

Illustrator was originally released in 1987 for the Apple Macintosh. It was often sold as a companion product to the bit-map/photo editor Adobe Photoshop. That said, for design teams working in print, mobile, and Web formats, Creative Suite 2.0 provides the tools you'll need. Adobe Illustrator is a vector graphics editor developed and marketed by Adobe Systems.

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Finally, the Creative Suite 2.0 package is not for old hardware: you'll need a pretty powerful PC to run everything. We also think that there are too many pallets floating around the GoLive interface. We noticed a slight file incompatibility between InDesign CS files and InDesign CS2 files that prevented us from being able to work on older files. As in Photoshop you can set customized work spaces within Illustrator CS2 but unlike with Photoshop CS 2, no preset work spaces are provided within Illustrator CS2, so you'll have to create them all from scratch. Unfortunately, Adobe still hasn't fully integrated ImageReady CS2 within Photoshop CS2, which means some tools remain orphaned within ImageReady. Designers and those who need to prepare artwork for print or Web publication should buy Adobe Creative Suite 2.0, but hobbyists will find Corel Graphics Suite 12.0 a better bargain. If you have used any of the individual products in the past, we think CS2P is a worthy upgrade. The suite also includes access to Adobe's library of stock images.

Version Cue 2.0, a file management app, maintains version control, while Adobe Bridge, a new app, allows designers to synchronize color settings throughout the suite and preview images from within any Creative Suite program, regardless of which app you used to create them. The main advantage of this suite, however, is its ability to share images produced in one app with another app. Included are updated versions of Photoshop (photo editor), Illustrator (graphic illustrator), GoLive (Web designer), InDesign (layout designer), and Acrobat 7.0 Professional (Web publisher)-all of which are available separately. With Creative Suite 2.0 Premium (CS2P), Adobe integrates its photo and design environment components into one versatile package so that print- and Web-based graphic designers can share files more easily among applications.
