Adobe digital imaging solutions
Top Adobe Photoshop CS2 features for engineers and architects
- Industry-standard 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.
- Vanishing Point — Create perspective-accurate visualizations effortlessly with Vanishing Point, which slashes editing time by cloning, brushing, and pasting elements that automatically match the perspective of any image area.
- Smart Objects — Easily integrate vector artwork from Illustrator® CS2 and work smarter with nondestructive editing and transformations of Smart Objects, which preserve their high resolution, remain editable, and automatically update whether edits are made in Illustrator CS2 or Photoshop® CS2.
- Smooth image management with Adobe Bridge (formerly the File Browser) — Simplify image management with Adobe Bridge, the powerful hub that lets you capture, rename, browse, label, rate, search, and process your images and save them as collections.
- Special effects and filters — Create compelling designs with a suite of effects and filters, and easily apply textures by importing custom patterns or creating your own with the Pattern Maker.
- Powerful image enhancement — Reduce noise and remove JPEG artifacts for clearer, cleaner images and easily correct common lens distortions.
- Customizable menus and workspaces — Set up and save custom menus and workspaces, highlight new or commonly used menu items, and reduce onscreen clutter for easier access to the tools you need.
- Automated image processing — Automate tasks by setting up event-based scripts; efficiently process batches of images by recording a series of steps as an Action; and automatically populate templates with database information using Variables.
- Edit History Log — Automatically track all editing steps within your Photoshop files. Export the steps to a text file or save them as part of the image’s metadata.
- Image information tools — Precisely isolate regions of an image using advanced selection tools; extract pixel values in an area via the Histogram; and accurately measure a variety of attributes.
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| Image correction |
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| Adjustment layers for nondestructive editing |
yes |
yes |
yes |
| Shadow/Highlight |
no |
yes |
yes |
| Optical lens correction |
no |
no |
yes |
| Smart Sharpen |
no |
no |
yes |
| Noise reduction |
no |
no |
yes |
| Design and visualization |
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| Brush and filter effects |
yes |
yes |
yes |
| Text on a path |
no |
yes |
yes |
| Pattern Maker |
no |
yes |
yes |
| Vanishing Point |
no |
no |
yes |
| Image Warp |
no |
no |
yes |
| Smart Guides |
no |
no |
yes |
| Vector data support |
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| Support for vector objects |
yes |
yes |
yes |
| Smart Objects |
no |
no |
yes |
| Retouching |
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| Healing Brush |
yes |
yes |
yes |
| Spot Healing Brush |
no |
no |
yes |
| Image management |
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| File Browser |
no |
yes |
no |
| Adobe Bridge |
no |
no |
yes |
| Presentation |
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| PDF Presentation |
yes |
yes |
yes |
| Animations palette |
no |
no |
yes |
| Customization and automation |
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| Keyboard shortcut customization |
no |
yes |
yes |
| Menu customization and workflow presets |
no |
no |
yes |
| Event-based scripting |
no |
no |
yes |
| Image data support |
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| Comprehensive support for 16-bit images |
no |
yes |
yes |
| Floating-point pixel data support |
no |
no |
yes |
| 32-bit HDR support |
no |
no |
yes |
