FINAL DAY! Widely regarded as the most powerful photo image editing and manipulation package money can buy, you could own your own copy of Photoshop CS2 by entering our prize draw this month
Jump to how to enter this competition This competition is now closed - The Winner is Mrs Jolanta Smith of Peterborough, England.
See DPNow's illustrated introductory tour of Photoshop CS2
DPNow CS2 launch news story
Photoshop CS2 is brand new and commands a street price tag of around UKŁ500 - US$600- EU€900. It's a key component of Adobe's latest Creative Suite 2 family of image workflow tools, including Acrobat. InDesign, Illustrator and GoLive,
One of the great new tools in Photoshop CS2 is lets you set a perspective vanishinhg point so you can edit and manipulate areas of the image in perspective.
CS2 improvements to whet the serious photographer's appetite include:
Improved support for RAW file conversion
New smart healing tools for easier seamless retouching
Improved help system
Much improved file management and integration with other CS2 components via the new Bridge feature
New three dimensional perspective correction and manipulation tools
Enhanced 16-bit image support and new 32-bit support
Improve red-eye reduction tool
Busting of previous 2Gb image cache size limitation
New effects filters and lens aberratio correction tools
And that's just a list of the improvements. Photoshop is, fundamentally, a comprehensive layers-based image editing tool with a powerful, fully colour managed, imaging engine at its core.
If that's a little over the top for you, Adobe's Photoshop Elements 3.0 is an easier to use alternative, aimed at non-professionals, that retains much of the core power and flexibility of the full Photoshop CS2.
But Photoshop CS2 is a valuable prize you shouldn't pass up. Here's what you should do to have a chance of winning your copy:
Enter this month's prize draw - it's easy!
To be entered into the draw, all you need to do is to
subscribe to our email newsletter, Digital Photography Now Extra!, which keeps you up to date with what's what DPNow-wise.
If you are already one of our thousands of subscribers, you can
enter too – just follow the instructions on the entry form. Good luck!
Another chance to win!
Our friend, Mark Goldstein, over at
PhotographyBlog, is also running a
competition this month. Look out for some ColorVision prize goodies for calibrating and profiling your colour monitor.
