As I opened the box and started going through the packaged materials I remember the feeling of being overwhelmed by the size and power of the new Adobe Creative Suite 2. Where do I even start to give you my view of the product? After all, it contains new versions of Photoshop, Illustrator, inDesign, GoLive, and the full, latest version of Adobe Acrobat. If this wasn’t enough, the suite also had a new program called “Bridge” and a new “Version Cue” project management program.

Here I am, a website designer and Mac Geek that maybe only used 10% of all the capabilities the programs offered me. I understood about half of the functionality, but just never used it in my everyday life. I then remembered something I heard that rang especially true in this situation. Someone once told me that most people only use 10% of the features in Microsoft Office and look how successful of a program Office had become. So I realized that we can’t all be Bert Monroy, so let’s take a look at the features that impressed me the most in the new CS2 programs.

In order to show just the slightest hint of a plan in tackling this project, I decided to take each product separately and split it with the Mac ReviewCast podcast. Therefore, lets start with a look Adobe Photoshop CS2. What’s new and what did I think about it?

Read the review at Surf-Bits.com