Adobe Photoshop CS2 Upgrade from Photoshop Version 5.5+ [Old Version]

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Product Features

• Photoshop CS2 is the new Professional standard in Desktop Digital imaging. Its groundbreaking creative tools help you achieve extraordinary results. With more creative options, a more custom-fit Photoshop for the way you work, and more efficient File handling, you can stretch your imagination and let the ideas flow.
• 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

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 1.9 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: B0008GM97I
• Item model number: 23102197
• Date first available at Amazon.com: April 4, 2005
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (64 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #3,016 in Software (See Bestsellers in Software)

Product Description

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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 the Adobe PhotoShop CS 2 Upgrade. Artists, creative professionals, photographers, and industry professionals will find that the workflow 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 will be especially 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 mock-ups 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 multilayer 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. Adobe PhotoShop Elements owners do not qualify for this upgrade.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

256 of 262 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Product good. Company bad., October 20, 2005

By	J. K. Tumlinson "J. Kevin Tumlinson" (Houston, TX USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I'm an avid Photoshop user. I'm even a member of the NAPP. I use Adobe Photoshop every day in my work becuase it's great for everything from television produciton to web design to making your ex-girlfriend look like she has a huge nose. So I'm already a raving fan, and when CS2 was announced I was on it.

Where I have a problem is with Adobe itself. First, when I recieved my upgrade I tried to install it but ran into a problem. It wouldn't accept my previous version, nor would it accept the serial number. A bit put out, I called Adobe.

Here's where problem number two came in - they wouldn't even talk to me until I paid $40 for tech support!

I'm a small business owner. If I treated my clients with this sort of contempt I'd be flipping burgers or selling blood to make a living. But what do you do when a faceless corporation initiates a policy designed to cut down their own costs for technical support by placing the burden on their own customers?

The next slap in the face came when I finally got through to tech support. The reason my serial number wouldn't work was because I had been foolish enough to purchase the Adobe Creative Suite as a full package. The copy of Photoshop CS that I had wasn't a stand-alone copy, it was part of a package. In order to use the upgrade I would have to have a full version of Photoshop.

Of course, I DO have a full version of Photoshop. I've been using it for years. But it completely INFURIATES me that I paid several hundred dollars for the Creative Suite and to upgrade it I'll have to pay several hundred more. Because I was a loyal enough customer to buy the entire product, my punishment will be that I can't upgrade any one piece of it. I must upgrade the whole.

The trouble is, I don't NEED an upgrade for the entire suite. I bought it so I would have the additional software, but the only thing I really need to be up to date is Photoshop. Therefore, upgrading the whole package is a waste of my money.

I'm very dissappointed in Adobe over this. There's not much I can do about it, unfortunately. I still need Photoshop. I suppose the only recourse I have is to be far less sympathetic towards the company when I hear of people in my industry who have obtained illegal copies of the software. Who can blame them, at this point? It's hard to condemn them for stealing software from a company that obviously has an agenda to rob its customers blind.

Of course... that's just the humble opinion of a nationally syndicated columnist and producer.

37 of 37 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars got the wrong update, February 1, 2006

By	Richard H. Browne "Sigma squared" (Dallas, TX USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I bought the update, having the Adobe Suite. However, when I went to update Photoshop, I was blocked. Seems that you must update the whole suite, so my update is of no value to me. Since I opened the shrinkwrap in the course of finding this out, I can not return it. Adobe suggests that I put it on Ebay.

84 of 91 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Photoshop CS2 OK - Bridge Sucks, June 13, 2005

By	J. White - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Photoshop CS2 has several important new features and is a worthy upgrade. I give 5 stars for Photoshop CS2 and ZERO stars for the included Adobe Bridge 1.0 File Browser. Bridge replaces the old and excellent File Browser from Photoshop CS. It is very slow to open, bug laden, and clunky. Hopefully Adobe will see the light and scrap this abomination. It is truly an example of some of the worst design in software history.