Adobe Illustrator CS2 lets you realize your ideas quickly and powerfully. Instantly convert bitmaps to vector artwork and paint more intuitively. Save time with intelligent palettes and optimized workspaces. Take your graphics to the printed page, Web sites, video, mobile devices, and virtually everywhere you want to go. See for yourself how vector graphics have been reinvented -- and rediscover what you love about illustration. Use Adobe Bridge to browse and preview your creative assets, run automation scripts, access Adobe Stock Photos, and more Adobe Photoshop layer comp support - control open Photoshop files within Illustrator CS2 PDF/X support creates reliable, press-ready layouts.

• 3D Effects
  Turn 2D shapes into fully editable 3D objects by extruding and revolving paths. Add lighting and wrap images around 3D shapes to easily create objects such as packaging mock-ups.
• Advanced Typography
  Easily create and control type with over 100 OpenType fonts, paragraph and character styles, paragraph composition, underline and strikethrough, transparent effects, and more.
• Envelopes and Live Distortion
  Easily warp, liquefy, and distort artwork any way imaginable with envelopes and live distortion tools.
• Professionally Designed Content
  Jump-start your projects with more than 270 professionally designed templates and over 100 OpenType fonts, all included with Illustrator CS2.
• Production Automation
  Work at peak efficiency with timesaving tools like dynamic, data-driven graphics, robust scripting, action sets, and automated processing in Adobe Bridge.
• Integration with Your Favorite Applications
  Keep your work flowing with easy integration of your designs into other Adobe applications, as well as into Macromedia Flash (SWF), QuarkXPress, and Microsoft Office products.
• Enhanced Adobe PDF File Creation
  Create native Adobe PDF files, including multipage PDF files, so clients and others can easily review your artwork using Adobe Acrobat or free Adobe Reader software.
• Superior Web Graphics
  Easily create for the Web using vector-based slicing tools, expanded SVG import and export, Pixel Preview mode, expanded Adobe Photoshop export options, simplified SWF file export options, and more.
• Nearly Universal Graphic File Format Support
  Work with almost any type of graphic file--including PDF, EPS, SVG, Photoshop (PSD), TIFF, GIF, JPEG, SWF, and more.
• Superior Print Capabilities
  Get fast, consistent results with an intuitive interface that includes advanced control over separations, transparency flattening, Fit to Page, and new support for printing page tile overlaps.
• Gradient Mesh
  Simulate airbrush and watercolor effects by adding multiple colors and precisely controlling the transitions between colors.
• Symbolism Tools
  Enhance your artwork with additional design elements by spraying, scaling, colorizing, and adjusting the transparency of repeated symbols while keeping file sizes small.
• Flexible Brushes
  Add flair to paths with customized brushes. Choose from calligraphic, scatter, art, and pattern brushes.
• Live Effects
  Apply live effects, including the hand-drawn Scribble Effect, without affecting the underlying artwork, so you can edit at any time without starting over.
• Unlimited Transparency
  Expand your design options with blending modes and transparency effects similar to those in Adobe Photoshop software.
• Envelopes and Live Distortion
  Easily warp, liquefy, and distort artwork any way imaginable with envelopes and live distortion tools.
• 3D Effects
  Turn 2D shapes into fully editable 3D objects by extruding and revolving paths. Add lighting and wrap images around 3D shapes to easily create objects such as packaging mock-ups.
• Adobe Photoshop Filters
  Achieve a wide variety of effects by applying Adobe Photoshop filters as nondestructive live effects, included with the Photoshop Filter Gallery.
• Pen Tool
  Draw with precision using the Pen tool for complete control over anchor points and Bézier curves.
• Pencil Tool
  Draw onscreen as you would on paper with the Pencil tool. Edit paths by simply drawing a new line near the path you want to alter.
• Expanded Stroke Options
  Control the position of a stroke on a path by choosing centered, inside, or outside.
• Smooth and Erase Tools
  Quickly smooth unwanted bumps in a path or erase part of a path with the Smooth and Erase tools.
• Advanced Typography: Character and Paragraph Styles
  Apply formatting to individual characters, lines of type, or entire paragraphs with a single click using Character and Paragraph Styles.
• Paragraph Composition
  Optimize line breaks throughout an entire paragraph with minimal hyphenation and better word and letter spacing using the Every-Line Composer.
• Text Underline and Strikethrough
  Easily apply underlining and strikethroughs to any line of text, section of text, or text element.
• Transparent Text Efects
  Expand your typographic options using ghosted text, transparent drop shadows with soft edges, and other effects for transparent text.
• OpenType Fonts
  Simplify cross-platform font management and take advantage of alternate glyphs and extended character sets with more than 100 OpenType fonts, included free.
• Automatic Kerning and Optical Alignment
  Adjust the space between letters using automatic kerning, and hang punctuation outside the edges of a text box using optical alignment.
• Smart Quotes and Ligatures
  Add polish to your designs with automatic smart quotes and proper ligatures.
• Alternate Glyphs Palette
  Access a font's extended character set from the Alternate Glyphs palette.

