Adobe Photoshop CS2 Review

Adobe recently announced its latest product as Photoshop CS2, the new second edition of Adobe's Creative Suite. The new software combines the full new versions of its existing products; Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, GoLive and Acrobat 7.0 Pro. This move brings together the new features of CS 2 to form a sophisticated offering for their customers working in print, on the web, or on mobile devices.

The major upgrade makes sense in that it communicates the interoperability and relationship between Adobe's products and the company's initiative to deliver digital photography to a new level of experience in the overall creative process.  All the apps received its major sweeping improvements and included advanced tools for digital photography.

Photoshop, for example, moving from CS to CS2, included a new plug-in called Camera Raw Converter which uses your camera's raw mode to edit and shoot better images. New features such as Spot Healing Brush and Smart Sharpen are also integrated in version 2 of Photoshop. The former is for correcting photo problems such as blemishes and red eye and the later for fixing photo blurring.

Another plus in this premium edition is integrated with Adobe Illustrator CS2. The Live Trace which quickly convert photos and scan images to editable paths and the Live Paint tools which applies color to any region and creates new shapes which automatically corrects gaps.

Most impressive, perhaps, is the Adobe Bridge, the new file browser in Adobe Creative Suite 2, which functions as a hub that connects and controls your project files, applications, and settings.

This latest Adobe suite is available as stand alone software or a key component of Adobe Creative Suite2.

Tutorials that use CS2:

Photoshop CS2 New Filter Gallery - Mix and match filters with the new filter gallery effects, select from a handful of filters to modify and combine to create custom effects while using Photoshop CS multiple manipulations and undo's.
 

Working With Layers In Photoshop CS2 - Tips for how to work with layers in Photoshop CS2.
 

Photoshop CS2 Lens Blur Filter - Use the new lens blur filter to simulate camera focus to achieve a depth of field effect.