So, Photoshop CS2 has been announced and with it we get a host of new features such as: Vanishing Point, Smart Object, Smart Sharpen, Image Warping, 32-bit support Merge to HDR, Lens Correction, Noise Reduction plus a lot of others under the bonnet. Along with these new features we also find a significantly enhanced version of Camera Raw and a completely new companion application called Adobe Bridge.

On news stands this month: Bruce Fraser and Jeff Schewe team up to write an authoritative cover article for the April/May issue of Photoshop User magazine. The six page article, Shooting in the RAW–the naked truth about advanced Camera Raw talks about controlling all the editing power and flexibility of Camera Raw without over-cooking your brain.

“Many photographers have come to enjoy the enormous flexibility that RAW provides over JPEG. When shooting RAW, the image is wide open for interpretation–a simple yank of some controls makes a vast difference to the rendering of your image.

But what are you supposed to pull and how do you decide what your image is supposed to look like?” –Bruce Fraser and Jeff Schewe

Like any new Photoshop release, Photoshop CS2 has plenty of new features and enhancements to old ones, but if I have to pick one single feature that has changed the way I use the program, it has to be the addition of a Curve tab in the Camera Raw plug-in. It may seem a small thing, but this feature has completely flipped the balance between the amount of time I spend in Camera Raw and the amount of time I spend in Photoshop. My friend and colleague Jeff Schewe has jokingly referred to Photoshop as a plug-in for Camera Raw. I can only say that never has a truer word been spoken in jest!

Current Photoshop CS users may not completely understand the policy regarding forward updates to Camera Raw and wheher or not new updates will work in Photoshop CS. The answer is that with the release of Photoshop CS2 and Camera Raw 3, all new updates to Camera Raw will only work in “currently shipping software” which means Photoshop CS2 (when it ships) and Photoshop Elements 3.0 or above. Camera Raw 2.4 is the last update for CR 2.x.

It should be noted that the free DNG Converter will continue to be updated to add support for new cameras released. The workaround for those people not using Photoshop CS2 & CR 3 will be to process raw files with the DNG Converter and then use Camera Raw 2.4 to open–since DNG is supported by Camera Raw 2.4.

Adobe has posted a video featuring a variety of top Photoshop experts and photographers talking about Adobe® Photoshop CS2®. The video and additional information about Photoshop CS2 is available at the Adobe digital imaging solutions page. See the video 6.5M(SWF: 1:30 min)

Also check out the Photoshop CS2 home page.

There’s also a Top New Photoshop CS2 Features page. Check out the System Requirements page of Photoshop CS2.

Adobe Camera Raw has been updated to version 3. Check out the updated Camera Raw page for more info.

Adobe Bridge, the new CS2 control center has a home page. See how Adobe Bridge serves as the hub for your Creative Suite projects. Take a tour of Bridge (SWF: 29k / 2:30 min).
 
 
 
 

Posted 12:01AM Eastern
(-5 GMT) April 4, 2005

Okay folks, this time it’s for real. . .

On Monday, April 4, 2005 Adobe is officially announcing Adobe® Photoshop® CS2. In fact, Adobe will be announcing and showing the entire Creative Suite 2 at the Adobe ideas conference, where leaders from design and publishing industry will come together to share their thoughts on industry trends and the impact of technology, and cutting-edge creative.

PhotoshopNews will be covering the event LIVE FROM NEW YORK!
Live coverage begins at 9:00AM Eastern time (GMT-5).

So, what’s new in Photoshop CS2? Well, there’s a lot:

Source: MacWorld
By Bruce Fraser

If you have a midrange or pro digital camera, you can probably produce images in the raw format. A raw file is a record of the data a camera’s sensor captures. Shooting raw beats shooting in JPEG format for several reasons, but to benefit from raw’s strengths, you have to edit images using the Adobe Photoshop CS Camera Raw plug-in (free with Photoshop CS). Here’s how. . .

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Press Release: SAN JOSE, Calif. — Feb. 7, 2005 — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced availability of an updated Adobe® Camera Raw plug-in that adds compatibility for six new camera models, bringing the total number of raw camera formats supported within Adobe Photoshop® CS and Adobe Photoshop Elements 3.0 to more than 70. In addition, Adobe announced expanded capabilities for the DNG Converter, which translates disparate raw photo formats into a single universal format, or digital negative, for long-term archiving.

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