![]() ![]() For example, Vanishing Point provides automatic perspective correction within layers, making it easy to add new objects in context to old photos, but this feature requires powerful hardware to run smoothly. Other new features offer a high gee-whiz factor but limited real-world use. Photoshop CS2 now has WYSIWYG font menus-at last, you can keep your Lucidas straight. And, finally, there's a long-desired WYSIWYG font menu in this release. Smart Objects, yet another new feature, lets you nondestructively edit Illustrator artwork. New Smart Guides, allowing you to align items across different layers, should also save you from always clicking within the Layers palette. The ability to manipulate multiple layers with ease is a welcome improvement in Photoshop CS2. There are a few features aimed at amateurs, including red-eye correction and a spot-healing brush, which can erase people or objects from a photo and which works across all layers. ![]() ![]() Pro photographers will also appreciate new tools such as Reduce Noise, which Adobe claims will increase a camera's useful ISO range, and Optical Lens Correction, a nifty tool that compensates for some common lens distortions. Along with Camera Raw 3.0 support, which lets you edit and process multiple raw images simultaneously, there's new support for the Adobe-backed Digital Negative (DNG) standard, a new archival format for the raw files generated by digital cameras. For example, in this release, Adobe introduces features targeted toward professional photographers moving to an all-digital work flow, such as support for 32-bit High Dynamic Range (HDR) images, allowing you to merge multiple exposures of a single image into one composite image. Previous versions of Photoshop can also coexist on the same computer if, say, a print publisher is using an older version and you need to make certain that your images are truly backward compatible.Īdobe Photoshop CS2 is a serious image-editing package, with advanced features beyond what the casual user will want or need. Installing the entire Creative Suite 2.0 requires four CD-ROMs' worth of data, but you can select elements or individual applications to ease the burden on your hard drive. But if you're already running up against limitations within those basic photo apps or you want to create original digital art, we think Adobe Photoshop CS2 is worth the price. Those folks wanting only to catalog and clean up snapshots for family albums, however, should look to Apple's iPhoto (part of the iLife suite) or to Corel PaintShop Pro 9.0 instead. Web designers will also appreciate that more elements of Adobe ImageReady CS2 are integrated within Photoshop CS2. On its own, Photoshop CS2 gives professional photographers a good reason to upgrade, largely because of the new version's support for Camera Raw 3.0 and Digital Negative images and tools to reduce noise and optical lens distortion. As part of Adobe Creative Suite 2.0, Photoshop CS2 integrates better than the old version with Illustrator CS2, GoLive CS2, and InDesign CS2, thanks in large part to Adobe Version Cue 2.0 and the new Adobe Bridge file-management applications. Available for PCs running Windows 2000 and XP and Macs running OS X, Photoshop CS2 includes new features that make it well worth the price of the upgrade. When it comes to professional digital image editing, Adobe Photoshop CS2 stands head and shoulders above the competition. ![]()
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