Adobe Illustrator CS2 Upgrade (Mac) [Old Version]

by Adobe

Product Features

• Adobe Illustrator CS2 lets you realize your ideas quickly and powerfully. Instantly convert bitmaps to vector artwork and paint more intuitively. Save time with intelligent palettes and optimized workspaces. Take your graphics to the printed page, Web sites, video, mobile devices, and virtually everywhere you want to go. See for yourself how vector graphics have been reinvented -- and rediscover what you love about illustration.
• Live Trace and Live Paint convert bitmap images into vector paths, while applying color with overlapping paths, instantly detecting and correcting gaps
• Create custom workspaces with the palettes you need for a specific task - Save, share, or access any workspace at any time or use workspace templates
• Expanded stroke options - choose a centered, inside, or outside stroke
• Optimize mobile content creation by saving artwork in any SVG format, including SVG-t

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B00081G47Y
• Item model number: 16001516
• Date first available at Amazon.com: April 4, 2005
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #11,364 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #72 in Software > Business & Office > Document Management > Document Creation
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

From Amazon.com

Adobe Illustrator CS2 is the latest (April 2005) release of Adobe Illustrator, the industry-standard vector graphics software. Illustrator CS2 gives designers new creative freedom so they can realize ideas quickly and powerfully. Users can instantly convert bitmaps to vector artwork with Live Trace, paint intuitively with Live Paint and save time with the new context-sensitive Control Palette and optimized workspaces. Plus, tight integration with other software, both within the new Adobe Creative Suite 2 and with other applications, lets designers produce extraordinary graphics for print, video, the Web, and mobile devices. Note: This is an upgrade. You must have a previous version of Adobe Illustrator to use this product.

What's New with CS2?

	Live Trace Quickly and accurately convert photos, scans, or other bitmap images to editable and scalable vector paths with the Live Trace feature.		Live Paint Apply color to any area of your artwork and use overlapping paths to create new shapes with the Live Paint tool, which intuitively colors artwork and automatically detects and corrects gaps.
	Control Palette Discover new features and find existing features faster in the context-sensitive Control Palette. Accessing selection-based tools from a single location eliminates the need for multiple palettes.		Custom Workspaces Work more efficiently and optimize your screen area using custom workspaces that display only the palettes you need for a specific task. Save, share, or access any workspace at any time or use workspace templates.
	Adobe Photoshop Layer Comp Support Control the visibility of layer comps in linked, embedded, or opened Photoshop files from within Illustrator CS2.		Adobe Bridge Use Adobe Bridge to efficiently browse and preview your creative assets, run automation scripts, access Adobe Stock Photos, and more.
	Mobile Content Creation Optimize rich graphical content for mobile wireless devices by saving artwork in any SVG format, including SVG-t, with improved export options, previewing, and more.		Colorized grayscale Assign a spot color to a linked, embedded, or opened grayscale image, or even apply a spot color to a drop shadow and be confident that artwork will separate properly when printing.

Product Description

Upgrade only; previous installation required Colorized grayscale assigns a spot color to a linked, embedded, or opened grayscale image - for proper color separations when printing Use Adobe Bridge to browse and preview your creative assets, run automation scripts, access Adobe Stock Photos, and more Adobe Photoshop layer comp support - control open Photoshop files within Illustrator CS2 PDF/X support creates reliable, press-ready layouts

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars Adobe Illustrator CS2, June 28, 2008

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Aneesah Mcnamee "aneesah" (Adrian, Michigan) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Adobe Illustrator CS2 Upgrade (Mac) [Old Version] (CD-ROM)

This product is now upgraded to CS3 - and if you have the money i would recommend going for CS3 -
I am a graphic designer and of course use a MAC and all the Adobe products, which are supreme for the field. You can get other illustrator programs - but if you are using Adobe products they now relate to each other easily and it just makes your working a bit less stressful.
i would recommend going with the CS3 - i know that everytime you turn around they are upgrading software - but i think CS3 is sticking around for awhile -

4.0 out of 5 stars Adobe Illustrator for Pros, January 23, 2007

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Paul Gerstenbluth "Reviewer" (East Greenwich, RI USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Adobe Illustrator CS2 Upgrade (Mac) [Old Version] (CD-ROM)

New, more powerful tracing capabilities are now in Adobe Illustrator CS2 software. Illustrator CS2 has the Live Trace feature eliminating the need for the Streamline program. Illustrator CS2's Live Trace offers enhanced tracing quality, function and performance.

What is new in Adobe Illustrator?

+ Adobe Illustrator's auto-trace tool. The new Live Trace features provide auto-tracing in black and white or color.

First, you import a bit-mapped image. Next, click on Illustrator's Live Trace button. You can tweak any number of tracing parameters, and your tracing becomes updated. I then change the tolerance and thresholds, and tracing methods, and save these forms as new tracing presets.

Tracing remains "live". You tell Illustrator to expand the tracing into normal Illustrator paths and fills.

+ How do you use the Live Paint tool? Just like a bitmapped paint program Illustrator will automatically fill the enclosed area with the current color. Live Paint can even fill areas that not completely enclosed. Live Paint has a gap-detector that lets you close paths that have gaps.

+ How do you color grayscale or 1-bit images? Select the bitmap object. Make sure the Fill button in the toolbox or Color palette is selected. Use the Color palette to color the image with black, white, a process color, or a spot color.

+ Adobe Illustrator includes an updated interface and a new workflow for painting objects. It works with colors, patterns, and gradients.

+ Illustrator has grids for laying out artwork. It also has a new tool for adjusting the shapes of paths, and new tools and options for working with vertical text and graphs. You can now use the new time-saving commands, palette features, and keyboard shortcuts. Recently added tool tips and context menus help you quickly identify different interface elements and choose commonly used commands.

Which Bitmap images and Vector graphics should you use in Adobe Illustrator?

Bitmap images are the most common medium for continuous-tone images, such as photographs or digital paintings. They can represent shades and color gradations. Bitmap images are resolution-dependent that contain a fixed number of pixels. They can lose detail and appear jagged when scaled on-screen or when printed at a low resolution.

Vector graphics are resolution-independent. You scaled them to any size and you can print vector graphics at any resolution without losing detail or clarity. Vector graphics are the best choice for representing graphics that must retain crisp lines when scaled to various size and look great for making company logos.

Reactions: Pro

The outstanding feature of Adobe Illustrator CS 2 application is the ability to make Acrobat files. This allows you to combine illustrations and text for both the PC and Mac platforms. You do this by using Adobe Illustrator CS 2 compressed format for quick emailing to your clients.

Adobe Illustrator allows you to create RGB spot colors in your documents. These documents designed for both Web and print output. Illustrator CS 2 also correctly separates these spot colors on their plates when separating out of Illustrator. In addition, you can use these spot colors as RGB spot colors when creating EPS files.

Reactions: Con

Illustrator CS 2 does not have a Place keyboard shortcut key. Instead, you have to go to the Edit pull down menu and create a Place shortcut that is time consuming.

Adobe Illustrator CS 2 system requirements


Final Words

Discover faster, more efficient ways for being creative and productive using Illustrator CS 2 .You will find that Illustrator CS 2 has the new tools you need for designing your illustrations.

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