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37 of 47 customers found the following review helpful:
 cheaper to buy 7 and upgrade, 2005-06-14
CS2 is OK, but rather than pay full new price, why not buy PS 7.0 for $142 and upgrade to CS2 for similar $, ending up with CS2 for $300?
12 of 23 customers found the following review helpful:
 If you want the best, this is it., 2005-06-08
First, being a frustrated user of Digital Image Suite 10, then a very happy user of Photoshop Elements 3 but wanting to have more, specially organizing pictures and advanced fixing. Now, I'm not only happy with my investment, but also amazed by the results obtained by working with Photoshop CS2. If you like to be proud of pictures you share with family/friends or sell, this is a must!
It is a pleasure applying changes to see nicer results than expected, the Spot Healing Tool works incredible well. WEB designing was also a wonderful surprise to me; it offers much more options than you think. My site now looks much better than lots of professional sites.
I have not used support at this time, so I can't say anything on that side.
It wasn't an easy deciding to spend this kind of money in software not going to be used for work, but I wanted the best for my hobby. I sure recommend this product, especially for pros because it is not very easy to use for beginners... but if they take the time to learn, they sure will end having amazing pictures.
26 of 28 customers found the following review helpful:
 CS2 Installation Issues, 2005-06-03
Installed CS2 Premium, registered the product. Then I realized I had a DOS icon for Adobe Acrobat. Double clicked and it said it wasn't installed. Reinserted the cd, installed Acrobat, then it wanted to go through the activation process. Wouldn't activate because the other products were activated and it thought I was pirating the product. Called Adobe Help Desk. Ruthy was stumped and had me call a tech support number that I had to PAY for! He told me to uninstall the whole product and reinstall. Uninstall took 189 minutes. Then tried to reinstall. Said Adobe Acrobat was already installed, but when I went to add remove programs in Windows, it says it is not installed. Called the Help Desk again. They tried again, couldn't help. Told me I could PAY and call tech support again. I am now installing CS back on my machine. This is the worst upgrade Adobe has put out. I am frustrated because it never installed correctly in the first place, but to get help, it is going to cost me more money.
211 of 235 customers found the following review helpful:
Interesting Features but Still a Flawed License Manager, 2005-05-06
My experience with Photoshop CS2 has been limited thus far, but it does appear to offer some nice new features, particularly to the enhancement in Adobe Camera Raw, the Spot Healing Tool, and possibly Adobe Bridge as I explore it more. A major drawback to me personally, is that changes have been made in the user interface that conflict with the old Extensis PhotoTools plug-in, namely in that the PhotoBars component which provides a customizable toolbar ehancement will no longer work. Although Extensis no longer supports PhotoTools and deleted the PhotoTools component when Photoshop 6 was issued, I have been involved in maintaining PhotoBars so that it would work on the PC platform in Photoshop versions 6, 7, and CS. The customizable toolbars added a wonderful extension of usability to the Photoshop interface, and the loss of that capability due to changes made in Photoshop CS2 is very unfortunate.
Of great interest to me was to see how Adobe has changed License Management, i.e., product activation in Photoshop CS2. While the license manager does appear greatly improved in terms of not being as likely to have errant reactivations arise due to use of the System Restore utility in Windows XP, hardware changes, etc., it still manifests the same critical flaw as existed in Photoshop CS. Namely, Adobe has not provided any grace period at all for the instances when reactivation is prompted. So, if you are someone perhaps travelling with a laptop computer and are ever at a remote location where telephone or internet access is not readily available, you are at risk of fully losing use of Photoshop CS2 in the event of an errant reactivation prompt arising. The odds of this occurring do appear greatly reduced due to changes made in the triggers affecting a reactivation, but the risk is there nonetheless. Adobe should have implemented a short-term grace period of continued use following a prompt for reactivation, so that a user would not unexpectedly be faced with denied access at a critical time. The only alternative in this situation is to have a backup copy of an earlier version of Photoshop installed for use until Photoshop CS2 can be reactivated or, to employ the use of software hacks that defeat the license manager. The preferred solution would be for Adobe to provide an update that incorporates a reactivation grace period, but they seem to be ignoring the problem. I had hoped that the new Transfer Activation process in Photoshop CS2 might allow a user to export activation state data to removable media which, if an errant reactivation prompt arose, could be used to re-establish the valid activation state on the PC. Unfortunately, the Tranfer Activation process requires an internet connection and thus is again useless if one is at a remote location.
With regard to the 1st review posted here, installation of Photoshop CS2 is permitted to two computers under the normal single-user license. The only restriction defined in the license is that these 2 installations cannot be used concurrently. The license specifically reads as follows:
"2.4 Portable or Home Computer Use. The primary user of the Computer on which the Software is installed may install a second copy of the Software for his or her exclusive use on either a portable Computer or a Computer located at his or her home, provided the Software on the portable or home Computer is not used at the same time as the Software on the primary Computer."
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