Adobe gets creative

What’s New in Latest Adobe CS

Adobe is hoping to do two things with its brand-new Creative Suite 2. First, all of the suite’s applications—GoLive, Illustrator, InDesign, and Photoshop—are getting major upgrades, with promising interface tweaks and new tools for handling the latest graphics technologies. Second, Adobe is attempting to make CS more of a suite, integrating the apps with each other more tightly and providing a new, centralized tool—the Bridge—for managing your projects. (Match that, Quark and Macromedia.) We got an early look at the new suite, and here’s what we saw.

Adobe Creative Suite 2 Pricing

Adobe GoLive CS2	$399
Adobe Illustrator CS2	$499
Adobe InDesign CS2	$699
Adobe Photoshop CS2	$599
Adobe Creative Suite 2 Standard (A)	$899
Adobe Creative Suite 2 Premium (B)	$1,199

(A) Includes Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and Bridge.
(B) Includes Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, GoLive, Bridge, and Acrobat 7.0 Professional.

Adobe gets creative

What’s New in Latest Adobe CS

First look: Photoshop CS2

Photoshop CS2 includes a bunch of cool new tools, plus tighter integration with Illustrator and better support for 32-bit images and the camera RAW format.
First look: InDesign CS2

“Efficiency” and “productivity” may not turn heads. But what about “fewer keystrokes to accomplish repetitive tasks” or “fewer nights in the office”? That’s what Adobe’s aiming for with the latest InDesign.
First look: Illustrator CS2

Illustrator CS 2 packs some powerful new drawing tools, along with a new control palette that makes using the program much easier without altering any of the previous version’s palettes or keyboard commands.
First look: GoLive CS2

Building on GoLive’s designer-friendly interface and the Site Window-based site management, GoLive CS2 moves fully into the age of Cascading Style Sheets and mobile devices.
First look: Bridge replaces File Browser

The 2003 release of Photoshop CS brought with it File Browser, which could quickly scan folders full of image and PDF files and prioritize images with the Flag command. Creative Suite 2’s Bridge is the File Browser written large.