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Adobe Creative Suite 2 on Tour

By Brent Phelps July 11, 2005

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Adobe_conferenceLast week I attended a seminar offered by Adobe titled “In Depth Look at Adobe Creative Suite 2” conducted by Noha Edell (Bus. Dev. Manager for Adobe) and Chris Converse (a designer hired by Adobe). I have been an active user of Photoshop for more than a decade and I was a bit skeptical about the improvements over CS1. Let me just say that during the ½ day seminar I was constantly on the edge of my seat as one amazing new feature was unveiled after the other.

From my notes here is what I found most interesting.

Adobe_bridge_1Adobe Bridge As you know the biggest improvement with the new Creative Suite is the Bridge. This program is basically a viewing program that allows you to view all of your adobe images and projects. The Bridge also has the Stock Licensing industry reeling because Adobe has incorporated a stock photo service that allows the user to search for images directly from the Bridge. The biggest problem here is that Adobe only has a few providers at this time (let’s hope they add more soon). Also, the Bridge has a built-in RSS reader which seems pretty handy.

Vanishing_point_1Adobe Photoshop The new features in Photoshop are freakin awesome! The most impressive by far is the Vanishing Point tool which allows you to define the Vanishing Point in any image to give you an amazing amount of perspective control when manipulating the image. Also interesting is the Healing brush, Lens correction tool, and Smart Objects. There is also a new feature called Smart Sharpening that will sharpen only the focused part of an image without messing with the soft focused parts of the image.

Adobe has clearly hit a home-run in my opinion with the new creative suite and everybody at the conference felt like it was the Fourth of July as we watched the fireworks light up the screen. It’s definitely worth the cost of the upgrade. Adobe is offering a discount for those who attended the conference at http://www.adobe.com/products/creativesuite/rebate.html

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