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- Revolutionary Vanishing Point lets you clone, brush, and paste elements that automatically match the perspective of any image area
- Select and move, group, transform, and warp objects intuitively with multiple layer control
- Nondestructive scaling, rotating, and warping of raster and vector graphics with Smart Objects
- Image Warp creates packaging mock-ups or other dimensional effects by wrapping an image around any shape
- Multi-image digital camera raw file processing – Accelerate your raw file workflow in a choice of formats and adjustments to exposure, shadows, and brightness and contrast
Adobe Creative Suite 2 Premium software is a unified design environment that combines full new versions of Adobe Photoshop CS2, Illustrator CS2, InDesign CS2, GoLive CS2, and Acrobat 7.0 Professional software with new Version Cue CS2, the Adobe Bridge file browser, and Adobe Stock Photos. Delivering the next level of integration in creative software, plus consistent color and Adobe PDF file creation across components, Adobe Creative Suite 2 enables you to realize your ideas anywhere—in print, on the Web, or on mobile devices.More than just an upgrade to the world’s leading imaging, design, and print production software, Adobe’s Creative Suite 2 will change the way you harness your creativity. Creative Suite 2 is a fully integrated design
Review by Kiran for Adobe Creative Suite Premium CS2 (Mac) [Old Version]
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I am compelled to write this review since at least one reviewer complained about the installation being a problem. I did not see any problem whatsover. It was simply a breeze on my Mac powerbook G4. As to the quality of the product itself, it is too early for me to give a rating since I have just started using it. I will update this review in a month or so.
Review by D. Powsner for Adobe Creative Suite Premium CS2 (Mac) [Old Version]
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My intro to Creative Suite was via the Windows version of inDesign 1.0 and Illustrator. In the five years (?) since, I’ve switched from those stand-alone products to the entire Creative Suite for the Mac. Most of my time is with those two packages (illustrator and inDesign) as well as with GoLive and Version Cue.
Illustrator has always been (for my 5 yrs), and remains, excellent. My prior experience has been with Visio and Aldus Intellidraw (does anyone else remember that product?). Illustrator has the usual Adobe peculiarities which, once familiar, prove to be incredible time savers.
For someone who would be satisfied with MS Word, if it worked properly, inDesign is good — but overkill (and I mean that well). Still, I spent 4 solid years with it, before moving on (?) to Apple Pages (it’s better than Word, but lacks high-end features of inDesign that I don’t need most of the time). inDesign, to my experience, works nearly flawlessly. Coming from an office that is very Word orieinted, my only complaints with inDesign are (i) steep Adobe-like learning curve, and (ii) tough exports to MS Word. As to point (i), inDesign is similar to the other Adobe products, hence, the time you spend with inDesign will benefit your usage of Illustrator and vice versa. As to point (ii), exporting works fine — you just have to do it “story” at a time.
As to GoLive, I do simple web page creation and editing. GoLive is more than adequate for these functions and, I must say, I like it. Having come from a Front Page background (5 yrs ago), I found GoLive a little difficult to understand, at first. However, once I got the hang of it (over one solid weekend of playing around), I liked it. Early versions struck me as a little unstable (e.g., going back to GoLive 5, if I recall the number correctly). However, the recent versions have been just fine.
Version Cue is a interesting. I relied on it heavily for 3 yrs and I still do, to an extent. It’s great for holding Version Cue product. However, don’t get tempted, as I did, to use it as an extranet for folks outside your organization. It was not intended for that, I don’t think, and does not do it well. That said, it’s a cool way to store not only the many files created by inDesign, Illustrator, etc., but also related MS Word, Excel, PDF, and other files. Overall, the product works “pretty well.” I relied on it for some fairly heavy and time-sensitive products, without failure. Still, there were times with the earlier versions that I wondered whether it was going to leave me in a lurch. It never did. The more recent version seems stabler, though, I do find myself migrating over to a more conventional DAV server for the same functions (albeit without versioning).
One gem in the new product is Adobe Bridge. I’m not quite sure how to describe it, except as a “desktop” that’s great at viewing Adobe files. (Go figure!). It allows you to bounce around your local drive (as well, potentially, as network drives and Version Cue projects) to visualize your Adobe files. The integration is great: not only do you get high-res thumbnails, you can page through the Adobe files without opening the underlying applications.
