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Ten design tasks only possible with Creative Suite 2 Premium

1. Browse and rank dozens or even hundreds of photos and other assets with the Adobe® Bridge file browser; then sort those assets based on your rankings to quickly zero in on the ones you most want to use in a client project.
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2. Search hundreds of thousands of royalty-free images from top libraries using Adobe Stock Photos, a new service available through Adobe Bridge. Download unwatermarked comps for client review, and then quickly purchase the images you want.
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3. Quickly and accurately convert photos, scans, or other bitmap images to editable and scalable vector graphics using the new Live Trace feature in Adobe Illustrator® CS2.
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4. Clone, paint, and paste elements that automatically match the perspective of the surrounding image area using the new Vanishing Point feature in Adobe Photoshop® CS2.
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5. Apply and globally update object-level formatting using efficient new object styles in Adobe InDesign® CS2. Save a wide range of graphic, text, and frame-level attributes as object styles to create more consistent designs and speed up production tasks.
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6. Build web pages that conform to open standards using innovative new visual CSS workflows based on the CSS Editor and prebuilt CSS block objects.
7. Collaborate more freely with your colleagues on design files through Version Cue® file management, which enables you to easily track versions, find files, and manage alternates without fear of overwriting each other's work.
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8. Make the most of creative tools designed to work together at every level — from their common interfaces, palettes, and shortcuts to your ability to place native Photoshop, Illustrator, and Adobe PDF files in InDesign and Adobe GoLive®.
9. Synchronize color settings in one click across Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign, so your color artwork looks consistent onscreen no matter where you're working.
10. Consistently prepare reliable Adobe PDF files using presets that are shared across all components of Adobe Creative Suite® 2 — InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Adobe Acrobat®, and GoLive.
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• Integration across components
  Never before has it been so easy to work with all your favorite design tools. Use Adobe® Bridge to synchronize color settings across components of Adobe Creative Suite® 2 Premium and enjoy more consistent generation of Adobe PDF documents. Creative Suite 2 helps you break down design barriers and work more productively.
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  • Learn more about Adobe Stock Photos
  • Learn more about color consistency in Creative Suite 2
• File-sharing and versioning with Version Cue
  Now more intuitive, visual, and robust, Version Cue® CS2 lets you find files fast, track versions across applications, link files together, and share them in creative collaboration without fear of overwriting someone else's work.
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  • The Version Cue CS2 productivity benchmark (PDF, 196k)
  • Using Adobe Bridge and Version Cue CS2 to streamline your workflow (PDF 2.7M)
• Image editing with Adobe Photoshop
  Adobe Photoshop® CS2 offers new levels of power, precision, and control with an exciting combination of revolutionary new features and next-generation enhancements, including the new Vanishing Point feature and enhanced support for camera raw.
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  • See Vanishing Point in action (QuickTime, 12.7MB / 3:22 min)
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• Drawing and illustration with Adobe Illustrator
  Adobe Illustrator® CS2 puts industry-standard drawing tools at your fingertips and offers an entirely new paradigm for creating vector graphics. New features such as Live Trace and Live Paint give designers new freedom to create content for print, the web, and mobile devices.
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  • Creating vector content using Live Trace (PDF, 1.7M)
  • Find out more about custom workspaces in this Total Training™ video tutorial (MOV: 3.3M).
• Page layout with Adobe InDesign
  Join the growing number of professional graphic designers and publishers who are streamlining their productivity and enhancing the visual quality of their page layouts with Adobe InDesign® CS2. This latest version delivers such innovative features as object styles and InDesign Snippets to nurture the creative process while increasing production efficiency.
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  • See object styles in action (QuickTime: 6.1MB / 2:41 min)
  • See InDesign snippets in action (QuickTime: 5.8MB / 2:34 min)
• Web and mobile design with Adobe GoLive
  Enjoy standards-based web and mobile authoring as well as innovative new tools for building web and mobile content and tight integration with other components of Creative Suite 2 in Adobe GoLive® CS2. Build visually rich web pages using new, intuitive CSS workflows, and preview changes to web and mobile content in real time.
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  • See visual CSS authoring in action (QuickTime: 4.3MB / 1:58 min)
  • See enhanced live rendering in action (QuickTime: 4.1MB / 1:51 min)
• Client review and print output with Adobe Acrobat Professional
  Collaborate more effectively, and reliably prepare designs created in other components of Creative Suite 2 for print using Adobe Acrobat® 8 Professional. Expand the circle of review participants by using Acrobat Professional to enable anyone with free Adobe Reader® 7.0 or 8 to participate in reviews.
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Great reasons to upgrade to Adobe Creative Suite 2

Adobe® Creative Suite® 2.3 Premium software is a unified design environment that combines full versions of Adobe Photoshop® CS2, Illustrator® CS2, InDesign® CS2, GoLive® CS2, and Acrobat® 8 Professional software with new Version Cue® CS2, Adobe Bridge, and Adobe Stock Photos. Creative Suite 2.3 Premium also comes with Dreamweaver® 8, the industry-leading web development tool.

Components of Creative Suite 2 Premium include:

Adobe Photoshop CS2

Enjoy greater precision and control over images in Photoshop CS2 with new features such as Vanishing Point and multiple layer selection.

Adobe Illustrator CS2

Create editable and scalable vector artwork in Illustrator CS2, now with advanced painting, drawing, and type tools.

Adobe InDesign CS2

Create pages in InDesign CS2 using innovative features such as object styles and flexible production controls for high-quality, cross-media output.

Adobe GoLive CS2

Take your work as far as you want to go by creating websites or designing content for mobile devices in GoLive CS2.

Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional

Reliably create, combine, and control Adobe PDF documents for easy, more secure distribution, collaboration, and data collection.

Version Cue CS2

Now more intuitive, visual, and robust, Version Cue CS2 lets you find files fast, track versions across applications, link files together, and share them in creative collaboration without fear of overwriting someone else's work.

Adobe Bridge

Efficiently organize, browse, locate, and preview the assets you need every day from within the new Adobe Bridge visual file browser.

Adobe Stock Photos

Browse royalty-free images from multiple stock photo agencies using Adobe Stock Photos. Purchase and manage your imagery without ever leaving Adobe Creative Suite 2.

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