Yeah, I've upgraded to CS2 (from CS1) and have been in "Adobe Heaven" since it first came out. Quite a few new features that are fun to play with.
I also picked up a Wacom Intuos 9x12" tablet about a month ago. I get a pretty hefty discount through my company and Wacom. I may also buy the airbrush tool.
In PS, the clone tool's been upgraded since CS1 where it was first introduced. Makes the stamp tool kind of obsolete. My favourite new feature is the vanishing point feature. It's almost like painting in 3D. See the help files for more info on the new stuff. Worth the read. Also check out the video tutorials, on CD 7. I think there's a tutorial and resources CD as well (CD6?).
I don't use GoLive since I'm pretty happy in a text editor. It has better support for CSS and XHTML than previous versions and doesn't use the stupid nested tables method anymore. Makes for much cleaner code.
Smart objects have been improved across the entire suite. You can now pop in images as smart objects into Illustrator or InDesign without rastorizing it, so you scale and modify it indefinitely without losing quality.
I find Bridge useful for adding metadata to images for cataloging. The batch rename feature is handy for renaming an entire directory of pictures or files in one shot.
Version Cue is an asset management tool that is only really useful if you need to consolidate a huge amount of different files for a single project. People who do magazine layouts for instance. You have a bunch of text files, Photoshop images, Illustrator vector drawings and other stuff that needs to be popped into InDesign to be arranged properly. Other people in your design team may be touching up an image in Photoshop while you already have the same image arranged in InDesign. When your collegues saves the image, it gets updated in InDesign while you are still working. Pretty cool if that's what you do, but otherwise, it sucks up too much resources for it to be worthwhile.
I'm in Adobe heaven!
Holy shit, I just watched the video on that. That's amazing! It's something I had kind of been wanting but never expecting to get, you know?obsidian wrote:My favourite new feature is the vanishing point feature. It's almost like painting in 3D.
I also just watched the video on Live Trace and Live Paint. OMFG, this is going to shave HOURS off of a few of the projects I've got to do over the semester. I almost wet myself watching that vid. I honestly think I just halved the time I will be spending on each project... :icon28:
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