Bottom line: second to my Powerbook (and the Apple software that came with it), Adobe Creative Suite CS 2 is the best computer product I own.
Review by B. Rossen for Adobe Creative Suite Premium CS2 (Mac) [Old Version]
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This suite installed and is working flawlessly in my Mac G5. The reviewer who was not able to install this suite may do better to complain about his machine. I shall deal with some of the comparative issues that may be useful for buyers contemplating this purchase alongside an alternative; the Macromedia suite being the most obvious example.
I do most of my development on Eclipse, IBM’s Open Source Integrated Development Environment. It is the platform of choice for Java web application development, and comes with plugins for editing XML, HTML and CSS. When purchasing the Adobe suite, I was not intending to migrate front-end development to CS2. Indeed, one of my colleagues – an affectionado of Fireworks – refers to GoLive as Adobe GoDead. Fireworks, indeed, has some very nice designers’ layout tools, but nothing I have not found in the Adobe suite too. My initial requirement was for the graphical tools, Photoshop (unquestionably the best, irrespective of what the Gimp fans out there say; Gimp just does not make the grade) Illustrator, and Acrobat (not just the reader).
I decided to purchase the suite since the all up price was about the same as the three applications I wanted, and am glad that I did.
The Bridge proved very useful for quickly navigating between applications and from desktop to application – with a more flexible and configurable interface that OS X’s Finder. Although I use Subversion (we recently migrated our repository from CVS to SVN), generating and keeping patches of large graphics files does not work properly, if at all on some formats, and the Adobe Version Cue became my choice for a graphics repository. No doubt you can see where I am going. Bit by bit, I found myself using more of the CS 2 suite, despite the fact that I have a range of state of the art tools on my servers and workstations, tools I already know rather well, and which are used by my employees. Despite these barriers, the Adobe CS 2 has become my preferred platform for front end development – yes, even GoLive. I shall not go through lists of features and their relative advantages. There are too many. If my experience is representative, then you too should expect to find excellent value for your investment in this package.
The suite is not a toy. It is a professional-team-based-development environment. It requires training to use effectively. I recommend that you get yourself Adobe tutorials to augment the help files; the help files I found rather cryptic and not suitable for learning from. The “Classroom in a Book” series is somewhat elementary, nevertheless covers the basics in a comprehensive series of tutorials. Experienced users, and anyone upgrading, will find it possible to skim rapidly through these. There are enough enhancements to the CS 2 (and at times somewhat gratuitous changes of menu organization) that even experienced users will obtain a worthwhile return on the time invested in these books. I regret that there is no Classroom in a Book for Version Cue – it could have had its own. Indeed, I will go so far as to say that the instructions for Version Cue that are included in the help files are woefully inadequate. Adobe, pay attention. Your help files (and the comments in the books) for this item are composed of self congratulatory advertising, and are not at all helpful.
The Adobe Creative Suite 2 is strongly recommended. And if your computer won’t install it, well then… why not upgrade to a Mac G5 while you’re at it? Now that is a combination not to be beaten.
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Review by Peter Payne for Adobe Creative Suite Premium CS2 (Mac) [Old Version]
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If I had $1 for every time a CS2 app crashed and made expend real hours to redo work, I’d have about $10. And that’s enough for me to say, BEWARE of this set of applications! Adobe has allowed them to get too bloated, too slow, and the results are that all the programs (but principally GoLive, InDesign and Illustrator, in that order) are crashy and will quite suddenly, forcing you to expend the precious hours of your life redoing work you just finished. I cannot stress how disappointed I am in Adobe, and how distraught I am that we as a nation have allowed the only two competing companies to join, thus guaranteeing that there will be less quality and innovation in the future. In any event, do not buy the CS2 apps, Adobe does not deserve your support!If I had $1 for every time a CS2 app crashed and made expend real hours to redo work, I’d have about $10. And that’s enough for me to say, BEWARE of this set of applications! Adobe has allowed them to get too bloated, too slow, and the results are that all the programs (but principally GoLive, InDesign and Illustrator, in that order) are crashy and will quite suddenly, forcing you to expend the precious hours of your life redoing work you just finished. I cannot stress how disappointed I am in Adobe, and how distraught I am that we as a nation have allowed the only two competing companies to join, thus guaranteeing that there will be less quality and innovation in the future. In any event, do not buy the CS2 apps, Adobe does not deserve your support!