More than just an upgrade to the world's leading imaging, design, and print production software, Adobe's Creative Suite 2 will change the way you harness your creativity. Creative Suite 2 is a fully integrated design and workflow environment that is engineered to help creative professionals work faster, smarter and with better results. Robust new tools in Photoshop CS2, tighter integration between Photoshop CS2 and Illustrator CS2, new object styles in InDesign CS2, and the revolutionary streamlining and collaboration offered by Adobe Bridge make Creative Suite 2 Adobe's biggest release yet. Other top features include the ability to establish color settings across all the components of Adobe Creative Suite, access to robust help services, and easier control of, and access to, historical and alternate file versions.

Adobe Photoshop CS2
New tools in Photoshop CS2 give you more creative options, better file handling and batch processing of digital camera RAW-format files, plus complete integration with Adobe Bridge (see below) for a seamless workflow. Designed to fit the way you work, Photoshop CS2 is only limited by your imagination. Top new features include:

The new Vanishing Point tool lets you edit and enhance images to match the source image's perspective.

• 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.

Adobe Illustrator CS2
Return to your love of vector drawing and illustration with Illustrator CS2. The big news here is a new bitmap conversion tool that lets you convert images to scalable, editable artwork in seconds. This version is designed to make it easy to find the tools you need quickly, while allowing you to customize your workspace to suit your way of getting things done. With Illustrator CS2 it's also easier than ever to take your graphics to the printed page, Web sites, video, mobile devices--virtually anywhere you want to go. Top new features include:

Quickly convert your bitmap images, such as scanned sketches, to scalable, vector-based paths.

• 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.

Adobe InDesign CS2
With new object styles and vastly-improved layer controls, InDesign CS2 offers print publishing professionals powerful new tools. Improved text and graphics handling and greater integration with other Adobe software is built in, too, allowing you to output your files with complete confidence and deliver projects faster. Top new features include:

Experiment with different designs by selectively displaying layers and layer comps in Photoshop files, as well as layers in Adobe PDF files.

• 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 recreates 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.

Version Cue CS2
Tired of confusing filename conventions and versioning nightmares? Bring an end to all of that with Version Cue CS2, the file-version manager that's built into the Creative Suite. Find files quickly using extensive search capabilities, create alternates to show as comps, and manage versions within Adobe Bridge. With Version Cue, the right file is always right at hand. Top new features include:

Version Cue CS2 makes it easy to find, link and share your design elements.

• 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.

Adobe Bridge
At the heart of Adobe Creative Suite 2 lies Adobe Bridge, the new navigational control center built to join together all of the Creative Suite components. (Adobe Bridge is also available separately in Adobe Photoshop CS2, Illustrator CS2, InDesign CS2, and GoLive CS2 software.) Based on the File Browser introduced in Photoshop 7.0, Adobe Bridge goes a step further by providing centralized access to your suite project files, applications, and color spaces, and other settings. With file organization and sharing, plus Adobe Stock Photos, at your fingertips all the time, Adobe Bridge is where you keep your ideas moving. Top features include:

Adobe Bridge CS2 intelligently links all of the elements of the Creative Suite together, so you can work more efficiently.

• 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.

Search over 230,000 images from multiple stock libraries at once from Adobe Bridge.

• 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.

Total Training Adobe Illustrator CS2 helps you build comprehensive skills that introduce the latest feature of Illustrator CS2. This set of lessons comes peppered with helpful, clever tips and professional techniques that prove effective for creative thinkers.

• Selecting and Transforming Paths
• Applying the Pen Tool
• Formatting Type
• Drawing Line Art
• Create Symmetrical Shapes
• Applying Liquify and Envelope Effects
• Working With Gradients
• Using Blends and Masks
• Transparencies
• Creating 3D Effects
• 50-minute Bonus Lesson: Get creative insight on graphic design from a talented professional in the field
• All project files included