Adobe Announces Photoshop CS2

Adobe Pushes the Boundaries of Digital Photography and Imaging with Debut of Photoshop CS2 New Vanishing Point Feature, Dramatic Camera Raw Workflow Enhancements, Customizable Menus and Smart Objects Headline Milestone Photoshop Upgrade

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Adobe announces Photoshop CS2

SAN JOSE, Calif.–(QUARKvsINDESIGN.com)–April 4, 2005–Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced Adobe® Photoshop® CS2, a major upgrade to the pro­fes­sion­al indus­try stan­dard for dig­i­tal image edit­ing and cre­ation. Available as a stand-alone soft­ware appli­ca­tion or as a key com­po­nent of Adobe Creative Suite® 2, also announced today (see sep­a­rate press release), Photoshop CS2 soft­ware brings a new lev­el of pow­er, pre­ci­sion and con­trol to the dig­i­tal pho­tog­ra­phy expe­ri­ence and to the over­all cre­ative process.

“Photoshop CS2 push­es the enve­lope with pow­er­ful fea­tures and sim­pli­fied work­flows that pro­vide pho­tog­ra­phers and cre­ative pro­fes­sion­als the free­dom to deliv­er stun­ning images,” said Bryan Lamkin, senior vice pres­i­dent of Digital Imaging and Digital Video Products at Adobe. “In light of the four mil­lion dig­i­tal SLRs expect­ed to ship this year, more pho­tog­ra­phers than ever will be mak­ing Photoshop CS2 their dig­i­tal dark­room of choice.”

Advanced Tools for Digital Photographers, Graphics and Video Professionals

Photoshop CS2 inte­grates a new set of intu­itive tools, includ­ing an enhanced Spot Healing Brush, for han­dling com­mon pho­to­graph­ic prob­lems such as blem­ish­es, red-eye, noise, blur­ring and lens dis­tor­tion. Smart Objects allow users to scale and trans­form images and vec­tor illus­tra­tions with­out los­ing image qual­i­ty — as well as cre­ate linked dupli­cates of embed­ded graph­ics — so that a sin­gle edit updates across mul­ti­ple iterations. 

Responding to requests from film, broad­cast and video pro­fes­sion­als, Photoshop CS2 now allows non-destructive edit­ing and the cre­ation and edit­ing of 32-Bit High Dynamic Range (HDR) images, ide­al for 3D ren­der­ing and advanced com­posit­ing. FireWire Previews can also be viewed on a tele­vi­sion mon­i­tor through a new direct export feature.

Photoshop CS2 users will test the lim­its of cre­ativ­i­ty with new tools like Vanishing Point and Image Warping. Vanishing Point cuts tedious graph­ic and pho­to retouch­ing tasks by allow­ing users to clone, paint and trans­form image objects while retain­ing visu­al per­spec­tive. Reinventing work­flows such as prod­uct pack­ag­ing devel­op­ment, Image Warping makes it easy to fold, stretch, pull, twist and wrap an image into shape by select­ing an on-demand pre­set or drag­ging cus­tom con­trol points.

Adobe Bridge and New Camera Raw Features Speed Imaging Workflows

With Photoshop CS2 soft­ware, find­ing and work­ing with dig­i­tal pho­tos and images has nev­er been eas­i­er. The pop­u­lar File Browser has been upgrad­ed to Adobe Bridge, which func­tions as a hub for pro­duc­tiv­i­ty, imagery and cre­ativ­i­ty, pro­vid­ing multi-view file brows­ing and smooth cross-product inte­gra­tion across Adobe Creative Suite 2 soft­ware. Adobe Bridge also pro­vides access to Adobe Stock Photos, a new stock pho­tog­ra­phy ser­vice that offers users one-stop shop­ping — across five elite stock image providers — to deliv­er high-quality, royalty-free images for lay­out and design (see sep­a­rate press release).

The new Camera Raw 3.0 work­flow allows set­tings for mul­ti­ple raw files to be simul­ta­ne­ous­ly mod­i­fied. In addi­tion batch pro­cess­ing of raw files, to JPEG, TIFF, DNG or PSD for­mats, can now be done in the back­ground with­out launch­ing the main Photoshop exe­cutable. Integrated, non-destructive crop­ping and straight­en­ing con­trols allow raw files to be eas­i­ly pre­pared for final output.

Simplifying Photoshop’s rich inter­face, task-based menu pre­sets make it eas­i­er to find the fea­tures need­ed for spe­cif­ic work. Users can cre­ate their own cus­tom pre­sets, high­light­ing favorite items and now have the abil­i­ty to define event-based scripts and time-saving oper­a­tions that exe­cute auto­mat­i­cal­ly when trig­gered by actions, such as sav­ing or print­ing a file. Multiple Layer Controls speeds edit­ing, enabling the simul­ta­ne­ous selec­tion and manip­u­la­tion of numer­ous lay­ers with­in a file. 

Pricing and Availability

Adobe Photoshop CS2 for Mac OS X ver­sion 10.2.8 through 10.3.8, Microsoft® Windows® 2000 with Service Pack 4 or Windows XP with Service Pack 1 or 2, will begin ship­ping in May to cus­tomers in the United States and Canada, and will be avail­able through Adobe Authorized Resellers and the Adobe Store at www​.adobe​.com/store . International ver­sions are expect­ed to begin ship­ping in late May and ear­ly June. Adobe Photoshop CS2 will be avail­able for an esti­mat­ed street price of US$599 and licensed users of any pre­vi­ous ver­sion of Photoshop can upgrade for US$149. For more detailed infor­ma­tion about new fea­tures, upgrade poli­cies and pric­ing, please vis­it: www​.adobe​.com/​p​h​o​toshop . Adobe Photoshop CS2 is also avail­able as part of Adobe Creative Suite 2. 

About Adobe Systems Incorporated

Adobe is the world’s lead­ing provider of soft­ware solu­tions to cre­ate, man­age and deliv­er high-impact, reli­able dig­i­tal con­tent. For more infor­ma­tion, vis­it www​.adobe​.com .