Top Adobe Photoshop CS2 features for photographers

• Camera raw workflow enhancements — Process an entire photo shoot in a fraction of the time by simultaneously adjusting color, curves, cropping, and more — and continue working in Adobe® Photoshop® CS2! With support for a comprehensive range of digital cameras, Photoshop CS2 software lets you automatically adjust settings, convert to Digital Negative (DNG) format, and apply nondestructive edits to batches of images.
• 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.
• Spot Healing Brush — Effortlessly retouch photos — including 16-bit images — in a single click with the advanced power of the new Photoshop CS2 Spot Healing Brush.
• Advanced noise reduction — Polish digital photos with advanced noise correction in high-ISO shooting plus JPEG artifact reduction.
• Optical lens correction — Easily correct common lens distortions, such as barrel and pincushion, and fix chromatic aberrations and vignetting.
• Smart Sharpen — Easily counteract common image blurring with fine correction control based on the specific blur types: motion, lens, and Gaussian.
• 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.
• 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.
• One-click red-eye correction — Instantly neutralize red eyes with the one-click red-eye correction tool, which supports 16-bit images and lets you set pupil size and darkening level.

Graphic designers

The acknowledged image-editing standard for creative professionals, Adobe® Photoshop® software has long helped graphic designers bring their visions to life in advertisements, magazine layouts, billboards, and virtually every other medium.

Whether you need to create rich compositions of hundreds of layers, design graphics that incorporate high-resolution vector data from Adobe Illustrator® software, warp images with complete control, or manage color at the pixel level, you can count on Photoshop CS2 to help you deliver your best work. And with groundbreaking new features like Adobe Bridge and the revolutionary Vanishing Point, you can streamline the design process to get more done in less time.

Engineers and architects

Communicating design concepts and project status to clients, regulators, and colleagues can be challenging. Adobe® Photoshop® CS2 software, the professional image-editing standard, gives you groundbreaking new creative options to realize your vision and an unprecedented level of customization to streamline your workflow.

With new features like Vanishing Point, which enables you to edit in perspective, and Smart Objects, which maintain resolution of vector artwork, you can accomplish more in less time. Find out more about Photoshop CS2.

Scientists and healthcare professionals

While advances in digital imaging are bringing newfound benefits to scientific research and healthcare, new challenges have also arisen. Extracting information from growing volumes of digital images, maintaining an efficient workflow, and communicating your insights and ideas can be difficult. Adobe® Photoshop® CS2 software, the professional desktop digital imaging standard, now offers more powerful tools that help you see detail more easily, articulate complex concepts visually, and save time by automating common tasks.

Comprehensive support for 16-bit images and the new Smart Sharpen feature combined with nondestructive adjustment layers enable scientists and healthcare professionals to see and communicate detail without altering image data. Find out more about Photoshop CS2.