Adobe Photoshop CS2
As the gold standard for professional image manipulation, Adobe Photoshop CS2 remains the cornerstone of the digital
imaging world, offering even more of the power users expect. It’s packed with inventive tools designed to turn creative ideas into high-end
realities. You can tailor the entire environment to fit your specific workflow, making it incredibly adaptable. Plus, with streamlined
processing and much smoother file management, the technical side just stays out of your way.
*Professional toolset*
Whether you're building something from scratch or fixing up a photo, you have a massive arsenal of painting, drawing, and retouching options at your fingertips.
-Improved File Browser
It's much easier to preview, tag, and organize your library; you can hunt down specific assets by searching metadata and keywords, or even push through large batches of
files directly from the updated File Browser.
-Customized Workspace
Make the software move at your pace by saving your own preferred layouts, tool configurations, and
custom keyboard shortcuts.
- History palette
There's no reason to be hesitant when experimenting; the History palette lets you jump back or forward through various steps in an instant.
-Filter Gallery
The Filter Gallery allows you to browse through various filters while seeing how stacked effects look in real-time.
*Graphic design*
-Layers
Handle complex compositions by stacking images, text, and various effects onto hundreds of individual layers, all of which can be managed via
sets, color labels, or locks.
- Layer Comps
If you need to show a client several different versions of a layout, Layer Comps let you save different layer combinations within the single
original file for maximum efficiency.
-Text on a path
Give your typography some shape by wrapping text around paths or inside specific contours. You can always go back and tweak the text later, even if you're working in Adobe
Illustrator.
-Artistic brushes
Mimic old-school fine art styles using effects that simulate wet or dry brushes, charcoal, pastels, and more. You can even use
certain brushes to "paint" in textures like foliage or grass.
-Special effects filters
With over 95 Special Effects Filters available, you can play around with high-level looks quite easily. Use the new Filter Gallery to preview
multiple filters applied at once.
*Photography *
- Color correction
Fine-tune the colors, contrast, and dynamic range of any shot using a deep suite of professional
color-correction tools.
-Healing Brush
Cleaning up a photo—whether it's dust, scratches, skin blemishes, or wrinkles—is simple thanks to the Healing Brush.
-Comprehensive 16-bit support
For those needing higher precision, there is expanded support for 16-bit imagery across core functions like
layers, brushes, text, and shapes.
-Integrated digital camera raw file support
You can get much cleaner, higher-quality results by working directly with the raw data from most mainstream
digital camera models. Supported cameras.
-File Browser tagging
Keep track of your intellectual property by embedding copyright details right into the metadata via the File Browser.
*Web production with ImageReady CS*
-Enhanced ImageReady user interface
Speed up your web design workflow with better object selection, grouping capabilities, and helpful smart guides.
-Photoshop Integration
Moving between Photoshop and ImageReady is faster and more intuitive, featuring automated saving and shared
tools, commands, and shortcuts.
-Image slicing
Take complicated, multi-layered images and slice them into specific sections, applying custom formats and compression to each part before they're exported
as an HTML table.
-Variable data support
Automate the creation of web graphics by pulling in information directly from spreadsheets or databases.
-Macromedia Flash file export
Use ImageReady CS to generate Macromedia® Flash™ (SWF) animations, incorporating both vector art and adjustable text.
*Video*
-Non-square pixel support
Work with various aspect ratios smoothly, ensuring non-square pixels don't cause unwanted distortion.
-Guide presets
Design becomes much smoother when you can use video-specific presets that clearly mark out action-safe and title-safe zones on your screen.
-Enhanced 16-bit compositing
For those doing heavy lifting like matte painting, 3D rendering, or high-end film compositing, you now have much more precision thanks to expanded support for
16-bit images across all core tools, from layers to brushes and beyond.
-Layers-to-files export
If you need to move layered Photoshop artwork into various video editing or compositing suites, you can do it fast via the
integrated Export Layers to Files command.
-Non-square pixel support
Dealing with different aspect ratios? You can now instantly adjust images with non-square pixels without the headache.
-Flexible type
There’s more room to play when you can wrap text along paths or fit it directly inside custom shapes.
-Dynamic levels
The new Histogram palette lets you track every single adjustment made to your image in real-time.
Key highlights:
Upgrading to Adobe Photoshop CS2 gives you more of what you actually need: broader creative freedom, a
Customized Workspace tailored to your specific workflow, and much faster file management—like batch processing for your
digital camera raw files. It’s about removing the friction so you can just focus on the art. That's the promise of Photoshop CS2.
- Faster file management with Adobe Bridge
- The game-changing Vanishing Point
- Better control over multiple layers
- Smart Objects
- Batch processing for multi-image digital camera raw files
- Image Warp
- Advanced noise reduction techniques
- Support for 32-bit High Dynamic Range (HDR)
- Fully customizable workspaces and menus
- Spot Healing Brush
- Instant one-click red-eye correction
Homepage -
http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/
