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| Adobe Photoshop CS2 [OLD VERSION] | ![Adobe Photoshop CS2 [OLD VERSION]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41GZ0WT8G5L._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | From: Adobe
Category: Software
List Price: $649.00
Buy New: $278.98
You Save: $370.02 (57%)
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Avg. Customer Rating:  76 reviews
Sales Rank: 348
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows 2000, Windows Xp
Media: CD-ROM
Edition: Standard
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4
Dimensions (in): 9.5 x 2 x 7.8
MPN: 23102149
Model: 23102149
UPC: 718659450649
EAN: 0718659450649
ASIN: B00081I76A
Release Date: April 28, 2005
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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 A great achievement July 28, 2005
15 out of 21 found this review helpful
Photoshop is one of the great software products ever created. It has continued to evolve to match the needs of advanced digital photography, offering some really astonishing capabilities -- assuming that you have the time and necessary instructional materials. It has a steep learning curve.
Where Photoshop falls short is in ease of use. Along with features development, Adobe should focus on making the application simpler where possible. Even advanced users can benefit from simplicity. For instance, it could be much easier to crop photos to the conventional 3-to-2 proportion for printing and commercial processing. Adobe could adopt the kiosk method of visual cropping using a moveable box without eliminating the existing approach. It is especially bothersome to work a non-standard image into the 3-2 format, and many commercial processors automatically (and crudely) crop irregularly sized photos instead of fitting them entirely within the selected print size. Adobe needs to acknowledge the reality of every day use, and offer a simplified solution. The company is a bit slow in this department, as evidenced by how long it took to create a relatively efficient way to correct red eye.
There is always a group of users who defend software difficulty of use as they either profit from the time consumption (hourly billing), or it makes makes them feel important to gain mastery over something difficult. Adobe should ignore this minority and make Photoshop easier.
One nit that I pick with recent versions is that they have made the blur tool more clumsy. A high-pixel file need be viewed at 100 percent, or it is virtually impossible to see the effect of blurring. That wasn't necessary in the past, and it shouldn't be now.
Photoshop is a gem that Adobe can continue to polish and enhance.
Update: Adobe is working of a product calle Lightroom, which permits very easy cropping to precise sizes, such as 5 x 7, among many other features. I think the cropping capability should be part of Photoshop, and not require moving between two products. The combination of Photoshop, Lightroom, and Bridge presents a daunting combination of bloatware.
 Adobe Photoshop as dinosaur June 15, 2005
174 out of 201 found this review helpful
Adobe's insane pricing and licensing makes this product way too overpriced and inflexible for anyone except professionals. The laughable part is that you dont even get *reasonable* support for such premium pricing.
Every designer I know has at least 3 computers - work, laptop, and home desktop. The fact that Adobe insists that these people buy almost $2000 in licenses for one person to run this single application on all 3 is beyond arrogant. Even M$ Office lets you run on 3 PCs!
What is even more insulting then the price is the strategic deployment of features which are held back and then launched to incite almost annual upgrades, which cost more than the full versions of this product's competing products!
Additionally, the continuous lack of evolution in this product's UI (and lets be clear it is *POOR*) is amazing considering that so many of its users are UI professionals. When I fire it up it still smells like the version I ran on WFW 3.11.
The processing features are excellent, thats all that is keeping this product in position is its engineering team, because marketing, support, and UI are substandard.
As soon as Paint Shop Pro aquired layers it completely obliterated 95% of what Photoshop is used for daily in terms of productivity.
However, Corel has really taken the wheels off of Paint Shop Pro since its aquisition.
There is a lot of room in this space for competition to this product, M$ is looking to move into this market with Acrylic. Hopefully they will be successful and knock Adobe off its arcane high horse old-school marketing practices.
Its really sad when a company needs to be taught a lesson from M$ in humility!
 cheaper to buy 7 and upgrade June 14, 2005
37 out of 45 found this review helpful
CS2 is OK, but rather than pay full new price, why not buy PS 7.0 for $142 and upgrade to CS2 for similar $, ending up with CS2 for $300?
 If you want the best, this is it. June 8, 2005
12 out of 22 found this review helpful
First, being a frustrated user of Digital Image Suite 10, then a very happy user of Photoshop Elements 3 but wanting to have more, specially organizing pictures and advanced fixing. Now, I'm not only happy with my investment, but also amazed by the results obtained by working with Photoshop CS2. If you like to be proud of pictures you share with family/friends or sell, this is a must!
It is a pleasure applying changes to see nicer results than expected, the Spot Healing Tool works incredible well. WEB designing was also a wonderful surprise to me; it offers much more options than you think. My site now looks much better than lots of professional sites.
I have not used support at this time, so I can't say anything on that side.
It wasn't an easy deciding to spend this kind of money in software not going to be used for work, but I wanted the best for my hobby. I sure recommend this product, especially for pros because it is not very easy to use for beginners... but if they take the time to learn, they sure will end having amazing pictures.
 CS2 Installation Issues June 3, 2005
26 out of 28 found this review helpful
Installed CS2 Premium, registered the product. Then I realized I had a DOS icon for Adobe Acrobat. Double clicked and it said it wasn't installed. Reinserted the cd, installed Acrobat, then it wanted to go through the activation process. Wouldn't activate because the other products were activated and it thought I was pirating the product. Called Adobe Help Desk. Ruthy was stumped and had me call a tech support number that I had to PAY for! He told me to uninstall the whole product and reinstall. Uninstall took 189 minutes. Then tried to reinstall. Said Adobe Acrobat was already installed, but when I went to add remove programs in Windows, it says it is not installed. Called the Help Desk again. They tried again, couldn't help. Told me I could PAY and call tech support again. I am now installing CS back on my machine. This is the worst upgrade Adobe has put out. I am frustrated because it never installed correctly in the first place, but to get help, it is going to cost me more money.
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