Customer Reviews

Adobe Creative Suite Premium CS2 Upgrade (Mac) [Old Version]

5 star:		(3)
4 star:		(3)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

This is the best "upgrade" yet! If you're considering dropping Quark for InDesign, do it! Everything in the suite works seamlessly. InDesign is so far above Quark in every feature that it makes no sense not to go ahead and make the leap. Lots of your favorite features from Photoshop and Illustrator are integrated into InDesign--like layers, transparency, and the ability to import native files. I'm very happy I made this purchase and I recommend it to everyone!

With all due respect to the guy from Japan, I use CS2 about 30 hours a week. I've had InDesign crash twice and both times it recovered my work flawlessly up to the minute of the crash. While I'll agree that the suite is getting a little bulky for older machines, my year-old machine has absolutely no problems running Illustrator, InDesign, Acrobat, and Photoshop simultaneously.

Having moved to CS2 from Quark and a hodgepodge of other other applications (Freehand, Photoshop, Acrobat), I can honestly say that the seamless integration of CS2 is a thing of beauty. You can go from one app to another effortlessly and the built in PDF support makes CS2 essential to my job.

VersionCue, I don't like. I don't use it and it still hogs memory. That's why I'm giving it 4 stars and not 5.

If you are planning on upgrading from CS I would definitely recommend this product. If you haven't used live trace in Illustrator CS2 you will be amazed! Very quick and easy installation on my Power Mac G5.

This suite is amazing in how much you can accomplish with it, even when you're not a graphics designer of webdeveloper.

The learning curve is somewhat steep, but is pays of to persist. I have developed several sites that look great and are of professional quality.

GoLive is still somewhat buggy, but this may be memory related (currently I work with 1gig)

Good creative software. There seems to be some unstability (minor). I'm sure Adobe is working on the patches.

The differences between CS1 and CS2 appear to subtile for the most part. Adobe Bridge is one of the differences that stand out, and enhances all CS applications the way the file browser did for Photoshop.

I am concerned that the packaging was nearly destroyed when CS2 arrived. Anyone could have looked in and nabbed it during the shipping process. I'm relieved the software arrived, but I wonder from time to time what would have happened if it hadn't.

I rely on InDesign for publishing and photoshop for digital manipulations. The core products are rock solid. I haven't found a use for a lot of the other items, Adobe Bridge, and Go Live is a waste of time, though it is now being subbed with Dreamweaver in the other upgrades.

If I had $1 for every time a CS2 app crashed and made expend real hours to redo work, I'd have about $10. And that's enough for me to say, BEWARE of this set of applications! Adobe has allowed them to get too bloated, too slow, and the results are that all the programs (but principally GoLive, InDesign and Illustrator, in that order) are crashy and will quite suddenly, forcing you to expend the precious hours of your life redoing work you just finished. I cannot stress how disappointed I am in Adobe, and how distraught I am that we as a nation have allowed the only two competing companies to join, thus guaranteeing that there will be less quality and innovation in the future. In any event, do not buy the CS2 apps, Adobe does not deserve your support!