What's New? 
              Once you have the program installed, check out the very handy review, "what's new in CS2" found under Window/Workspace. This highlights features new to CS2 in all the menus. It's a really good way to familiarize yourself with changes from previous versions.

The Bridge 
              Possibly the biggest change to CS2 is the arrival of a whole new file browser. Dubbed "the bridge", it launches independently from Photoshop and can be used to navigate files in any of the Creative Suite applications. It allows you to easily organize thumbnails and folders, have multiple browsing windows open at once with various views (details, thumbnails, filmstrip, etc). It also allows thumbnail resizing on the fly -- very handy. You can also assign labels and ratings. By default labels are given the names of their corresponding colors, but you can change them to something more useful like "personal", "events", "portraits" etc. To customize ratings simply adopt a system that works for you. You can then sort by label or rating, and in fact, filter by label or rating to show only the best photos labeled ''portraits'.

Noise Reduction 
              Noise reduction, which applies selective blurring and sharpening filters to reduce the "grain" in digital photos taken at very high ISOs. Previously this had been available in third party applications such as Noise Ninja, but now you can find it under filters.

Select Multiple Layers 
              Another key feature is the ability to select multiple layers at once, using ctrl-click and perform actions on them as though they were a single merged layer. You can also command-drag the selection tool to select multiple layers as you would multiple objects in a page layout program like Quark.

Healing Brush 
              Out of all the new tools in Photoshop CS, the one that made me the most friends was the healing brush. Crows feet be gone! Wrinkles away! Weird odd splotches no more! But one of the annoying things about it was that if you didn't watch where you were going you could retouch someone's crows feet with a pair of lips. The instant healing brush looks at the area around what you're trying to heal and figures out how it should look.

WYSIWYG Font Views 
              The font view is now WYSIWYG -- I have trouble understanding why any programs still have non-WYSIWYG font menus. But now you can see the word "sample" (admittedly not as good as the word "brachypolemius" for determining the characteristics of a font.)

Lens Correction Filters 
              Adobe definitely had digital photographers in mind when they included the exhaustive lens correction filters now available for fixing many common types of lens distortions such as barreling and pincushioning, as well as chromatic aberration, a color shift common in lower quality lenses.

Vanishing Point 
              This is one of the coolest additions to CS2 -- the Vanishing Point allows you to cut and paste within an image while retaining perspective. Huh? Imagine that you have a photograph of a kitchen with black and white checkered tile extending towards the camera. If you want to extend that checkered pattern a few feet further the lines on the tile wouldn't match if you simply cut and paste -- they'd be smaller at one end than the other. With this feature you can cut and paste tiles all you want and keep the perspective.

Smart Objects 
              CS2 allows you to reference original vector graphics and camera RAW files and import them. These will scale from the original files as your PSD scales because they reference the original document. Meaning if you lay out a poster for 8x10, using Smart Objects, then resize the whole thing to 32x40, your vector smart objects won't pixelate. You can also "flatten" a number of smart object layers into a single smart object which retains the smart object characteristics.

Smart Guides 
              Smart Guides are a useful nifty little feature that helps you align objects. You used to line up two boxes on a page, you'd drag down a guide line from the ruler, but Smart Guides automatically creates temporary guidelines that makes alignment a snap.

HDR high dynamic range 
              One of the few things we miss about film photography (apart from the head rush from the chemicals) is the f-stop choices that could be captured in a single exposure,. With digital photography, it's more like two instead of four or five. So extremely contrasty scenes like dappled shade or a brightly lit stage and a dimly lit orchestra pit are a nightmare to expose digitally. CS2 will automatically create HDR (High Dynamic Range) images from your bracketed multiple exposures, automating the process.

Conclusion 
              If you spend any significant time in front of a computer working with images, you'll find the upgrade to CS2 a huge time saver.

TECH SPECS 
              Memory: 320MB (384MB recommended) 
              Monitor resolution: 1,024x768, 16-bit or higher 
              Installation requirements: CD-ROM drive; Internet or phone connection required for product activation 
              Windows 
              Minimum Processor: Pentium III 
              Operating System: Windows 2000 SP4 or Windows XP SP1 or SP2 
              Hard drive space for installation: 650MB 
              Macintosh 
              Minimum Processor: PowerPC G3 
              Operating System: Mac OS X 10.2.8 (10.3.4 or higher recommended) 
              Hard drive space for installation: 750MB

STRENGTHS

             
• Many powerful new features
             
• The Bridge integrated file browser
             
• Bundled with useful training disk
             
• Integrates with other apps in the Creative Suite                

  WEAKNESSES

               
             
• High price
             
• Still no "paste as new image" option
             
• Resource hog                

  SUMMARY 
                    A great upgrade packed full of powerful new features that really just lacks a new image paste option to be a terrific can't-live-without product.

               
           

The serial number provided should only be used by customers who legitimately purchased CS2 and need to maintain their current use of these products.

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