RSSAdobe Set to Announce Photoshop CS2
By Ed Oswald and Nate Mook | Published March 27, 2005, 8:17 PM
BetaNews has learned that Adobe is planning to announce a major upgrade to its popular Photoshop image editing suite next Monday. Details slipped out in an accidental early posting of a press release, which has since been removed.
Dubbed Adobe Photoshop CS2, the new release promises better tools to fix common image problems such as red eye and blemishes, as well as updated support for raw, or uncompressed, images. The software is expected to start shipping in May.
Adobe says it added numerous features to Photoshop CS2 in response to requests from users and the changing needs of the digital imaging industry.
A new spot healing brush will fix blemishes, red-eye and distortion from camera lenses. Users will also be able to scale images with less quality loss than previous Photoshop versions.
A tool known as Vanishing Point will allow the user to recolor and transform objects in an image without altering its perspective. Image Warp, another new tool, enables a user to easily twist, warp or skew an image cleanly using preset functions, or with custom points.
A new version of Camera Raw, Adobe's plug-in for manipulating uncompressed images from digital cameras, supports modifying multiple raw files simultaneously. Adobe has also added batch processing that can be done without launching the Photoshop executable.
In an effort to more tightly integrate its Adobe Creative Suite components, Photoshop's File Browser has been renamed to "Adobe Bridge." The tool will allow a user to seamlessly move an image file between Adobe's various programs.
Adobe Bridge will also provide access to a new service called Adobe Stock Photos, which offers access to royalty-free stock images from five different providers.
The standalone version of Photoshop CS2 will cost $599 USD, with an upgrade available for $149 USD.
Adobe representatives were not available for comment by press time.
http://labnol.blogspot.c...es-next-version-of.html
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|First, I love Photoshop and most of Adobe's software.
One thing I hate though is Adobe's way of coming out with a $150 upgrade almost every year instead of giving the users a downloadable update with all of the "Minor" features in the new release.
I'm all for supporting a company but im feeling more like they are nickel and dimeing me at every turn they can. I have been on board since Photoshop's inception and think that alot of these "upgrades" were worth more like $50 then $150.
Just my 2cents though.
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|I'm honestly dissapointed with BetaNews on this one. I've been a long time visitor to the site and have really learned to enjoy the articles that get posted here. Even a complete noobie can tell you guys took this from Neowin and didnt give credit. They had the article posted well before you did, and you didnt even give credit, just a nice "BetaNews has learned".
Congrats guys
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|Right, because Neowin is the only one with access to Google's cache and people don't submit things to other sites.. ::rolleyes::
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|I agree... I love the program, but give us a few Freebies once inawhile.
Can I have more Please?
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|They need to include more things as bonus to attract more user.
Look at
Neat Image
http://www.neatimage.com/
Noise Ninja
http://www.picturecode.com/
as well as making easier to print digital photo on one paper with efficiently. now we need to do it manually.
and other improvements.
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|I imagine there will be many many more features than those listed in the Press Release.
What I want to know is why Adobe have pulled the release. The news is out now, so they might as well run with it.
Every thread on the Adobe forums which dares to mention CS2, gets pulled within minutes.
...unless of course it is all a ploy to get us to talk about it even more. Just like banning a pop song from the airwaves results in a Number One single.
Chris Birchall. (Photoshop fan)
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|check the press link - http://64.233.179.104/se...=en&lr=&strip=1
Amit - http://labnol.blogspot.com
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|From that article it seems like it was a goof that it was actually posted. The date on the article says April 4th, which is exactly one week from today. It was probably staged to go, but somehow got posted to the production site too early.
They will most likely officially run with the story next week Apr 4th, unless they decide that the goof is enough to release it now.
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|Anyone know if Adobe honors a competitor product in order to qualify for upgrade pricing? I presume not, since I couldn't find it anywhere on their site.
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|They don't.
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|Well, it's likely they don't offer it because they have nothing to gain from it. Photoshop is very widely used.. and they are the market leader. Competive Upgrades are usually offered by companies looking to gain market share. Adobe really doesn't need to.
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|Don't Really need to? or Really should to keep their customers happy? A happy customer is one who goes around barking up more business... an unhappy customer is one that complains about the software not being satisfactory and does not help in sales.
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|From what I've read so far, CS2 doesn't seem like a major upgrade. It looks more like a .1 upgrade then a full point upgrade. I'm hoping I'm wrong.
I find it strange that they pulled the press release. Given that the official release of CS2 is in May, you would think they'd want to take more then a month to generate interest.
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