[Alex Henkel]

Hello-

I am going to be graduating college so I want to stock up on software at the student price... my question is: Photoshop CS2 is $299, and the whole Adobe Creative Suite CS2 is $399. Is it worth the extra $100? I may use the extra programs, but if I do, it will probably be just making a personal webpage or something like that? Do you think it would be worth it to invest a $100 now in the chance I may use it?

Thanks,

Alex

[Juice Daddy]

cs2 has illustrator, photoshop, and indesign

illustrator is fairly difficult to use, but... it would mainly be used for "illustrations"
for example - http://folk.ntnu.no/hakonja/referans...llustrator.png

and indesign is for page layouts, basically, a really powerful word program

[turtile]

Its worth it if you are going to use the programs.

[Juice Daddy]

exactly as stated^

definitely!

but if you don't use them then no...

also, I should have mentioned before, Illustrator it for vector work
basically, it is an image made up of mathematical equations that can be resized without loss of quality
(photoshop is pixel based, resizing will reduce quality)

here's an example:


here: wikipedia can shed some light on these programs

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indesign
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Illustrator
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photoshop