The complete design environment for print and Web publishing
Product Information
Adobe Creative Suite 2 is a unified design environment that delivers the
next level of integration in creative software. New features and tighter
integration among suite components simplify creative and production tasks,
enabling you to work more efficiently than ever before. Version Cue CS2 includes
enhancements in file versioning and review management, while other new features
like Adobe Bridge, Adobe Stock Photos, color consistency, and unified Adobe PDF
file creation offer greater productivity and collaboration.
Includes
- Adobe Photoshop CS2
- Adobe Illustrator CS2
- Adobe InDesign CS2
- Version Cue CS2
- Adobe Bridge
- Adobe Stock Photos
Product Features
Image editing with Adobe Photoshop CS2
Revolutionary Vanishing Point
Achieve amazing results in a fraction of the time with the groundbreaking
Vanishing Point, which lets you clone, brush, and paste elements that
automatically match the perspective of any image area.
Multiple layer control
Select and move, group, transform, and warp objects more intuitively by
clicking and dragging directly on the canvas. Easily align objects with Smart
Guides.
Smart Objects
Perform nondestructive scaling, rotating, and warping of raster and vector
graphics with Smart Objects. Even preserve the editability of high-resolution
vector data from Adobe Illustrator software.
Multi-image digital camera raw file processing
Accelerate your raw file workflow with simultaneous processing of multiple
images while you continue working. Import images into your choice of formats,
including Digital Negative (DNG); enjoy automatic adjustments to exposure,
shadows, and brightness and contrast; and much more.
Image Warp
Easily create packaging mock-ups or other dimensional effects by wrapping an
image around any shape or stretching, curling, and bending an image using Image
Warp.
Drawing and illustration with Adobe Illustrator CS2
Live Trace
Quickly and accurately convert photos, scans, or other bitmap images to
editable and scalable vector paths with the Live Trace feature.
Live Paint
Apply color to any region or edge and use overlapping paths to create new
shapes with the Live Paint tool, which intuitively colors artwork and
automatically detects and corrects gaps.
Control palette
Discover new features and find existing features faster in the
context-sensitive Control palette. Accessing selection-based tools from a single
location eliminates the need for multiple palettes.
Custom workspaces
Work more efficiently and optimize your screen area using custom workspaces
that display only the palettes you need for a specific task. Save, share, or
access any workspace at any time or use workspace templates.
Photoshop layer comp support
Control the visibility of layer comps in linked, embedded, or opened
Photoshop files from within Illustrator.
Page layout with Adobe InDesign CS2
Object styles
Apply and globally update object-level formatting more efficiently using
object styles. Save a wide range of graphic, text, and frame-level attributes as
object styles to create more consistent designs and speed up production tasks.
Adobe Photoshop and Adobe PDF layer support
Selectively display layers and layer comps in Photoshop files, and layers in
Adobe PDF files, to experiment with different design options or use multiple
variations of a file in your layout — all while linking to a single file.
InDesign snippets
Easily export InDesign objects as snippets, which can be shared with
colleagues or reused in other documents. When you place or drag a snippet into a
layout, InDesign re-creates the original objects, their formatting, and their
relative positioning on the page.
Adobe InCopy CS2 assignments
Assign only the elements of a document that an editor using Adobe InCopy®
CS2 software needs to work on while you're designing the rest — whether that's
specific frames on a page, frames on one or more spreads, or all the frames in a
document.
Save backwards to InDesign CS
Export your InDesign CS2 document to the InDesign Interchange (INX) format and
open it in InDesign CS for sharing with people still working in the previous
version.
Web design with Adobe GoLive CS2
Enhanced live rendering
Preview changes to Web and mobile content in a real-time, integrated engine
built on the Opera® browser that supports Small-Screen Rendering (SSR).
Simple visual tools to build and edit CSS-based pages
Build Web pages that conform to open standards using innovative new visual CSS
workflows based on the CSS Editor and CSS prebuilt block objects.
Visual CSS authoring for mobile devices
Easily author and validate standards-compliant CSS content for mobile devices
using simple visual tools.
Visual SVG-t inspection and authoring for mobile
View SVG-t content in split-view interfaces, enabling art tree, source, and XML
outline views and access to an animation scrubbing timeline for rapid
development.
Total site management
Track and manage everything in your site, from assets to links, uploading
content using Secure FTP and WebDAV via SSH or SSL. Easily synchronize local and
remote files.
