According to Betanews, Adobe is planning to announce a major upgrade to Photoshop CS called Photoshop CS2. The announcement by Adobe was suppose to be made on Monday of next week. A press release was posted early and then taken down. According to Betanews, the new upgrade will be available in May.
The new release promises better tools to fix common image problems such as red eye and blemishes, as well as updated support for raw, or uncompressed, images. The software is expected to start shipping in May. Adobe says it added numerous features to Photoshop CS2 in response to requests from users and the changing needs of the digital imaging industry. A new spot healing brush will fix blemishes, red-eye and distortion from camera lenses. Users will also be able to scale images with less quality loss than previous Photoshop versions. A tool known as Vanishing Point will allow the user to recolor and transform objects in an image without altering its perspective. Image Warp, another new tool, enables a user to easily twist, warp or skew an image cleanly using preset functions, or with custom points. A new version of Camera Raw, Adobe’s plug-in for manipulating uncompressed images from digital cameras, supports modifying multiple raw files simultaneously. Adobe has also added batch processing that can be done without launching the Photoshop executable.