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Hoping to get a jump on Google and other competitors, Adobe Systems plans to release a hosted version of its popular Photoshop image-editing application within six months, the company's chief executive said.
Photoshop CS remains the choice for professional image editing, and it's worth the upgrade, although some new features could be better implemented.
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