Adobe Photoshop CS2 (Mac) [OLD VERSION]

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Product Features

• Revolutionary Vanishing Point technology lets you clone, paint, and paste elements that automatically match the perspective of the surrounding image area
• Smart Objects perform nondestructive scaling, rotating, and warping of raster and vector graphics with Smart Objects
• Multi-image digital camera raw file processing - process multiple images simultaneously, adjusting exposure, shadows, and brightness and contrast -- all while you continue working
• Image Warp creates packaging mock-ups by wrapping an image around any shape or stretching, curling, and bending an image
• Multiple layer control for selecting, moving, grouping and transforming objects intuitievly

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 2.2 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: B00081I6JI
• Item model number: 13102124
• Date first available at Amazon.com: April 4, 2005
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #972 in Software (See Bestsellers in Software)

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It's hard to imagine that Adobe can make Photoshop any better than this. Long considered the professional image-editing standard among graphic digital artists worldwide, Photoshop is certain to cement that reputation even further with the array of new features offered in Adobe PhotoShop CS2 for the Macintosh. Artists, creative professionals, photographers, and industry professionals will find that the work flow and image customization enhancements will be worth far more than the price of the upgrade.

Achieve amazing results in a fraction of the time with the groundbreaking Vanishing Point tool, which lets you clone, paint, and paste elements that automatically match the perspective of the surrounding image area.

Adobe Bridge (formerly File Browser)
Adobe Bridge software is the new-generation File Browser--Photoshop's navigational control center that allows you to browse, organize, label, and preview graphics and Photoshop files quickly and efficiently. Adobe Bridge takes File Browser, introduced in Photoshop 7.0, a step further by providing centralized access to your suite project files, applications, and settings. With Adobe Bridge, you can process multiple camera raw images at once; resize, rate and label thumbnails; review images in slide show mode; and more. With file organization and sharing, plus Adobe Stock Photos at your fingertips all the time, you simply search for the files you want to place using metadata--such as key words, colors or image resolution--and seamlessly drag and drop your files into Photoshop. You can even page through an entire Adobe PDF file right in the preview panel of Adobe Bridge. And with Adobe Bridge, you can also browse, search and purchase royalty-free images from leading stock photo agencies without ever leaving InDesign CS2. It's as simple as that.

Revolutionary Vanishing Point and Image Warp
Photographers especially will be amazed at the effects that Vanishing Point can bring to a project. Clone, paint, and paste elements that automatically match the perspective of the surrounding image area in a fraction of the time that it currently takes. With Image Warp, you can easily create packaging mockups or other dimensional effects by wrapping an image around any shape. Place your client's logo around a coffee cup, or stretch, curl or bend an image across the hood of a car or around the Space Shuttle, for that matter. The effects you can create with Image Warp will be limited only by your imagination.

Accelerate your raw file workflow with simultaneous processing of multiple images while you continue working.

Digital Camera Raw File Support
Accelerate your raw file workflow with simultaneous processing of multiple images while you continue working. With Photoshop CS2, you can import images into your choice of formats, including Digital Negative (DNG); enjoy automatic adjustments to exposure, shadows, and brightness and contrast; and much more. This exciting new enhancement provides fast and easy access within Photoshop software to the "raw" image formats produced by many leading professional and midrange digital cameras. The Photoshop Camera Raw plug-in--now available as part of Photoshop CS2--has been updated to support more cameras and include more features.

Spot Healing Brush and One-Click Red-Eye Correction
Never have touch ups been so easy. With the Spot Healing Brush, you can effortlessly retouch photos--including 16-bit images--in a single click. Red-eye Correction lets you instantly neutralize red eyes and also lets you set pupil size and darkening level.

Effective red-eye reduction is only a few clicks away.

Use the new multi-layer select feature to more intuitively edit and control your work.

