Adobe Illustrator CS2 Description:

Adobe Illustrator CS2 is the latest (April 2007) release of Adobe Illustrator, the industry-standard vector graphics software. Illustrator CS2 gives designers new creative freedom so they can realize ideas quickly and powerfully. Users can instantly convert bitmaps to vector artwork with Live Trace, paint intuitively with Live Paint and save time with the new context-sensitive Control Palette and optimized workspaces. Plus, tight integration with other software, both within the new Adobe Creative Suite 2 and with other applications, lets designers produce extraordinary graphics for print, video, the Web, and mobile devices. What's New with CS2?

	Live Trace Quickly and accurately convert photos, scans, or other bitmap images to editable and scalable vector paths with the Live Trace feature.		Live Paint Apply color to any area of your artwork and use overlapping paths to create new shapes with the Live Paint tool, which intuitively colors artwork and automatically detects and corrects gaps.
	Control Palette Discover new features and find existing features faster in the context-sensitive Control palette. Accessing selection-based tools from a single location eliminates the need for multiple palettes.		Custom Workspaces Work more efficiently and optimize your screen area using custom workspaces that display only the palettes you need for a specific task. Save, share, or access any workspace at any time or use workspace templates.
	Adobe Photoshop Layer Comp Support Control the visibility of layer comps in linked, embedded, or opened Photoshop files from within Illustrator CS2.		Adobe Bridge Use Adobe Bridge to efficiently browse and preview your creative assets, run automation scripts, access Adobe Stock Photos, and more.
	Mobile Content Creation Optimize rich graphical content for mobile wireless devices by saving artwork in any SVG format, including SVG-t, with improved export options, previewing, and more.		Colorized Grayscale Assign a spot color to a linked, embedded, or opened grayscale image, or even apply a spot color to a drop shadow and be confident that artwork will separate properly when printing.

More About Adobe Illustrator CS2

• 3D Effects Turn 2D shapes into fully editable 3D objects by extruding and revolving paths. Add lighting and wrap images around 3D shapes to easily create objects such as packaging mock-ups.
• Advanced Typography Easily create and control type with over 100 OpenType fonts, paragraph and character styles, paragraph composition, underline and strikethrough, transparent effects, and more.
• Envelopes and Live Distortion Easily warp, liquefy, and distort artwork any way imaginable with envelopes and live distortion tools.
• Professionally Designed Content Jump-start your projects with more than 270 professionally designed templates and over 100 OpenType fonts, all included with Illustrator CS2.
• Production Automation Work at peak efficiency with timesaving tools like dynamic, data-driven graphics, robust scripting, action sets, and automated processing in Adobe Bridge.
• Integration with Your Favorite Applications Keep your work flowing with easy integration of your designs into other Adobe applications, as well as into Macromedia Flash (SWF), QuarkXPress, and Microsoft Office products.
• Enhanced Adobe PDF File Creation Create native Adobe PDF files, including multipage PDF files, so clients and others can easily review your artwork using Adobe Acrobat or free Adobe Reader software.
• Superior Web Graphics Easily create for the Web using vector-based slicing tools, expanded SVG import and export, Pixel Preview mode, expanded Adobe Photoshop export options, simplified SWF file export options, and more.
• Nearly Universal Graphic File Format Support Work with almost any type of graphic file--including PDF, EPS, SVG, Photoshop (PSD), TIFF, GIF, JPEG, SWF, and more.
• Superior Print Capabilities Get fast, consistent results with an intuitive interface that includes advanced control over separations, transparency flattening, Fit to Page, and new support for printing page tile overlaps.
• Gradient Mesh Simulate airbrush and watercolor effects by adding multiple colors and precisely controlling the transitions between colors.
• Symbolism Tools Enhance your artwork with additional design elements by spraying, scaling, colorizing, and adjusting the transparency of repeated symbols while keeping file sizes small.
• Flexible Brushes Add flair to paths with customized brushes. Choose from calligraphic, scatter, art, and pattern brushes.
• Live Effects Apply live effects, including the hand-drawn Scribble Effect, without affecting the underlying artwork, so you can edit at any time without starting over.
• Unlimited Transparency Expand your design options with blending modes and transparency effects similar to those in Adobe Photoshop software.
• Envelopes and Live Distortion Easily warp, liquefy, and distort artwork any way imaginable with envelopes and live distortion tools.
• 3D Effects Turn 2D shapes into fully editable 3D objects by extruding and revolving paths. Add lighting and wrap images around 3D shapes to easily create objects such as packaging mock-ups.
• Adobe Photoshop Filters Achieve a wide variety of effects by applying Adobe Photoshop filters as nondestructive live effects, included with the Photoshop Filter Gallery.
• Pen Tool Draw with precision using the Pen tool for complete control over anchor points and Bézier curves.
• Pencil Tool Draw onscreen as you would on paper with the Pencil tool. Edit paths by simply drawing a new line near the path you want to alter.
• Expanded Stroke Options Control the position of a stroke on a path by choosing centered, inside, or outside.
• Smooth and Erase Tools Quickly smooth unwanted bumps in a path or erase part of a path with the Smooth and Erase tools.
• Advanced Typography: Character and Paragraph Styles Apply formatting to individual characters, lines of type, or entire paragraphs with a single click using Character and Paragraph Styles.
• Paragraph Composition Optimize line breaks throughout an entire paragraph with minimal hyphenation and better word and letter spacing using the Every-Line Composer.
• Text Underline and Strikethrough Easily apply underlining and strikethroughs to any line of text, section of text, or text element.
• Transparent Text Efects Expand your typographic options using ghosted text, transparent drop shadows with soft edges, and other effects for transparent text.
• OpenType Fonts Simplify cross-platform font management and take advantage of alternate glyphs and extended character sets with more than 100 OpenType fonts, included free.
• Automatic Kerning and Optical Alignment Adjust the space between letters using automatic kerning, and hang punctuation outside the edges of a text box using optical alignment.
• Smart Quotes and Ligatures Add polish to your designs with automatic smart quotes and proper ligatures.
• Alternate Glyphs Palette Access a font's extended character set from the Alternate Glyphs palette.