CS2-favorite feature

[Sean]

For all who have the newest version of PS, CS2, what's your favorite feature?
To tell the truth, I haven't decided yet. It's either between Adobe Bridge, Warp Transform, and Smart Objects.
I like the Bridge because for one: you can open it up outside of PS, and also It's great for organizing all your files. You can even colour tag files. Oh, and you can increase the thumbnail size of an image to fill the whole screen.
I use the warp transform mode all the time. But it wouldn't work as good without Smart Objects. These just allow you to rotate, skew, warp images without losing detail, or getting all pixilly around the edges. You can also save/export Smart Objects. It's like saving seperate layers instead of whole psd file. Then you can import them when ever you want.
Anyways, I'm still deciding which feature is the best. \:]

Also, feel free to post new features you would like to see in the future.

 

[jonbalza]

While I'd be hard-pressed to name a "best" new feature, two that I pretty much can't live without are ones you've already mentioned: Smart Objects and Bridge.

I know I've barely scratched the surface of Bridge, but just the fact that it's a) much faster than File Browser, and b) it's standalone make it worth the upgrade itself.

Smart Objects are not without their quirks and annoyances, but overall, they've completely changed the way I work, and are absolutely amazing.

Some other of my favorite new features:
- Customizable menus
- "Animations" palette within Photoshop (But PS still can't open animated GIFs - that just seems like laziness on Adobe's part. [doh] )
- The new "layers" palette
- and much more!

 

[Sean]

"Animations" palette within Photoshop (But PS still can't open animated GIFs - that just seems like laziness on Adobe's part. )
- The new "layers" palette

Yes that does seem dumb! Can't open animated gifs.... [doh] }:\

I really like the new layers palette, but it took some getting use to. When I first got I though I forgot how to link layers, but when you get use to it, it's way easier to work with than previous layers palette. B7

 

[Red Rooster]

My favorite would have to be the Vanihing point feature... when I think of some more I will tell you.

 

[Raven]

I agree with all mentioned (I also was perplexed about the linking of layers at first [confused] ), I love the layers though, and especially the warp and vanishing point features AND the noise reduction/smoothing for image enlargement quality!

 

[NemesisWorks]

Animation Pallete in PS. But hey plz tell me how to select a layer's contents ? As iin last versions we do by pressing and holding ctrl + click.

 

[Sark]

I'm still using PS7, but would be interested to know if CS2 has the ability to import a folder of files (images) as layers. This is something Adobe should have added long ago. IR can import a folder of files as frames, so why not PS as layers.

Once in IR you can revert to PS and the frames become layers, but this is a long way round for such a simple function.

Sark

 

[jonbalza]

But hey plz tell me how to select a layer's contents ? As iin last versions we do by pressing and holding ctrl + click.

Ctrl-click on the thumbnail, not the name of the layer.

I'm still using PS7, but would be interested to know if CS2 has the ability to import a folder of files (images) as layers.

I'm pretty sure that would be a no, but I haven't tried it.