Okay, I'm a longtime Photoshop user, but I've just upgraded to Photoshop CS2 from Photoshop 7 (I generally only upgrade on odd numbers). I've been playing with it a bit and finding a few of the differences from PS7, but I wondered if anyone else has upgraded and if so, what have you found that's different? I haven't really explored the new features at all yet, although I understand that there are several, so if you've got input on that account, that'd be cool too. bonni

Edit-Transform-Warp is worth looking into - improves upon Transform-Distort by a wide margin (although distort is still very useful for quadrilateral selections)

The layers palette behavior has changed a lot though (this was between CS1 and CS2), especially with the ability to CTRL-Click layers to temporarily group them and with linking.

"Adobe Bridge" has taken over from the file browser and seems to be a little better at handling large directories (and is a separate app, which helps too)

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To the Bridge captain:)

I've been playing with this new PS a bit (okay more than a bit, and later than I should have stayed up). I like it. There are a few things that made me go, "Huh?!" but overall I'm really liking it and some of the new features. :) bonni

as kurt said "warp tool" is well worth looking into!! What's cool is you can easily wrap a photo around a bottle or can and make your own custom product placement ;) ...also like the "vanishing point" filter for cloning and transforming in perspective. Glad they implemented "smart objects", it was always a pisser when you realized you sized down your ILLUS file to far and try to scale it up gets you a pixelated potato-stamp mark instead of crisp images. the layers palette "re-do" throw a loop in the mix (didn't like the change myself...didn't feel it was needed) more later, (gotta get my daughter) :) scott

Layers: I want to adjust the Transparency and Fill; but the sliders don't work. Whats up with that? Oh yes, PS-7 was my first Adobe Product and I never did learn much about it.

It would be nice to have User Written Forum Tutorials linked to the header here, so those of us who have problems using Adobe's Forums might get better help here at Renderosity.

Layers: I want to adjust the Transparency and Fill; but the sliders don't work. Whats up with that? Hmmm. I just tried it and it seems to work for me (yes, I used to be a support tech, and yes, that's the most annoying answer in the world ;-). Just make sure you have the layer selected, from what I can tell. bonni

Oh yes, the layer is selected alright.

Another thing is zooming in with the wheel on the mouse in full screen mode.

We used to be able to zoom in until the horizontal (top and bottom) edges met the outer edges of the frame. That function is no longer working either.

One thing I did find with the new layers is that you have to click right on the the little square for the actual layer to do anything with it. Click in the other parts and it just doesn't respond. Pretty irritating, really, and I can't figure out why they thought that was an improvement. bonni

Thanx, that helps and I agree. Sometime developers change things simply to justify their jobs.

cryptojoe, For zooming in full screen (or any) mode...Alt>wheel scroll. In full screen mode (unlike PS7) you are not confined by the "outer edges of the frame"....you can slide your image off screen. That allows you to work on the outer edges or corners of your image "centered" in the window. Not sure what you mean by "the sliders don't work, but you don't need to use them. Adobe added what is called 'scrubby sliders' to the Transparency and Fill functions. Just hover your cursor over the word opacity or fill and it turns into a hand with a double arrowclick and move your mouse left or right to adjust. Bonnie, One of the new features in PSCS2 is a way to.well, find the new features in PSCS2. In the toolbar go Window>Workspace>Whats new in CS2. Now while youre working (or just nosing around), most of the new features will be highlighted in the menus and easy to spot. SWAMP

In the toolbar go Window>Workspace>Whats new in CS2. Cool. :-) I've never been good at actually, you know, reading documentation... LOL! I will now, though. bonni

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Somewhere between PS6 and CS2, the ability to hit [ctrl]+click on the layer to make a selection was lost. Have scoured the docs for CS2 but couldn't find a replacement ([ctrl]+click layer is now used for grouping). Did I miss something, or has that function completely disappeared? Many thanks, Mark

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Preferences!

the ability to hit [ctrl]+click on the layer to make a selection was lost It's still there. This one caught me out, too, though, so don't feel bad. You need to click in the layer palatte directly on the actual layer part, to the far left. You used to be able to click anywhere on the layer in the palatte, but now it has to be much more precise. It's still there, though. bonni