Other New Features
Photoshop CS2 offers a huge array of exciting new features designed to help artists and creative professionals in all fields stretch their imagination and increase their work and creative efficiencies:

• Smart Objects: Perform nondestructive scaling, rotating, and warping of raster and vector graphics with Smart Objects. Even preserve the editability of high-resolution vector data from Adobe Illustrator software.
• Multiple Layer Control: Select and move, group, transform, and warp objects more intuitively by clicking and dragging directly on the canvas. Easily align objects with Smart Guides.
• Nondestructive Image Correction: Improve the color, contrast, and dynamic range of any image using a comprehensive set of professional correction tools and nondestructive adjustment layers, which display corrections while preserving the original.
• Full 16-bit and New 32-bit Image Support: Work with absolute precision thanks to support for 16-bit images in all channels and layers. Create and edit 32-bit images, and take advantage of High Dynamic Range, 32-bit support.
• Advanced Noise Reduction: Reduce noise and remove JPEG artifacts for cleaner images.
• Customizable Workspaces and Menus: Get easier access to the tools you need with task-based presets, highlight new or commonly used menu items, and even set up and save custom menus and workspaces.
• Web Animations: Quickly create dynamic GIF animations directly within Photoshop CS2 by taking advantage of the new Animations palette and layer palette animation options.

Product Description

Adobe Photoshop CS2 software, the professional image-editing standard and leader of the Photoshop digital imaging line, delivers more of what you crave. Groundbreaking technology helps you create and enhance images with extraordinary results. Unprecedented adaptability lets you custom-fit Photoshop to the way you work. And with exceptionally smooth editing, processing, and file handling, there’s no slowing you down. Bring your images to life with Photoshop CS2.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A gem that can be enhanced and polished, July 28, 2005

By	Nicolas S. Martin (Indianapolis, IN United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Photoshop is one of the great software products ever created. It has continued to evolve to match the needs of advanced digital photography, offering some really astonishing capabilities -- assuming that you have the time and necessary instructional materials. It has a steep learning curve.

Where Photoshop falls short is in ease of use. Along with features development, Adobe should focus on making the application simpler where possible. Even advanced users can benefit from simplicity. For instance, it could be much easier to crop photos to the conventional 3-to-2 proportion for printing and commercial processing. Adobe could adopt the kiosk method of visual cropping using a moveable box without eliminating the existing approach. It is especially bothersome to work a non-standard image into the 3-2 format, and many commercial processors automatically (and crudely) crop irregularly sized photos instead of fitting them entirely withing he selected print size. Adobe needs to acknowledge the reality of every day use, and offer a simplified solution. The company is a bit slow in this department, as evidenced by how long it took to create a relatively automated way to correct red eye.

There is always a group of users who defend software difficulty of use as they either profit from the time consumption (hourly billing), or it makes makes them feel important to gain mastery over something difficult. Adobe should ignore this minority and make Photoshop easier.

One nit that I pick with recent versions is that they have made the blur tool more clumsy. A high-pixel file need be viewed at 100 percent, or it is virtually impossible to see the effect of blurring. That wasn't necessary in the past, and it shouldn't be now.

Photoshop is a gem that Adobe can continue to polish and enhance.

Update Oct 06: Due to persistent screen redraw problems using Photoshop. Thus I have run into Adobe's unbelievably awful file-by-file "uninstall" process for CS2. It is the worst I've encountered for any OSX application and I would bring this down to three stars if it were possible. Adobe should be ashamed.

52 of 67 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A horrible update from CS., July 20, 2005

By	Nathan Thrower (Philadelphia, PA) - See all my reviews

Adobe Photoshop CS2 is a horrible update from the previous CS. As a photographer, I updated when I bought the new Canon Rebel XT because Adobe refuses to release a plugin for the XT's RAW format for CS. This is obviously an attempt to strongarm users into buying more software when it is not necessary.

CS2 has several new "innovations," which are slow, buggy, and a hindrance. The most notable of these is Adobe Bridge. An "update" from File Browser, it is an entirely separate application that's supposed to inhance management of your photo archives. In practice it is slow, uncomfortable, and not practical in any way. It does display RAW file information, but this is the only immediate plus I could find.

In compatibility with RAW files, CS2 refuses to save them after initial processing into a convenient format such as JPEG or BMP. Instead, it opts to save as a PSD, TIF, or Photoshop RAW. None of these are convenient, and I found myself constantly opening the images in Preview and converting them to a more accessible format.

CS2's most significant drawback was astounding: combined with Adobe Bridge (which is required to be open to browse photos within PS), CS2 uses a whopping 1.5 gigs of swap space on my system partition, and only for simple photo modifications. This is an absurd mismanagement of memory allocation, and a problem I never found I had with CS.

Overall, CS2 is a terrible upgrade from CS. Adobe is turning the way of Microsoft in releasing slow, buggy, and unreliable software consistantly, instead of taking the time to make a better product. Their refusal to release an XT CR2 plugin is even more proof of this. I decided it is more convenient to use the Canon Digital Photo Professional program that came with the XT to modify RAW files, and then open those saved as a high-res BMP into CS1, then to use CS2 at all. My advice is to not upgrade unless utterly necessary. Don't support Adobe's pathetic upgrade habits unless they choose to release quality products.

