Adobe digital imaging solutions
Scientists and healthcare professionals
While advances in digital imaging are bringing newfound benefits to scientific research and healthcare, new challenges have also arisen. Extracting information from growing volumes of digital images, maintaining an efficient workflow, and communicating your insights and ideas can be difficult. Adobe® Photoshop® CS2 software, the professional desktop digital imaging standard, now offers more powerful tools that help you see detail more easily, articulate complex concepts visually, and save time by automating common tasks.
“Thanks to digital imaging and Photoshop, patient planning and treatment are more advanced and precise than ever.”
D.D.S.
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Comprehensive support for 16-bit images and the new Smart Sharpen feature combined with nondestructive adjustment layers enable scientists and healthcare professionals to see and communicate detail without altering image data. Find out more about Photoshop CS2.
Software and solutions
Photoshop CS2
What features make Photoshop CS2 a key tool for you? Find out about top new features, and see how the application has evolved to meet the needs of scientists and healthcare professionals.
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Plug-ins
Fovea Pro, by Reindeer Graphics
Turn Photoshop into a high-end scientific image analysis software package. Fovea Pro lets you automatically process folders that contain batches of images, yielding data files ready for further interpretation in spreadsheet or statistics programs.
DICOMaccess, by DesAcc, Inc.
With DICOMaccess, Photoshop can transparently read and write DICOM files.
FITS Liberator, by the European Space Agency, European Southern Observatory, and NASA
Craft beautiful astronomical images with this free plug-in, which makes astronomical images and spectra from famous telescopes accessible to astronomy enthusiasts.
Developers: Want to create Photoshop plug-ins for scientific and medical imaging? Visit the Adobe Photoshop Developer Center.
Success stories
David Malin Images
World-renowned astrophotographer brings objects in the universe to light using Adobe Photoshop CS2 software.
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Daniel L. Martinez, D.D.S.
A practitioner of aesthetic and restorative dentistry, Dr. Daniel Martinez uses Photoshop to improve patient care.
Puzzle masters
Researchers piece together early Buddhist manuscripts using Adobe Photoshop CS2 software.
West Semitic Research Project, USC College of Letters, Arts & Sciences
University of Southern California researchers trained in the study of ancient inscriptions use Photoshop CS2 to bring history to light.
Tutorials and other resources
White papers and tutorials
Optimum strategies for using Photoshop CS2 in scientific and medical imaging (PDF, 1.5M)
Demonstrate concepts through animation
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Communicate concepts or discoveries with animations you create in Photoshop CS2. You can use animated images to demonstrate how symptoms progress, asteroids move, or cells divide.
Using scripts to achieve more with Photoshop (PDF, 503k)
Scripts can help you perform tasks more quickly — or even bring new functionality to Photoshop CS2. You can also download scripts that other Photoshop users have written, or write your own!
Tips for enhancing color photomicrographs
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Learn about some of the most useful features in Photoshop CS2 for enhancing microscopic images, including layers, levels, color balance, and Smart Sharpen.
Books
Quick Photoshop for Research: A Guide to Digital Imaging, by Jerry Sedgewick
With this step-by-step guide, scientists can use Photoshop to make publication-quality scientific images.
Photoshop for Astrophotographers, by Jerry Lodriguss
This guide offers basic digital-correction tips and advanced enhancement techniques for working with astronomical photos in Photoshop.
Community
Photoshop organizations
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