Adobe Creative Suite 2

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Adobe? Creative Suite 2

The complete design environment for print, Web, and mobile publishing

Adobe Creative Suite 2 combines the full versions of: ? Adobe Photoshop CS2 ? Adobe Illustrator CS2 ? Adobe InDesign CS2 ? Adobe GoLive CS2 ? Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional ? Adobe Bridge ? Adobe Stock Photos ? Version Cue CS2

Table of Contents Adobe Bridge............................. p. 2 Adobe Stock Photos................ p. 5 Help Center and Expert Support ........................................ p. 6 Consistent color ........................ p. 6 Consistent PDF creation......... p. 8 Adobe Photoshop CS2 ........... p. 9 Adobe Illustrator CS2 .............. p. 9 Adobe InDesign CS2 ............... p. 10 Adobe GoLive CS2 ................... p. 10 Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional ................................ p. 11 Adobe PDF reviews.................. p. 11 Version Cue CS2 ........................ p. 12

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What's New in Adobe Creative Suite 2

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, with new Version Cue CS2, Adobe Bridge, and Adobe Stock Photos. Delivering the next level of integration in creative software, Adobe Creative Suite 2 enables designers to realize their ideas anywhere -- in print, the Web, or mobile devices. Adobe Creative Suite 2 gives designers a cohesive and complete design environment that lets them fluidly transform their ideas into sophisticated, finished designs for print, the Web and mobile devices. This powerful, unified design environment also offers more consistent color across components of the suite, simplified and consistent Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) creation, and enhanced file collaboration and version management, all of which make it easier to share files and work more productively with colleagues and clients. Adobe Creative Suite 2 lets designers' productivity keep pace with their imagination as they breathe life into their creative visions.

Fuel your ideas. When creative ideas are flowing, the last thing any designer wants is to be slowed down by technical roadblocks. With Adobe Creative Suite 2, they won't be. Adobe Creative Suite 2 gives momentum to the creative process, with tight integration and innovative technologies that let creative professionals push their productivity to new heights. Manage, search for, and preview assets easily using the new Adobe Bridge visual file browser, with improved access to new Version Cue CS2; view, try, buy, and manage hundreds of thousands of stock images easily, without leaving Adobe Creative Suite 2, using the new Adobe Stock Photos service; enjoy more consistent color across components of the suite and create Adobe PDF files more easily and consistently. Adobe Creative Suite 2 opens a world of production efficiency, so creative professionals can focus on doing what they love best--designing beautiful content.

Design with agility. Adobe Creative Suite 2 delivers a tightly integrated set of professional design tools, enabling superb image-editing, illustration, page layout, Web and mobile authoring, and Adobe PDF workflow support. Offering the full, new versions of the world's leading design tools--Adobe Photoshop CS2, Illustrator CS2, InDesign CS2, GoLive CS2, and Acrobat 7.0 Professional--Adobe Creative Suite 2 gives designers such powerful new features as enhanced support for digital images captured in raw format; a new paradigm in vector graphics creation; significantly more productive page layout tools; and the capability to design, develop, and deploy mobile sites that conform to open industry standards. And because the components of Adobe Creative Suite 2 are so tightly knit and cohesive, creative ideas flow onto the page uncompromised and undiminished, just as designers envision them.

Work well with others. Designers have the vision, but they don't work in a vacuum. That's why Adobe Creative Suite 2 gives designers the tools they need to collaborate effectively with clients and colleagues. Features such as efficient and flexible electronic design reviews that now include reviewers who use the free Adobe Reader 7.0 software and powerful version control within Adobe Bridge using Version Cue CS2, afford tremendous time and cost savings during the design and print production process. Adobe Creative Suite 2 makes collaboration with clients and colleagues more efficient, more fun, and ultimately more supportive of the entire design process.

