — won't debut until later in November, John Nack, senior product manager for Photoshop, said in a blog post.
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Pixel Bender is a technology enabling high-performance special effects that Adobe hopes will be easier to use than earlier plug-in filter technology.
"We decided to give both tools a little extra bake time, so look for them to appear on Adobe Labs within the next two weeks," Nack said. "Also stay tuned for a Camera Raw update for CS4 that'll include a number of nice little surprises."
