First impressions of Photoshop CS2/Creative Suite CS2, without actually even pretending to be professional about it.
- stupid naming convention. I understood Photoshop 7, but CS2 is generic and fluffy. I notice the 'about screen' still calls it Photoshop 9.
- Don't really care for the icon either. What was wrong with the eyeball motif?
- the Bridge program is fairly sluggish, but this could just be because it has to create thumbnails of every image
- Seems slower, but then upgrading usually means new features, which means more processor cycles
- Unexpectedly, didn't have to reinstall my scanner drivers, so that saved me some time.
- Several new options for metadata and copyright info. Quickly hacked an action to do this mundane task for me.
- Really like the Spot healing brush tool. Simple to use, and fairly effective, in my brief usage.
- Also, like the ability to move the view (using spacebar shortcut), even in the full screen mode.
- Smart sharpen seems like a good idea, jury still out if it works better than unsharp mask.
- Red eye reduction hasn't been used yet, but could come in handy.
- Blur options expanded. Didn't use these often previously
- Photo filters are very cool/warm. Not sure if these are new to CS2, but Photoshop 7 certainly didn't have them. I'll probably use these a lot, especially since I haven't gotten around to purchasing any for my camera.
That's all at the moment, after using the software for about 4 hours. Haven't even launched InDesign or Illustrator yet.
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