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.

Based on powerful and professional photo editing software, Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0 helps you edit and share your photos easily and conveniently. Ideal for home users and hobbyists, Photoshop Elements 4.0 provides all the tools you need to edit and enhance photos while expressing your creativity.

Instantly fix common flaws with tools that automatically correct skin tone, lighting, color, and more.

Easily find and view photos using keyword tags.

This version comes complete with Scrapper's Guide.

Examples of what you can do with this bundle.

Editing tools let you correct common photo flaws, such as lighting, skin tone, color and contrast. Even red eye can be corrected automatically as new photos are downloaded. When making changes to color, you can compare a range of color variations side by side with the original to select the option that looks the best. You can also instantly see the changes you make with before and after views in Quick Fix mode. Photoshop Elements 4.0 can divide scanned photos, so you can scan several photos at the same time and they will be automatically divided, straightened, and saved. Rotating and cropping photos is simple with the touch of a but ton.

If you want more control over the look and feel of your photos, you can select specific areas of the photo to retouch manually. Use the Spot Healing Brush or He aling Brush to brush away flaws, unwanted objects, or wrinkles. Additionally, you can control color temperature, tint, shadows, highlights, and exposure. Enhance photos with tools to add depth, shadows, and glow, or convert photos to black-and-white or sepia tones. Apply colored filters that mimic real-world photograph y effects, simulate the look of a painting with special tools, or add surreal effects like warping, twisting, and pulling. You can even make composite photos an d add special effects, text, graphics, and shapes for fun and exciting collagesor panoramas. And if you demand precise control over the final product, how-to g uides are included to teach you more in-depth techniques and advanced editing options.

Sharing photos is easy with a variety of options. It's simple to make customizable slideshows that feature special effects like zoom, pan, transitions, captions, narration, and music from your own digital audio library. Adobe Photoshop Services includes a personal online photo album that lets you share photos with frie nds and family around the globe, and even allows others to order prints or hard-bound photo books with just one click. Make animated GIFs for the Web and preview them in Photoshop Elements. If you want to email photos, you can now embed photos directly in the email and include colorful backgrounds and frames. Photos ca n be sent to mobile phones or viewed on a Palm OS handheld. Slideshows can also be viewed on your home television via your home network on video CD and you can control the show with a TV remote.

Organize photos the way you want by using keyword tags. After you've tagged a photo with your own keywords, you can then click on any of these tags to view phot os by place, people, or topic without having to spend time browsing through all your photos. Photoshop Elements 4.0 will also instantly find all photos that con tain faces, so that you tag photos of friends and family quickly and easily. Or you can browse photos by date including viewing photos taken from any specified time period, which makes seeing all the photos from, say, your family vacation quick and easy.

New features in Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0:

• Customizable slide shows
• Retouch specific areas
• Automatic red eye elimination
• Share photos online
• Realistic skin tones
• Isolate objects from backgrounds
• Find and sort photos by face
• Order prints or hard-bound photo books online with one click
• View photos on your TV
• Use Folder View to access photos or add, delete and move folders
• Quick-launching Editor mode

Photoshop CS2 is the new Professional standard in Desktop Digital imaging. Its groundbreaking creative tools help you achieve extraordinary results. With more creative options, a more custom-fit Photoshop for the way you work, and more efficient File handling, you can stretch your imagination and let the ideas flow. Advanced noise reduction for high-ISO shooting plus JPEG artifact reduction 32-Bit High Dynamic Range (HDR) support Customizable workspaces and menus for easier access to task-based presets and custom menus Spot Healing Brush retouches in a single click One-click red-eye correction lets you set pupil size and darkening level.

Photoshop CS2 offers a huge array of exciting new features designed to help artists and creative professionals in all fields stretch their imagination and increase their work and creative efficiencies:

• 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.
• Nondestructive Image Correction: Improve the color, contrast, and dynamic range of any image using a comprehensive set of professional correction tools and nondestructive adjustment layers, which display corrections while preserving the original.
• Full 16-bit and New 32-bit Image Support: Work with absolute precision thanks to support for 16-bit images in all channels and layers. Create and edit 32-bit images, and take advantage of High Dynamic Range, 32-bit support.
• Advanced Noise Reduction: Reduce noise and remove JPEG artifacts for cleaner images.
• Customizable Workspaces and Menus: Get easier access to the tools you need with task-based presets, highlight new or commonly used menu items, and even set up and save custom menus and workspaces.
• Web Animations: Quickly create dynamic GIF animations directly within Photoshop CS2 by taking advantage of the new Animations palette and layer palette animation options.

Upgrade only; Previous installation required

Multiple layer control for selecting, moving, grouping and transforming objects intuitievly Advanced noise reduction for high-ISO shooting plus JPEG artifact reduction 32-Bit High Dynamic Range (HDR) support Customizable workspaces and menus for easier access to task-based presets and custom menus Spot Healing Brush retouches in a single click One-click red-eye correction lets you set pupil size and darkening level

Deke McClelland, a Photoshop Hall of Famer, addresses realworld situations with interactive lessons on the essentials of Photoshop - plus offers tips on using professional tools for adjusting layers and applying effects. Over 18 hours of tutorials to choose from! Also includes stock photography, courtesy of PhotoSpin, Inc. and iStockphoto, Inc. Includes 3 DVD's.

Product Description
Total Training Adobe Photoshop CS2 is the indispensable tool for mastering Adobe's flagship program. Discover just how much you can do with the software, and how easy it can be -- once you study under an expert, learning the tricks and techniques they use.
Lessons Include:

• Rotation and cropping, basic color correction, red-eye removal, cloning and selection tools
• Working with layers and styles, plus blending, masks and channels
• Mastering tools like camera raw, working with levels, curves and shadows
• Applying effects and filters
• Using the new Vanishing Point feature to paint & edit in 3D
• Exploring Photo Objects to revise photos by transforming and editing layers non-destructively
• Bonus Material: FREE bonus imagery from iStockPhoto and Photospin
• All project files included

This training provides a comprehensive hands-on view of Adobe Photoshop CS2, with an emphasis on new features; the preparation of web-ready graphics; and the animation and video-ready functionality of Photoshop. Travel imagery provided by Adobe Certified Photoshop Instructor Steve Weinrebe will be used to guide you through a tour of the Photoshop CS2 interface, and its powerful new features like Bridge, Vanishing Point, Smart Objects, Lens Correction, Warp, and Video Actions. As you optimize the color photographs provided on this disc and create a stunning interactive web site, you will review Photoshop fundamentals like tools, palettes, and filters. You will learn the intuitive, richly featured animation tools of Photoshop, import vector graphics, and create and preview animation for the web. Finally, you will input and output video, and explore the many automated and embedded features of Photoshop that allow you to prepare still images for video.