This document introduces the new features in Adobe Creative Suite 2, including high-level descriptions of the new features in Adobe Photoshop CS2, Adobe Illustrator CS2, Adobe InDesign CS2, Adobe GoLive CS2, and Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional. It concludes with pricing and availability, a description of what comes in the box, and system requirements. For detailed information about the new features in Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and GoLive CS2, as well as Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional and Adobe Stock Photos, please see the documents indicated in each respective section of this guide.

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Fuel your ideas

Adobe Creative Suite 2 helps remove technical roadblocks to the creative process so that designers can create artwork, pages, Web sites, and more with greater fluidity and ease. The key way in which Adobe Creative Suite 2 gives momentum to the design process is through the new Adobe Bridge visual file browser, which is a greatly enhanced version of the File Browser found in previous versions of Adobe Photoshop. Adobe Bridge not only allows creative professionals to quickly manage and locate assets but it also provides access to the new Adobe Stock Photos service and lets designers achieve more consistent color across Adobe Creative Suite 2. Finally, centralized and streamlined Adobe PDF creation is also a tremendous new productivity feature in Adobe Creative Suite 2.

Adobe Bridge visual file browser Adobe Bridge is the hub for productivity, imagery, and inspiration in Adobe Creative Suite 2. Accessible from within Photoshop CS2, Illustrator CS2, InDesign CS2, and GoLive CS2 as well as independently, Adobe Bridge allows designers to efficiently organize, browse, and locate the assets they need every day to create content for print, the Web, and mobile devices. Adobe Bridge keeps native PSD, AI, INDD, and Adobe PDF files, as well as other Adobe and non-Adobe application files, at designers' fingertips, and is a natural gateway to Adobe Stock Photos. With drag-and-drop ease, designers can place assets into their layouts as needed, preview them, add valuable metadata to them, and track them using Version Cue. Adobe Bridge also automates a variety of traditionally labor-intensive tasks with built-in scripts that work across components of the suite. An efficient file-management system that gives designers direct access to their creative assets as well as offers greater control over them, Adobe Bridge greatly expands the power of Adobe Creative Suite 2.

Accessing Adobe Bridge Designers often need to access assets when they're in the middle of creating an image composition in Adobe Photoshop, or maybe when they're designing a page in Adobe InDesign. They'll need a different background image, or a client's logo, or perhaps to import some text. When a designer is so fully engaged in being creative, even the few rote steps required to find and preview a necessary asset can slow their productivity to a crawl. So Adobe Creative Suite 2 makes it easy: designers can launch Adobe Bridge from within Photoshop CS2, Illustrator CS2, InDesign CS2, and GoLive CS2 and automatically jump to their home directory in the Bridge browser window, where they can locate the file they need.

Launch Adobe Bridge from the File menu in Photoshop CS2, Illustrator CS2, InDesign CS2, or GoLive CS2, or click the Browse button in the Control palette of those applications.

With a minimum of disruption to their creative flow, designers now have visual access to all of the files on their hard drive or network. To make more onscreen space available at any time, designers can toggle on a compact mode for Adobe Bridge, reducing it to a floating palette that can be accessed from any component of Adobe Creative Suite 2. This makes it easier to drag files out of Bridge and in layouts or comps.

Previewing assets The Adobe Bridge browser window features navigational and informational panes on the left and a preview area on the right. The pane in the upper left corner is where designers choose the location, such as their hard drive, a network folder, or a Favorites directory. As they navigate to the desired location, the preview pane on the right updates interactively, showing thumbnail previews of asset files if they've been embedded with the file.

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Previews in Adobe Bridge can be resized using the slider at the bottom of the window, and you can click a button to choose Thumbnails, Filmstrip, Details, or Versions and Alternates view.