12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best photo editing software in the industry is now even better, December 10, 2005

By	D-MAG.org Reviewer (Lexington, KY USA) - See all my reviews

If you're like me, you've probably been using Photoshop for years. It seems that Adobe has done it again and made the best photo editing software in the industry even better. Adobe has done their homework and listened to the users. They have made Photoshop more powerful by tweaking some existing features and developed new features as well.

For example, the browser used to be a little tedious to use when reviewing photos or PSD files. Now, in Photoshop CS2, Adobe has no only upgraded this feature, but now it is it's own standalone program called Adobe Bridge.

Adobe Bridge has several advantages over the old browser. You can preview many different types of files in Bridge simultaneously such as Illustrator, InDesign, Quicktime movies, PDFs and all of the standard previous image formats (jpg, gif, raw, etc.). An added feature is since Bridge is a stand alone program, you can work with RAW images and manage them without even opening Photoshop, thus freeing up some memory (RAM).

In the new program, you can easily scale the thumbnails you are viewing to fit the Bridge screen. This allows to you see as much of the thumbnail as you need to. This is a great feature especially when you are browsing several images that are similar. You can increase the scale of the thumbnails to better see the differences. You can also choose from a few different types of workspaces (filmstrip, thumbnails, details and variations). This is similar to viewing the files in MS Windows folder view, only better.

In Photoshop CS2 itself, there are some great new features. Here's a few:
* Enhanced Layers palette - This feature has been improved to allow users to select and work with multiple layers. You can select (without linking) and transform multiple layers all at once. Linking is still an available feature when you need it. The Layers palette also provides access to Photoshop's new Smart Objects feature. Smart Objects can be imported vector art or any group of vector or raster layers you've already created. The nice thing about smart objects are that they are non-destructive to the original image.
* Smart Guides - This is one of the almost invisible new features. Smart Guides appear when you are dragging layers. As one layer approaches another, the guides appear to assist you in positioning the layers correctly near or around one another.
* Vanishing Point - Previously, it was always a little challenging when trying to warp text onto another layer. For instance, warping text onto a wall, cup, etc. Vanishing Point allows you to warp text across 3D planes. You can also clone, paint and move the objects on the planes. It is much easier than the previous method of warping, and the end result looks much more natural.
* Image Warping - Along with Vanishing Point, you can now use the Image Warping feature to warp images. This works with Vanishing Point to allow the user to warp images as easily as warping text. This is great for creating perspectives by warping photos, logos and even imported vector graphics onto almost any surface.
* New Font Preview - This is one thing we have all been asking for. You can now get a WYSIWYG view of the fonts when you select them from the font dropdown menu. You can even change the size of the preview and turn it on or off.
* Smart Sharpen - For photo correction, the new Smart Sharpen feature is available. This feature allows you to sharp like some of the existing filters. However, it goes a step future and allows you to correct the image without increasing the noise in the shadows. Users can also directly control the sharpening effects in both the shadow and highlight areas.
* Lens Correction - Another correction filter is Lens Correction. This filter allows users to correct many different lens distortions including chromatic aberrations, vignetting and transform perspectives with horizontal and vertical controls.
* New Blurs - Photoshop CS2 now has new blur filters available including Smart Blur, Shape Blur and Box Blur.
* Flash Galleries - The Web Gallery now includes two new options for the display, both of which use Flash to power these galleries. The Web Gallery features is now also available in Adobe Bridge, as well as Photoshop CS2.
* New Brush Tools - The Healing Brush has an added mode called Spot Healing. Spot Healing allows users to heal without first setting a sample area. Another tools that is helpful is the Redeye Reduction tool. You simply select the tool from your palette and draw a marquee around the eyes and voila! The redeye is gone.

These are a few of the new features now available in Photoshop CS2.

All in all, if you are already using Photoshop, the new CS2 version is worth the upgrade to make things easily and to avoid some previous frustrate or tedious work. In my opinion, just the new functionality of the layers palette and the font previews make it worth the upgrade, not to mention the other features.

If you are not using Photoshop CS2, now is the time to step up to the professional grade and work in the big leagues.

Loren Elks, Group Manager
D-MAG.org