Photographer Joe Patronite has bagged shot after spectacular shot of the cycling star in victory after victory

By Doug Kreutz, ARIZONA DAILY STAR

Joe Patronite has the drill down pat: Fly to France and train a lens on a legend named Lance.

His photos of cycling superstar Lance Armstrong - churning to victory after victory in the Tour de France - have won lavish display in magazines such as Sports Illustrated and Outside. They’ve also been used in advertising for Trek bicycles, Subaru cars and other products.

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By BRIAN BERGSTEIN, AP Technology Writer

Charlie Morgan says that if it weren’t for digital photography, he wouldn’t have a bustling business that specializes in publicity shots for musicians. That’s because Morgan - perhaps being a bit modest - says he’s not a very good photographer. He relies on Photoshop editing software to make his work look sharp.

But digital sometimes presents a puzzling problem.

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By MATTHEW FORDAHL, AP Technology Writer

SAN JOSE, Calif. - By acquiring rival software maker Macromedia Inc. in a deal originally valued at $3.4 billion, Adobe Systems Inc. is positioning itself to do battle with Microsoft Corp. over the tools to create, distribute and manage content online.

The deal, announced Monday, would put Adobe’s ubiquitous Acrobat document-sharing program under the same roof as Macromedia’s Flash software for creating and viewing interactive content on Web sites independent of operating systems or devices.

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By BEN DOBBIN, AP Business Writer

ROCHESTER, N.Y. - Jesse Eisenberg came within a technological whisker of losing all her honeymoon snapshots. The 31-year-old lawyer’s digital images, stored on an online photography site, vanished while she was in the hospital this winter having her first child. She had given up all hope of retrieving them when they suddenly reappeared on her computer more than a month later.

“I can’t believe we got them back!” she exclaimed. “Oh my God, I’m going to be printing all day today.”

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Picasa 2 Offers Editing Tools, Advanced Effects, Better Organization and CD Burning for Digital Photo Users - For Free

Mountain View, Calif. (January 18, 2005) - Google Inc. today released Picasa™ 2, free photo management software that makes it simpler than ever for people to organize, edit and share their digital pictures.

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