Client review and print output with Adobe Acrobat
7.0 Professional
Inclusive electronic reviews
Use Acrobat 7.0 Professional to enable anyone with free Adobe Reader® 7.0
software to add comments to Adobe PDF files during design reviews.
Improved preflighting of Adobe PDF files
Check for problems in Adobe PDF files using the improved preflighting tool —
which now supports droplets for automation — and share preflight reports as
comments.
Powerful print production tools
Correct common problems in Adobe PDF files — such as converting colors,
previewing separations, remapping spot colors, flattening transparency, and
fixing hairline rules — without having to re-create the file.
Ink coverage, rich black detection, and overprint warnings
Minimize prepress errors with new warnings for total ink coverage, rich black
detection, and overprints.
Support for the latest standards
Create Adobe PDF files that are compliant with the PDF/X-1a:2003 and PDF/X-3:2003
print production standards, used for prepress document exchanges, and that
include JDF product definitions with details about the jobs you're submitting
for print production.
File sharing and versioning with Version Cue CS2
Productivity made simple
Find files fast, track versions across applications, link files together, and
share them in creative collaboration without fear of overwriting someone else's
work.
Shared project information
Actively track the status of project files and enable this information to be
easily shared across workgroups.
Simplified sharing for small workgroups
Easily share files with others within the Version Cue Workspace and keep your
files safe without fear of them being overwritten. View the status of each file
to know who is working on what file.
Automatic file naming
Say good-bye to awkward filenames such as
"brochure_final_final3.indd." Instead, you can name a file to suit
your preferences and let Version Cue handle the version tracking without the
need for a naming convention.
File version notification
Receive helpful reminders while updating versions or placing photos and
illustrations in layouts.
File browsing and organizing with Adobe Bridge
Organized assets
Quickly organize, browse, locate, and preview the assets you need every day —
Photoshop images, Illustrator graphics, InDesign layouts, Adobe PDF files,
GoLive Web pages, and a variety of standard graphics files — with visual
previews and scalable thumbnails as you work.
Project and file sharing
Work collaboratively and access multiple versions as well as alternate
renditions of your files through Version Cue CS2 in Adobe Bridge. Actively track
the status of project files and enable this information to be easily shared
across workgroups.
Accessibility anywhere
Jump to Adobe Bridge from within Photoshop CS2, Illustrator CS2, InDesign CS2,
or GoLive CS2, work in it as a standalone application, or have it float onscreen
as a palette.
Powerful file searching
Search for files on a hard drive or across a network using extensive metadata
information, including attributes such as all files that use a certain PANTONE®
color or set of fonts.
Convenient access to stock photos
Browse and search royalty-free images from multiple stock photo agencies using
Adobe Stock Photos in one convenient, familiar location. Purchase images from
several agencies in a single shopping cart, and manage your imagery without ever
leaving Adobe Creative Suite 2.
Royalty-free images with Adobe Stock Photos
Fast image searching
Search over 230,000 images from multiple stock libraries at once from Adobe
Bridge. Adobe Stock Photos tracks your search path automatically, so returning
to recent searches is easy.
Hassle-free image creation
Double-click comp images to open watermark-free versions directly in Photoshop.
Or drag and drop images from your favorite folders into InDesign or Illustrator.
Simple image management
Don't worry about tracking image ID numbers. The Adobe Stock Photos service
automatically retains the data associated with each comp image — even after
editing.
Instant purchases
Purchase directly from within the document containing your comp images. Buy all
your images at once — even if they originate from multiple providers.
Macintosh Requirements
- PowerPC G4 or G5 processor
- Mac OS X v.10.2.8 through v.10.4 (10.3.4 through 10.4 recommended; G5
requires v.10.3 or later), Java Runtime Environment 1.4.1
- 384MB of RAM to run any one creative application with Adobe Bridge and
Version Cue Workspace
- Additional RAM required to run multiple applications simultaneously (512MB
to 1GB recommended)
- 3GB of available hard-disk space to install all applications (installation
of common files requires at least 1GB on primary hard disk)*
- 1,024x768 monitor resolution with 16-bit video card (24-bit screen display
recommended)
- CD-ROM drive
- For Adobe PostScript printers: PostScript Level 2 or PostScript 3
- Internet or phone connection required for product activation
- QuickTime 6.5 required for multimedia features
- Broadband Internet connection required for Adobe Stock Photos and
additional services (The Adobe Stock Photos service may not be available in
all countries, languages, and currencies and is subject to change. Use of
the service is governed by the Adobe Stock Photos Terms of Service.
