Photoshop CS & CS2 Features

Photoshop CS

Top Features for Photographers:

• Professional toolset: create original images or modify photos using a full assortment of painting, drawing, and retouching tools.
• Color correction: improve the color, contrast, and dynamic range of any image with a comprehensive set of professional color-correction tools.
• Improved File Browser: quickly preview, tag, and sort images; search and edit metadata and keywords; and automatically share batches of files from the improved File Browser.
• Comprehensive 16-bit support: perform more precise editing and retouching with expanded support for 16-bit images in core features, including layers, brushes, text, shapes, and more.
• Healing Brush: effortlessly remove dust, scratches, blemishes, wrinkles, and other flaws with the Healing Brush.
• Integrated digital camera raw file support: get truer, higher-quality output by working with the complete raw data files from most major digital camera models.
• Match Color command: achieve a consistent look between package shots, fashion photos, and more by instantly matching the color scheme of one image to another.
• Histogram palette: monitor changes to your image in the Histogram palette, which dynamically updates as you make adjustments.
• Shadow/Highlight correction: quickly improve the contrast of over- or under-exposed areas of an image while preserving the overall balance of the photo.
• Crop and Straighten command: Scan multiple images at once and let Photoshop automatically straighten and save each image as an individual file.

Top Features for Web Designers:

• Enhanced ImageReady user interface: create and modify Web designs faster with multiple object selection, object grouping, and smart guides.
• Improved Photoshop integration: enjoy quicker, more seamless integration between Photoshop and ImageReady, plus automated file saving and common commands, tools, and shortcuts.
• Image slicing: slice complex, layered images and apply appropriate format and compression settings to each area before exporting as an HTML table.
• Variable data support: easily import database and spreadsheet information to automate the production of Web graphics.
• Macromedia Flash (SWF) file export: use ImageReady CS to create Macromedia Flash (SWF) animations, complete with vector artwork and variable text.
• Animated GIF creation: turn layered Photoshop or Illustrator files into compact GIF animations in a few short steps.
• Web Content palette: create and edit rollovers and other interactive Web elements more easily using the new Web Content palette.
• Layers-as-files export: optimize and export individual layers as separate files for use in Macromedia Flash (SWF) animations and dynamic HTML.
• Weighted optimization: smoothly vary compression settings using channels to display higher-quality results in critical image areas.
• Streamlined HTML output: create leaner, more easily edited HTML with new controls for nested tables, XHTML, and more.

Photoshop CS2

Smooth File Handling with Adobe Bridge
Simplify file handling with Adobe Bridge, the next-generation file browser. Students can process multiple camera raw images at once; resize, rate, and label thumbnails; quickly review images in Slideshow mode; search metadata; and more.

Vanishing Point
This revolutionary technology lets you produce amazing results in a faction of the time. You can confidently clone, brush, and paste elements that automatically match the perspective of any image area.

Image Warp
Students can easily create packaging mock-ups or other dimensional effects by wrapping an image around any shape or stretching, curling, and bending an image using the Image Warp tool. Faculty
and students will embrace this new feature, which lets them add dimensionality to their creations without using complex 3D software.

Advanced Noise Reduction
Give your work a professional look by polishing digital photos and removing JPEG artifacts with advanced noise reduction. Now you can produce images that look great for advertisements, brochures, posters, magazines, newspapers, Web sites, presentations, and much more.

Multiple Layer Control
Select and move, group, align, transform, and warp objects more intuitively by clicking and dragging directly on the canvas. Now it's easier for students to work with complex, layered images.

Tile Selected Windows

To tile just a subset of your open programs (at least in Windows XP), click on the taskbar button for the first program you want to tile, then Ctrl-click on the button for the second program you want to be able to see. Both taskbar buttons should remain selected. Right-click on the second taskbar button and select Tile Windows Horizontally or Tile Windows Vertically.

Edit the SendTo Menu

Open:
C:\Documents and Settings\username\SendTo\ (it is hidden)

Copy shortcuts to folders and programs you would like to add to the menu.

Rename the Recycle Bin

If you (like me) would like to be able to rename the Recycle Bin to something else (Trash, Waste, Shredder, etc) then this tweak will make it easy to do so.

Open up your favorite plain text editor (notepad, for example) and copy the following text into a new file:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}\ShellFolder]
"Attributes"=hex:50,01,00,20
"CallForAttributes"=dword:00000000


Now save this text file as a .reg file, such as "Rename Recycle Bin.reg" and put it wherever you like. Double click on the file, and when it asks you if you want to import it into the registry, choose Yes. You'll notice a new option in the right-click menu to Rename the Recycle Bin. You can also rename it by highlighing the Bin and hitting F2, or by highlighting it and clicking on the file name (just like renaming any other file.

If you want to turn off this new feature, make another .reg file with the same content as above, but change the first number in the "Attributes"=hex: line from 50 to 40 and import that file into the registry.

Turn off clicking tick sound in explorer

Here's how to turn off the annoying sound that plays in windows explorer and internet explorer.

1. Open the Control Panel
2. Click on Sounds and Audio Devices
3. Open the Sounds Tab
4. Scroll down the list of sounds until you see Windows Explorer
5. Click on Start Navigation
6. Change the sound to None
   

Display a message on Startup

If you would like to display a legal message or any other message in a pop-up window when windows starts read below:

1. Start regedit, if you are unfamiliar with regedit please see our FAQ.
2. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
3. Modify the key legalnoticecaption with what you want to name the window.
4. Modify the key legalnoticetext with what you want the window to say.
5. Restart.

Turn off system beeps

1. Start Regedit. If you are unfamiliar with regedit please refer to our FAQ on how to get started.
2. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Sound
3. Once there, locate Beep on the list on the right.
4. Right click on it and select Modify
5. Change the value equal to no
6. Reboot your computer and the beeps will be gone!