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What''s New

Adobe Creative Suite 2 is a unified design environment that delivers the next level of integration in creative software. New features and tighter integration among suite components simplify creative and production tasks, enabling you to work more efficiently than ever before. Adobe Version Cue CS2 includes enhancements in file versioning and review management, while other new features like Adobe Bridge, Adobe Stock Photos, color consistency, and unified Adobe PDF file creation offer greater productivity and collaboration.

Adobe Photoshop CS2

Revolutionary Vanishing Point

Achieve amazing results in a fraction of the time with the groundbreaking Vanishing Point, which lets you clone, brush, and paste elements that automatically match the perspective of any image area.

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.

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.

Multi-image digital camera raw file processing

Accelerate your raw file workflow with simultaneous processing of multiple images while you continue working. Import images into your choice of formats, including Digital Negative (DNG); enjoy automatic adjustments to exposure, shadows, and brightness and contrast; and much more.

Image Warp

Easily create packaging mock-ups or other dimensional effects by wrapping an image around any shape or stretching, curling, and bending an image using Image Warp.

Adobe Illustrator CS2

Live Trace

Quickly and accurately convert photos, scans, or other bitmap images to editable and scalable vector paths with the Live Trace feature.

Live Paint

Apply color to any region or edge and use overlapping paths to create new shapes with the Live Paint tool, which intuitively colors artwork and automatically detects and corrects gaps.

Control palette

Discover new features and find existing features faster in the context-sensitive Control palette. Accessing selection-based tools from a single location eliminates the need for multiple palettes.

Custom workspaces

Work more efficiently and optimize your screen area using custom workspaces that display only the palettes you need for a specific task. Save, share, or access any workspace at any time or use workspace templates.

Photoshop layer comp support

Control the visibility of layer comps in linked, embedded, or opened Photoshop files from within Illustrator.

Adobe InDesign CS2

Object styles

Apply and globally update object-level formatting more efficiently using object styles. Save a wide range of graphic, text, and frame-level attributes as object styles to create more consistent designs and speed up production tasks.

Adobe Photoshop and Adobe PDF layer support

Selectively display layers and layer comps in Photoshop files, and layers in Adobe PDF files, to experiment with different design options or use multiple variations of a file in your layoutall while linking to a single file.

InDesign snippets

Easily export InDesign objects as snippets, which can be shared with colleagues or reused in other documents. When you place or drag a snippet into a layout, InDesign re-creates the original objects, their formatting, and their relative positioning on the page.

Adobe InCopy CS2 assignments

Assign only the elements of a document that an editor using Adobe InCopy^® CS2 software needs to work on while you''re designing the rest whether that''s specific frames on a page, frames on one or more spreads, or all the frames in a document.

Save backwards to InDesign CS

Export your InDesign CS2 document to the InDesign Interchange (INX) format and open it in InDesign CS for sharing with people still working in the previous version.

Adobe GoLive CS2

Enhanced live rendering

Preview changes to Web and mobile content in a real-time, integrated engine built on the Opera^® browser that supports Small-Screen Rendering (SSR).

Simple visual tools to build and edit CSS-based pages

Build Web pages that conform to open standards using innovative new visual CSS workflows based on the CSS Editor and CSS prebuilt block objects.

Visual CSS authoring for mobile devices

Easily author and validate standards-compliant CSS content for mobile devices using simple visual tools.

Visual SVG-t inspection and authoring for mobile

View SVG-t content in split-view interfaces, enabling art tree, source, and XML outline views and access to an animation scrubbing timeline for rapid development.

Total site management

Track and manage everything in your site, from assets to links, uploading content using Secure FTP and WebDAV via SSH or SSL. Easily synchronize local and remote files.

Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional

Inclusive electronic reviews

Use Acrobat 7.0 Professional to enable anyone with free Adobe Reader^® 7.0 software to add comments to Adobe PDF files during design reviews.

Improved preflighting of Adobe PDF files

Check for problems in Adobe PDF files using the improved preflighting toolwhich now supports droplets for automationand share preflight reports as comments.

Powerful print production tools

Correct common problems in Adobe PDF filessuch as converting colors, previewing separations, remapping spot colors, flattening transparency, and fixing hairline ruleswithout having to re-create the file.

Ink coverage, rich black detection, and overprint warnings

Minimize prepress errors with new warnings for total ink coverage, rich black detection, and overprints.

Support for the latest standards

Create Adobe PDF files that are compliant with the PDF/X-1a:2003 and PDF/X-3:2003 print production standards, used for prepress document exchanges, and that include JDF product definitions with details about the jobs you''re submitting for print production.

Adobe Version Cue CS2

Productivity made simple

Find files fast, track versions across applications, link files together, and share them in creative collaboration without fear of overwriting someone else''s work.

Shared project information

Actively track the status of project files and enable this information to be easily shared across workgroups.

Simplified sharing for small workgroups

Easily share files with others within the Version Cue Workspace, and keep your files safe without fear of them being overwritten. View the status of each file to know who is working on what file.

Automatic file naming

Say good-bye to awkward filenames such as brochure_final_final3.indd. Instead, you can name a file to suit your preferences and let Version Cue handle the version tracking without the need for a naming convention.

File version notification

Receive helpful reminders while updating versions or placing photos and illustrations in layouts.

Adobe Bridge

Organized assets

Quickly organize, browse, locate, and preview the assets you need every dayPhotoshop images, Illustrator graphics, InDesign layouts, Adobe PDF files, GoLive Web pages, and a variety of standard graphics fileswith visual previews and scalable thumbnails as you work.

Project and file sharing

Work collaboratively and access multiple versions as well as alternate renditions of your files through Version Cue CS2 in Adobe Bridge. Actively track the status of project files and enable this information to be easily shared across workgroups.

Accessibility anywhere

Jump to Adobe Bridge from within Photoshop CS2, Illustrator CS2, InDesign CS2, or GoLive CS2, work in it as a standalone application, or have it float onscreen as a palette.

Powerful file searching

Search for files on a hard drive or across a network using extensive metadata information, including attributes such as all files that use a certain PANTONE^® color or set of fonts.

Convenient access to stock photos

Browse and search royalty-free images from multiple stock photo agencies using Adobe Stock Photos in one convenient, familiar location. Purchase images from several agencies in a single shopping cart, and manage your imagery without ever leaving Adobe Creative Suite 2.