Photoshop is one of Adobe's best-known software products

Adobe has seen sales increase since April thanks to new products and upgrades of its best-known software.

Net income for the three months to December was $222.2m (£110m) against $183.2m a year ago.

The maker of Acrobat, Photoshop, Flash and Illustrator software left its earnings outlook for 2008 unchanged.

Revenue in the quarter grew 34% to $911m, helped by strong sales of software for photographic editing and for building online sites.

'Solid' results

New products over the summer have included Visual Communicator 3 software, launched in June, which creates video broadcasts.

"The results look solid," said Steve Ashley, an analyst at Robert Baird.

Adobe forecast first-quarter revenues of $855m-$885m, down from the recently completed quarter.

In October, Adobe said it was to enter the word processing market by acquiring Virtual Ubiquity.