Creative Suite CS 2 coming soon!
Posted on March 28, 2005
Filed Under Design
Apparently, this morning [Adobe](http://www.adobe.com) goofed and “announced” Photoshop CS 2 a week early. Didn’t [Steve](http://www.apple.com) call it “premature specification?” Anyway, they caught the goof and pulled the release from their site, but [Steve's Digicams](http://steves-digicams.com/diginews.html#jump) grabbed a copy and posted it. Coincidence that Adobe is hosting an [“ideas conference”](http://adobe.ideasconf.com/) on April 4? Probably not.
>SAN JOSE, Calif. — April 4, 2005 — Adobe Systems Incorporated today announced Adobe Photoshop CS2, a major upgrade to the professional industry standard for digital image editing and creation. Available as a stand-alone software application or as a key component of **Adobe Creative Suite 2,** also announced today (see separate press release), Photoshop CS2 software brings a new level of power, precision and control to the digital photography experience and to the overall creative process.
**Emphasis mine.** As much as I’m interested in new bells & whistles in Photoshop, I really want to see what’s new in InDesign and Illustrator. I’m hoping that someone else caught their press releases before they were taken down, but I haven’t found it yet.
From the Photoshop information, I’ll have to wait and see before I get excited. I don’t use RAW files, so that part didn’t interest me. This is the only part that got my attention:
>Photoshop CS2 integrates a new set of intuitive tools, including an enhanced Spot Healing Brush, for handling common photographic problems such as blemishes, red-eye, noise, blurring and lens distortion.
Doubtful that I will upgrade Photoshop on its own. If the improvements in InDesign and Illustrator are worth it, I’ll upgrade the suite. We’ll see. I’ll also be paying careful attention to features that are offered only on one platform or the other. Unless there’s a significant difference (such as in Acrobat where many features are “Windows Only”) I’m 99% certain that I’ll be keeping my Adobe license on the Mac because that’s where all my fonts are. Once again, can I whine that a license that allows for a desktop and laptop installation requires both to be on the same platform? What difference does it really make if it’s just me and I’m not using both at the same time? Why is a G5 and a PowerBook okay but a PC desktop and PowerBook isn’t? Until someone can give me a plausible reason beyond “because they said so” you’ll be hearing this from me a bit…get used to it. 
Speak of which, knowing that I only have a couple of more weeks with my Dell desktop before the laptop arrives, I downloaded the demo version of [Dreamweaver MX 2004](http://www.macromedia.com/products/dreamweaver) for Windows. My PC desktop is a Celeron processor and Dreamweaver runs just as smooth on it as it does on my dual 2 Ghz G5. If anything, it’s a better experience because of the improved interface.
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