High Expectations on Adobe Creative Suite 2

May 25, 2005 – As the Adobe Systems Incorporated made available the Adobe Creative Suite 2 Premium Edition prospects are raised continuously on its package of upgraded design software – Adobe Photoshop CS2, Adobe InDesign CS2, Adobe Illustrator CS2 and Adobe GoLive CS2 with the Version Cue CS2. Additional speculations are also expressed concerning the introduction of the Adobe Stock Photos Service and Adobe Bridge and the inclusion of recently released Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional.

The fervor of interest among the web and print establishments are caused by the promising features that Adobe Creative Suite offers. It was introduced as a powerhouse of design and publishing environment designed not only for web and print but also for the latest generation of handheld devices today. The latest integrated software program is anchored by Adobe Bridge, a new visual file browser. Acting as a hub for productivity, Adobe Bridge allows instant browsing, organizing and processing of design assets for the designers. This also gives direct access to Adobe Stock Photos, a one-stop shopping for high-quality and royalty-free images to be used for designer’s layout and designs. Direct access is also pointed to Adobe Help Center for in-depth information about the Adobe CS 2 components.

Owing to the upgrades, creative professionals are assured that all the elements they need to be able to translate their ideas into real designs. During the shipment, Adobe Photoshop CS2, InDesign CS2, Illustrator CS2 and GoLive CS2 were made available as standalone software products. Along with them Adobe InCopy software, a professional writing and editing program bound with Adobe InDesign CS2 software were shipped.

Here are several new features provided by the several standalone programs of CS2:

Adobe Photoshop CS2 - professional digital image editing, precision and control in digital photography and overall creative process. It’s new feature, Vanishing Point cuts tedious graphic and photo retouching tasks. Users are allowed to clone, paint and transform image objects but still retain visual perspective.

Adobe InDesign CS2 – allows designers to easily and quickly transfer across a variety of workflows from text-intensive book, magazine and newspaper production to high-end XML-based cross-media workflows with more fluidity and versatility. It’s new snippets features enables users to export objects that they can easily share or repurpose live InDesign content and layouts from part of a page.
Adobe Illustrator CS2 – enhanced user interface and expanded support for different like Scalable Vector Graphics Tiny (SVG-t). It’s new Live Trace feature can easily and accurately convert scans of hand-drawn sketches and digital photos into fully editable and scaleable illustrator artwork.

Meanwhile, its Live Paint feature provides users the ability to quickly and intuitively color artwork as based on how it appears on screen.

Adobe GoLive CS2 – new and innovative CSS layout tools simplifies mobile content development. With this stand-alone program, creation, publication, management and updating of content that adapts to the latest handheld devices can be accomplished.

Version Cue CS2 – allows visual preview. Tracks and access historical and alternate file versions in Adobe CS 2 projects. Sharing of work by workgroup users became much easier. Also it can initiate web-based collaborative review of Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) project files. -30-

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