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Adobe Creative Suite 2 is a unified design environment, combining several Adobe suite into one complete creative suite. Using the tools available in Adobe Photoshop CS2, Illustrator CS2 and InDesign CS2, you'll realize the full potential of your creative ideas. GoLive 7 and Acrobat 7.0 Professional help you create compelling static and dynamic visions that deliver your message. Combined with Version Cue CS2, Adobe Bridge, and Adobe Stock Photos, you've got all you need to reach the next level of productivity, collaboration and realization. Live Trace - Quickly and accurately converts photos, scans, or other bitmap images to editable and scalable vector paths Image editing with Adobe Photoshop CS2 Drawing and illustration with Adobe Illustrator CS2 Page layout with Adobe InDesign® CS2 Web design with Adobe GoLive CS2 Client review and print output with Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional File sharing and versioning with Version Cue CS2 File browsing and organizing with Adobe Bridge Royalty-free images with Adobe Stock Photos
Customer Review: Avoid CS2 - stick with CS!
If I had $1 for every time a CS2 app crashed and made expend real hours to redo work, I'd have about $10. And that's enough for me to say, BEWARE of this set of applications! Adobe has allowed them to get too bloated, too slow, and the results are that all the programs (but principally GoLive, InDesign and Illustrator, in that order) are crashy and will quite suddenly, forcing you to expend the precious hours of your life redoing work you just finished. I cannot stress how disappointed I am in Adobe, and how distraught I am that we as a nation have allowed the only two competing companies to join, thus guaranteeing that there will be less quality and innovation in the future. In any event, do not buy the CS2 apps, Adobe does not deserve your support!If I had $1 for every time a CS2 app crashed and made expend real hours to redo work, I'd have about $10. And that's enough for me to say, BEWARE of this set of applications! Adobe has allowed them to get too bloated, too slow, and the results are that all the programs (but principally GoLive, InDesign and Illustrator, in that order) are crashy and will quite suddenly, forcing you to expend the precious hours of your life redoing work you just finished. I cannot stress how disappointed I am in Adobe, and how distraught I am that we as a nation have allowed the only two competing companies to join, thus guaranteeing that there will be less quality and innovation in the future. In any event, do not buy the CS2 apps, Adobe does not deserve your support!
Customer Review: An even better product than before . . .
My intro to Creative Suite was via the Windows version of inDesign 1.0 and Illustrator. In the five years (?) since, I've switched from those stand-alone products to the entire Creative Suite for the Mac. Most of my time is with those two packages (illustrator and inDesign) as well as with GoLive and Version Cue. Illustrator has always been (for my 5 yrs), and remains, excellent. My prior experience has been with Visio and Aldus Intellidraw (does anyone else remember that product?). Illustrator has the usual Adobe peculiarities which, once familiar, prove to be incredible time savers. For someone who would be satisfied with MS Word, if it worked properly, inDesign is good -- but overkill (and I mean that well). Still, I spent 4 solid years with it, before moving on (?) to Apple Pages (it's better than Word, but lacks high-end features of inDesign that I don't need most of the time). inDesign, to my experience, works nearly flawlessly. Coming from an office that is very Word orieinted, my only complaints with inDesign are (i) steep Adobe-like learning curve, and (ii) tough exports to MS Word. As to point (i), inDesign is similar to the other Adobe products, hence, the time you spend with inDesign will benefit your usage of Illustrator and vice versa. As to point (ii), exporting works fine -- you just have to do it "story" at a time. As to GoLive, I do simple web page creation and editing. GoLive is more than adequate for these functions and, I must say, I like it. Having come from a Front Page background (5 yrs ago), I found GoLive a little difficult to understand, at first. However, once I got the hang of it (over one solid weekend of playing around), I liked it. Early versions struck me as a little unstable (e.g., going back to GoLive 5, if I recall the number correctly). However, the recent versions have been just fine. Version Cue is a interesting. I relied on it heavily for 3 yrs and I still do, to an extent. It's great for holding Version Cue product. However, don't get tempted, as I did, to use it as an extranet for folks outside your organization. It was not intended for that, I don't think, and does not do it well. That said, it's a cool way to store not only the many files created by inDesign, Illustrator, etc., but also related MS Word, Excel, PDF, and other files. Overall, the product works "pretty well." I relied on it for some fairly heavy and time-sensitive products, without failure. Still, there were times with the earlier versions that I wondered whether it was going to leave me in a lurch. It never did. The more recent version seems stabler, though, I do find myself migrating over to a more conventional DAV server for the same functions (albeit without versioning). One gem in the new product is Adobe Bridge. I'm not quite sure how to describe it, except as a "desktop" that's great at viewing Adobe files. (Go figure!). It allows you to bounce around your local drive (as well, potentially, as network drives and Version Cue projects) to visualize your Adobe files. The integration is great: not only do you get high-res thumbnails, you can page through the Adobe files without opening the underlying applications. Bottom line: second to my Powerbook (and the Apple software that came with it), Adobe Creative Suite CS 2 is the best computer product I own.


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