Adobe Systems Incorporated today announced Adobe Photoshop CS2, a major upgrade to the professional industry standard for digital image editing and creation. Available as a stand-alone software application or as a key component of Adobe Creative Suite 2, also announced today, Photoshop CS2 software brings a new level of power, precision and control to the digital photography experience and to the overall creative process.
Adobe Creative Suite 2 Premium software is a unified design environment that combines full new versions of Adobe Photoshop CS2, Illustrator CS2, InDesign CS2, GoLive CS2, and Acrobat 7.0 Professional software with new Version Cue CS2, Adobe Bridge, and Adobe Stock Photos.
“Photoshop CS2 pushes the envelope with powerful features and simplified workflows that provide photographers and creative professionals the freedom to deliver stunning images,” said Bryan Lamkin, senior vice president of Digital Imaging and Digital Video Products at Adobe in the press release. “In light of the four million digital SLRs expected to ship this year, more photographers than ever will be making Photoshop CS2 their digital darkroom of choice.”
Photoshop CS2 integrates a new set of intuitive tools, including an enhanced Spot Healing Brush, for handling common photographic problems such as blemishes, red-eye, noise, blurring and lens distortion. Smart Objects allow users to scale and transform images and vector illustrations without losing image quality — as well as create linked duplicates of embedded graphics — so that a single edit updates across multiple iterations.
Responding to requests from film, broadcast and video professionals, Photoshop CS2 now allows non-destructive editing and the creation and editing of 32-Bit High Dynamic Range (HDR) images, ideal for 3D rendering and advanced compositing. FireWire Previews can also be viewed on a television monitor through a new direct export feature.
Photoshop CS2 users will test the limits of creativity with new tools like Vanishing Point and Image Warping. Vanishing Point cuts tedious graphic and photo retouching tasks by allowing users to clone, paint and transform image objects while retaining visual perspective. Reinventing workflows such as product packaging development, Image Warping makes it easy to fold, stretch, pull, twist and wrap an image into shape by selecting an on-demand preset or dragging custom control points.
With Photoshop CS2 software, finding and working with digital photos and images has never been easier. The popular File Browser has been upgraded to Adobe Bridge, which functions as a hub for productivity, imagery and creativity, providing multi-view file browsing and smooth cross-product integration across Adobe Creative Suite 2 software. Adobe Bridge also provides access to Adobe Stock Photos, a new stock photography service that offers users one-stop shopping — across five elite stock image providers — to deliver high-quality, royalty-free images for layout and design (see separate press release).
The new Camera Raw 3.0 workflow allows settings for multiple raw files to be simultaneously modified. In addition batch processing of raw files, to JPEG, TIFF, DNG or PSD formats, can now be done in the background without launching the main Photoshop executable. Integrated, non-destructive cropping and straightening controls allow raw files to be easily prepared for final output.
Simplifying Photoshop’s rich interface, task-based menu presets make it easier to find the features needed for specific work. Users can create their own custom presets, highlighting favorite items and now have the ability to define event-based scripts and time-saving operations that execute automatically when triggered by actions, such as saving or printing a file. Multiple Layer Controls speeds editing, enabling the simultaneous selection and manipulation of numerous layers within a file.
Adobe Photoshop CS2 for Mac OS X version 10.2.8 through 10.3.8, Microsoft Windows 2000 with Service Pack 4 or Windows XP with Service Pack 1 or 2, will begin shipping in May to customers in the United States and Canada, and will be available through Adobe Authorized Resellers and the Adobe Store.
International versions are expected to begin shipping in late May and early June. Adobe Photoshop CS2 will be available for an estimated street price of US$599 and licensed users of any previous version of Photoshop can upgrade for US$149. For more detailed information about new features, upgrade policies and pricing, please visit: http://www.adobe.com/photoshop. Adobe Photoshop CS2 is also available as part of Adobe Creative Suite 2.
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No new Photoshop for me until Core Image is adopted. Could they do that as a x.0.1 upgrade? I wouldn’t think so
Now GoLive. . . that’s a different matter entirely. That might be worth it.
Excellent!
But will the feature that everyone wants who uses Indesign CS be in the new CS2?:
Backward compatibility and able to open Quark 6 documents!!!
The biggest addition to the CS suite is Product Activation.
Sorry, Adobe, but for that reason alone, I am skipping this upgrade. And not because I steal your software–I pay quite a bit and only use licensed software–but I refuse to support such companies and products.
Product Activation is the last “innovation” from Microsoft you want to be copying.
how about releasing a patch that will let Illustrator CS run for more than 15 minutes without crashing? Why would I buy an upgrade when the current version isn’t worth a crap?
Maybe the upgrade fixes that problem you moron! It’s an upgrade, not a step back… Or you could just up your RAM. Illustrator is a RAM hog and it gets worse with every upgrade!
Microsoft and innovation in the same sentence. i needed a joke.
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It also needs to be optimised for G5 processors!
So, anybody know on Photoshop’s Core Image adoption ability??
to beatsme: “how about releasing a patch that will let Illustrator CS run for more than 15 minutes without crashing?”
Illustrator CS works fine on my Windows computer, never crashes, never have a problem – even with Photoshop or another program running. Only have 512 Mb on my Windows computer – just got it, adding more RAM tomorrow.
SOLAR FLARE, I’ve never had Illustrator CS crash on my Dual 867 MDD G4 and I only have 768MB of RAM. Maybe your problem is not CS.
MDN, take a lude, as winblows machines go, the new HP looks fine and it’s nice to see them continuing to push the iPod.
Hey Hank for outatown, how in the heck is your computer running on only 512 megabits of memory? That only 64MB and I thought all current graphical operating systems required at least 128MB.
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dab2-
Very funny!
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From: moiety5
Apr 04, 05 – 10:18 am
So, anybody know on Photoshop’s Core Image adoption ability??
I really don’t think Adobe ever will integrate Core Image, I hope I’m wrong, but if they did the Mac version of PS would be far better than the Windows version and Adobe has catered more towards their Windows using customers. Sad but true!
Adobe Announces, Bend over and take it again for a product that hasnt changed, again..
dab2 -obviously a type-oh on the 512MB, glad you anally – wink – noticed it.
Oh yeah you wrote: “That only 64MB”…of course, you mean “That´s only 64MB” wink
ButtPirate – Correcto observation. Or for dab2 wink : “That is a correct observation.”
For dab2: wink =
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Sorry Photoshop thieves, you won’t be able to steal this one so easily.
This is a significant upgrade for those who truly understand the power of Photoshop. $150 upgrade price is dirt cheap to those who make their living off it.
Why are the updates always complained about by the people to steal it anyway? Are you sad that you can’t steal it anymore? Boo hoo!
“Sorry Photoshop thieves, you won’t be able to steal this one so easily.”
Sorry Tom Strong, But where there is a will, there is a way.
Wow, I am sorry for my lack of proofreading. I am currently very sick and when I wrote my earlier posts I did not have a clear head.
I hope my horrid grammar, created by my typographical errors, did not offend anybody too much.
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Oops, I meant
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