Highlights

What's new in Illustrator CS2

Take advantage of more powerful creative tools, a streamlined interface, and new integration options, all in the new version of Illustrator CS2.

See it in action

Listen and watch as we walk you through the key features in Adobe Illustrator CS2.

Adobe Creative Suite 2

Take your ideas further with the complete design environment of Adobe Creative Suite 2, which includes Illustrator CS2.

Learn more about Adobe Bridge

The new Adobe Bridge file browser gives centralized control over virtually all aspects of your projects, from file searches to color settings.

Adobe Stock Photos

Quickly find the perfect image by searching the stock photo partners you rely on, all within your favorite Adobe tools.

Adobe Illustrator CS2 software gives you powerful new creative options, easier access to tools, and the versatility to quickly produce flexible graphics for print, video, the Web, and mobile devices.

• Know no limits
• Enjoy a smoother ride
• Work well with others

Know no limits

Live Trace

Quickly and accurately convert photos, scans, or other bitmap images to editable and scalable vector paths with the Live Trace feature.

Live Paint

Apply color to any area of your artwork and use overlapping paths to create new shapes with the Live Paint tool, which intuitively colors artwork and automatically detects and corrects gaps.

3D effects

Turn 2D shapes into fully editable 3D objects by extruding and revolving paths. Add lighting and wrap images around 3D shapes to easily create objects such as packaging mock-ups.

Advanced typography

Easily create and control type with over 100 OpenType® fonts, paragraph and character styles, paragraph composition, underline and strikethrough, transparent effects, and more.

Envelopes and live distortion

Easily warp, liquify, and distort artwork any way imaginable with envelopes and live distortion tools.

 

Enjoy a smoother ride

Control palette

Discover new features and find existing features faster in the context-sensitive Control palette. Accessing selection-based tools from a single location eliminates the need for multiple palettes.

Adobe Bridge

Use Adobe Bridge to efficiently browse and preview your creative assets, run automation scripts, access Adobe Stock Photos, and more.

Professionally designed content

Jump-start your projects with more than 270 professionally designed templates and over 100 OpenType® fonts, all included with Illustrator CS2.

Custom workspaces

Work more efficiently and optimize your screen area using custom workspaces that display only the palettes you need for a specific task. Save, share, or access any workspace at any time or use workspace templates.

Production automation

Work at peak efficiency with timesaving tools like dynamic, data-driven graphics, robust scripting, action sets, and automated processing in Adobe Bridge.

 

Work well with others

Integration with your favorite applications

Keep your work flowing with easy integration of your designs into other Adobe applications, as well as into Macromedia® Flash® (SWF), QuarkXPress, and Microsoft Office products.

Enhanced Adobe PDF file creation

Create native Adobe PDF files, including multipage PDF files, so clients and others can easily review your artwork using Adobe Acrobat® or free Adobe Reader® software.

Superior Web graphics

Easily create for the Web using vector-based slicing tools, expanded SVG import and export, Pixel Preview mode, expanded Photoshop export options, simplified SWF file export options, and more.

Nearly universal graphic file format support

Work with almost any type of graphic file-including PDF, EPS, SVG, Photoshop (PSD), TIFF, GIF, JPEG, SWF, and more.

Superior print capabilities

Get fast, consistent results with an intuitive interface that includes advanced control over separations, transparency flattening, Fit To Page, and new support for printing page tile overlaps.

Rediscover what you love about illustration by moving to Adobe Illustrator CS2. Now you can convert bitmap images to scalable, editable artwork in seconds. Paint more intuitively. Find the tools you need more easily. Customize your workspaces. Take your graphics to the printed page, Web sites, video, mobile devices, and virtually everywhere you want to go. See for yourself how vector graphics have been reinvented.

• Live Trace
• Live Paint
• Control palette
• Custom workspaces
• Adobe Photoshop® layer comp support

• Adobe Bridge
• Expanded stroke options
• Mobile content creation
• Colorized grayscale
• PDF/X support

Live Trace

Quickly and accurately convert photos, scans, or other bitmap images to editable and scalable vector paths with the Live Trace feature.

Live Paint

Apply color to any area of your artwork and use overlapping paths to create new shapes with the Live Paint tool, which intuitively colors artwork and automatically detects and corrects gaps.

Control palette

Discover new features and find existing features faster in the context-sensitive Control palette. Accessing selection-based tools from a single location eliminates the need for multiple palettes.

Custom workspaces

Work more efficiently and optimize your screen area using custom workspaces that display only the palettes you need for a specific task. Save, share, or access any workspace at any time or use workspace templates.

Adobe Photoshop® layer comp support

Control the visibility of layer comps in linked, embedded, or opened Photoshop files from within Illustrator CS2.

Adobe Bridge

Use Adobe Bridge to efficiently browse and preview your creative assets, run automation scripts, access Adobe Stock Photos , and more.

Expanded stroke options

Control the position of a stroke on a path by choosing centered, inside, or outside.

Mobile content creation

Optimize rich graphical content for mobile wireless devices by saving artwork in any SVG format, including SVG-t, with improved export options, previewing, and more.

Colorized grayscale

Assign a spot color to a linked, embedded, or opened grayscale image, or even apply a spot color to a drop shadow and be confident that artwork will separate properly when printing.

PDF/X support

Create reliable, press-ready layouts using ISO-standard and ANSI-standard PDF/X.