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Shares of Adobe Systems Inc. rose to a 52-week high Tuesday, after an analyst predicted strong demand for the software maker’s Creative Suite 3, which includes Adobe’s flagship Photoshop and Illustrator graphic design programs.

The San Jose, Calif.-based company’s stock rose $1.08, or 2.6 percent, to $42.39 in morning trading on the Nasdaq after rising as high as $42.75 earlier in the session. The stock hit its previous 52-week high last week, and has traded as low as $25.98 in the last year.

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As noted in DIGIT, Photoshop is once again In the Movies.

“So what’s product placement got to do with Digit? Well, there was one piece of — I’m guessing — unpaid product placement for the software at the core of every creative’s lives: Photoshop.

I’d say it’s unpaid as after one of Bond’s spy chums has framed a policeman with a doctored photo, he pops out the line: “it’s amazing what you can do in Photoshop“.

Now, while it would be wonderful if Adobe did one of those traditional Bond tie-in adverts, with copy reading ‘the next time you need to frame a public official to further your own ends, make sure you turn to Photoshop’, it’s rather implausible.”