Adobe Photoshop CS2 software, the professional image-editing standard and leader of the Photoshop digital imaging line, delivers groundbreaking creative tools; unprecedented adaptability; and more efficient editing, processing, and file handling.

Features

Create
with unmatched power

• Timesaving file handling with Adobe Bridge
  
  Simplify file handling with Adobe Bridge, the next-generation File Browser,
  where you can process multiple camera raw images at once; resize, rate, and
  label thumbnails; quickly review images in Slideshow mode; search metadata;
  and more.


• Revolutionary Vanishing Point
  
  Achieve amazing results in a fraction of the time with the groundbreaking
  Vanishing Point, which lets you clone, paint, and paste elements that automatically
  match the perspective of the surrounding image area.


• 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.


• Advanced noise reduction
  
  Polish digital photos with advanced noise correction in high-ISO shooting
  plus JPEG artifact reduction.


• 32-bit High Dynamic Range (HDR) support
  
  Create and edit 32-bit images, and combine multiple exposures into a single,
  32-bit image with expanded range ?from the deepest shadows to the brightest
  highlights.

Customize with unprecedented adaptability

• Customizable workspaces and menus
  
  Get easier access to the tools you need with task-based presets, highlight
  new or commonly used menu items, and set up and save custom menus and workspaces.


• Enhanced automation
  
  Use the new Image Processor command to process camera raw images, and use
  new built-in Actions to prepare images for film and video


• Variables
  
  Instantly produce repetitive graphics with Variables, which automatically
  populate your design with data from spreadsheets or databases.



• Event-based scripts
  
  Accomplish more in fewer steps with event-based scripts that automatically
  activate at specified points in your workflow.


• Adobe Help Center
  
  Quickly get answers from the new, floating Adobe Help Center window with improved
  search features and convenient, task-based topics.

Work
with unparalleled efficiency

• 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.


• 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.


• 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.



• Instant video preview
  
  See your broadcast graphics as they'll appear to the audience, while you're
  still building them. With one click, you can preview your Photoshop CS2 images
  on a television monitor connected to your computer by IEEE 1394/FireWire/i.LINK.


• WYSIWYG font menu
  
  Quickly select typefaces from the font menu, which now displays a sample of
  each font