Adobe digital imaging solutions
Top Adobe Photoshop CS2 features for scientists and healthcare professionals
- 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.
- Edit History Log — Easily document your work by automatically tracking all editing steps within Photoshop® files. Export the steps to a text file or save them as part of the image’s metadata.
- Full 16-bit image support — Work with greater precision, thanks to support for 16-bit images in all channels and layers and an expanded set of filters. New support for 32-bit data and floating-point pixel data provides even more power.
- Smooth image management with Adobe Bridge (formerly the File Browser) — Simplify management of your digital images with Adobe Bridge, the powerful hub that lets you capture, rename, browse, label, rate, search, and process your images and save them as collections.
- Image information tools — Precisely isolate regions of an image using advanced selection tools; extract pixel values for a region of interest via the Histogram; and measure a variety of attributes with the Measure tool and Info Palette.
- Smart Sharpen — Correct Gaussian blur, lens blur, and motion blur with advanced control.
- Animation palette — Show a progression of images by quickly creating dynamic GIF animations with the new Animation palette and Layer palette animation options.
- 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 — Easily record a series of steps as an Action that you can replay at any time to streamline your workflow. Automate tasks with event-based scripting. And automatically populate templates with database information using Variables.
- Sophisticated compositing — Rearrange and combine multiple layers of images into one composite, and take advantage of High Dynamic Range support to merge exposures of up to 32 bits into one perfectly lit shot.
- Advanced noise reduction — Reduce noise and remove JPEG artifacts for clearer, cleaner images.
- Dedicated RAM — Process extremely large files faster by allocating any RAM above.
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| Comprehensive support for 16-bit images |
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yes |
yes |
| Support for 300,000x300,000 pixels and up to 56 channels per file |
no |
yes |
yes |
| Floating-point pixel data support |
no |
no |
yes |
| 32-bit HDR support |
no |
no |
yes |
| Tracking and security |
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| Image passwords |
yes |
yes |
yes |
| Edit History Log |
no |
yes |
yes |
| Image management |
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| File Browser |
no |
yes |
no |
| Adobe Bridge |
no |
no |
yes |
| Image correction |
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| Adjustment layers for nondestructive editing |
yes |
yes |
yes |
| Smart Sharpen |
no |
no |
yes |
| Optical lens correction |
no |
no |
yes |
| Noise reduction |
no |
no |
yes |
| Image information tools |
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| Measure tool and Info palette |
yes |
yes |
yes |
| Histogram palette |
no |
yes |
yes |
| Export histogram data via script |
no |
no |
yes |
| Presentation |
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| Adobe PDF Presentation |
no |
yes |
yes |
| Match Color |
no |
yes |
yes |
| Animations palette and layer palette animation options |
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 scripts |
no |
no |
yes |
| Link templates and databases with Variables |
no |
no |
yes |
