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10 Things You Can Do
With Photoshop CS2 That You Couldn't Do Before Now
Copyright
Shaun Pearce 2005
Is Photoshop CS2 worth the upgrade? You bet it is! Here are just
10 things you can do with this fantastic new version of Photoshop that were
impossible (or difficult) to do with previous versions:
- Manipulate objects in the Adobe Bridge
This new
generation of file browser enables you to look at photographs and artwork in
detail before you open the file, process multiple Camera Raw images, flip
through pages in PDF documents, size, rate and organise your work in a
convenient and highly user-friendly way. Goes way beyond the capabilities of
the File Browser introduced in Photoshop 7.
- Get rid of imperfections with the Spot Healing Bush
The Spot Healing brush enables you to get rid of slight imperfections -
like dust or scratches at the click of a mouse. Unlike the Healing Brush or
Patch tools, you don't have to find a source point first.
- Remove "red-eye" in an instant.
With older
versions of Photoshop, removing red-eye and pet-eye was possible, but it wasn't
easy. Now, one click of the Red Eye removal tool can remove pet-eye and red-eye
from your photographs, in less time than it takes your subject to say
"cheese!".
- Perform non-destructive scaling with Smart Objects.
You know how it is: You try to make an imported object larger, and it goes
all blurry and pixelated. With Smart Objects, that's a thing of the past,
because you can scale, warp and rotate vector graphics in a non-destructive
way.
- Do neat things in perspective with the new Vanishing
Point feature.
With Vanishing point you can cut and paste in
perspective. Now you're able to turn a photograph of a wall into a "virtual art
gallery" with all the pictures correctly skewed, or move a window from one side
of a building to another and, because the perspective is correct, have it look
like it's always been there. You can also draw lines that taper off into the
distance - wide nearest the camera, narrow further away - just like in "real
life".
- Get more accurate printing.
With Photoshop CS2,
the people at Adobe have improved the printing workflow. Now it's even easier
to configure your inkjet printer to get more accurate colour printing.
- Customise menus and workspaces.
Photoshop CS2 lets
you highlight commonly used menu items, and set up custom menus and workspaces.
Now all the power of Photoshop is (literally) at your command, and can be
tailored to your requirements.
- See what each font looks like before you use it.
Finally! Photoshop gets a WYSIWYG font drop-down menu. Now you don't
have to keep text highlighted while you cycle through all the fonts until you
get to the right one!
- Manipulate images with Image Warp.
Image Warp
allows you to bend, peel, and stretch images the same way as type. Now you can
put an image on a mug or soda can with ease.
- See what video graphics will look like, while you're
doing them.
If you're a video professional like me, you'll know how
frustrating it can be: You make a graphic that looks fantastic on a flat
computer monitor, but when you import the .psd file into your Avid timeline,
and look at it on the TV screen, it's not quite what you had in mind. You then
have to go back into Photoshop and make your artwork look "wrong", so it will
look right on a video monitor. With Photoshop CS2 you can preview your images
on a video monitor directly from the software, and see exactly how they're
going to look in your video, even if your editing software is on a different
computer. Neat eh?
 About the Author
Shaun Pearce is a writer and video maker. His latest production,
"Photoshop Master", is an interactive video tutorial. It shows you how to get
the most from Photoshop, and can be
downloaded here.
Award winning video maker Shaun
Pearce guides you step-by-step on how to use Photoshop, and makes the program
easy for a beginner to understand - yet the videos aren't so simplistic an
experienced user would get bored. The tutorials don't just show you how to do
fancy tricks and then leave you in the dark about essentials. Shaun shows you
how every tool works, explains why sometimes colors look different on the
screen than they do when printed out, demonstrates how to combine tools to
restore an old photograph (or make a new one look like a cherished antique),
makes adding text to photographs a breeze, illustrates how to make animated web
banners and gifs using ImageReady and lots, lots more.
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