Previews in Adobe Bridge are highly interactive and can be customized. They can be resized by simply dragging the slider at the bottom of the window. Designers can select from Details view, Filmstrip view, or Versions and alternates view, each of which displays the preview and asset's metadata in a different way. When a thumbnail is selected, the Preview pane offers some basic details, such as its file type and creation date and time; additional information, if available, appears in the Metadata pane at left. Metadata information also appears when you roll the cursor over any thumbnail. Panes can be resized for optimal viewing, and Adobe Bridge even supports previews of multipage Adobe PDF files.

Adobe Bridge displays previews of multipage Adobe PDF documents, as shown in this Filmstrip view.

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Adding and searching metadata Thanks to support for industry-standard XMP metadata, designers can add useful information to a file and view that information in Adobe Bridge without having to open the file. Metadata may include everything from digital image capture information such as ISO speed and aperture value to GPS data to copyright informations.

Adobe Bridge features extensive support for XMP metadata, including descriptive information, GPS data, digital camera data, and stock photo data.

With complete, up-to-date metadata information, designers can conduct complex searches based on metadata criteria to quickly find the assets they need. For example, they can search for all InDesign files that use a certain Pantone color, or a particular font. Then, when the designer locates the desired asset, he or she can open it in its originating application by double-clicking the thumbnail preview in Adobe Bridge. Bridge even launches Microsoft Office applications.

One-stop shopping with Adobe Stock Photos

Adobe Bridge lets designers search across a network and by multiple metadata criteria.

Adobe Stock Photos Availability At the time this document went to press, Adobe planned to make Adobe Stock Photos available for purchase in the following countries. This list, however, is subject to change before the launch of Adobe Creative Suite 2. For the final list, please visit at the time of ship of Adobe Creative Suite 2.

Australia Austria Belgium Canada China Denmark Finland France Germany Great Britain Hong Kong Ireland Italy Japan Mexico The Netherlands New Zealand Norway Portugal Singapore South Africa South Korea Spain Sweden Switzerland Taiwan USA

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One-stop shopping with Adobe Stock Photos Stock photography is a key component of professional page layouts and Web sites, but acquiring it has historically been a tedious task that involves visiting multiple Web sites, conducting time-consuming searches, losing track of images, and purchasing from several agencies for a single project. Enter Adobe Stock Photos, which makes the process much more convenient. Adobe Stock Photos, accessible from within Adobe Bridge, is an exciting new service to help get designers' creative juices flowing. Offering designers one-stop shopping for high-quality, royalty-free stock images from within the familiar Adobe interface, Adobe Stock Photos is an efficient and convenient way for creative professionals to view, try, buy, and manage stock images from some of the world's leading image libraries--or to simply get inspired.

Search and browse stock images Adobe Stock Photos lets creative professionals search for and browse stock images from a selection of premiere stock suppliers without ever leaving Adobe Creative Suite 2. With a document open in InDesign, for example, designers can jump to Adobe Bridge, seamlessly search collections from multiple stock suppliers, browse the results, and download low-resolution comps into their designs without missing a creative beat. Then they can rename the comps to be more intuitive for their own workflow, and Adobe Stock Photos will preserve the link to the original image for when the designer is ready to purchase the high-resolution version.

Adobe Stock Photos lets designers view, try, and buy stock images from some of the leading stock photo libraries.

Purchasing and managing stock images When their client approves the layout, the designer can purchase and download full-resolution images in a single transaction from within Adobe Creative Suite 2, even if they are buying images from more than one source. Because usage rights are centralized in Adobe Stock Photos, pricing is straightforward and terms and conditions are consistent, making the process easy to manage. Once the comps and/or high-resolution images are downloaded, they're accessible through Adobe Bridge like all other assets, and can be previewed, organized, and searched for easy retrieval and reuse. Images acquired through Adobe Stock Photos include extensive metadata information, which travels with the image and can be searched, customized, and accessed throughout Adobe Creative Suite 2. For more information about Adobe Stock Photos, see the Adobe Stock Photos Reviewer's Guide.

With Adobe Stock Photos, designers can download and purchase stock images from multiple suppliers in a single transaction.

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