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[+Mephistopheles]

Grab Photoshop and CS2 For Absolutely Free, Right Now

Adobe’s giving us all a late Christmas present. You can grab yourself a free, legitimate copy of Photoshop and the rest of the Creative Suite 2, right now, direct from Adobe. No catch.

Well, unless you think having an Adobe account is a catch. Anyway, apparently Adobe’s tired of keeping the activation servers running to support legitimate installs of the 10-year-old CS2, so it’s decided to just give it away. Sounds great to me.

Handy if all you need is a quick image editor, Photoshop CS2 will still do all the basic things, just not the new fancy smart ‘content aware‘ stuff. Free’s free, so get over to Adobe.com and get downloading. [Adobe via Twitter]

Source: Gizmodo UK


Moderator edit: Adobe has not released CS2 for free.

http://forums.adobe....message/4974662

Edited by lcg, 08 January 2013 - 10:15.

[+Phouchg]

Who woulda thunk...
What next? Oracle giving Enterprise Edition away?

[+littleneutrino]

good to know, i can pass this along to a few people i know that cannot afford to buy a copy.

[]SK[]

English URL : http://www.adobe.com...e=cs2_downloads

[LaP]

Are they really giving it so that you can do commercial work with it ?

I curently own Xara cause Photoshop and Illustrator are way too expensive for my need but i would not say no to completly free for comercial use CS2. It's oudated but far enough good for me.

[ShawnB]

This won't work on newer Intel-based Macs, right?

[+Chicane-UK]

That's.... incredible! Thanks Adobe!

[lcg]

Very cool. Thanks for the heads up!

[Ryoken]

This is awesome of them. Even without Content Aware from CS3, CS2 is an amazing image editor.

[+Jdawg683]

this is really neat. i wont use it, but i passed it along to my wife.

Thanks!

[DirtyLarry]

ShawnB, on 07 January 2013 - 14:58, said:

This won't work on newer Intel-based Macs, right?

Hmmm, I always thought it used Rosetta to run. I am trying to think back, and pretty sure I have run CS2 on my older iMac, which is an intel based computer.

[Dane]

If I just signed up do I need to download all of those now to keep them for free? Or will they always be there?

[pinTero]

Holy Crap! Just registered an Adobe account.. and it's all there for free.
Creative Suite means, there's also Acrobat pro 8, Audition 3.0, Premiere Pro 2 and so on.. amazing stuff!

[Ryoken]

DirtyLarry, on 07 January 2013 - 15:03, said:

Hmmm, I always thought it used Rosetta to run. I am trying to think back, and pretty sure I have run CS2 on my older iMac, which is an intel based computer.

It is PPC based, so it needs Rosetta to run.

[ACTIONpack]

I don't see what's the big deal about software from April 2005. Just wish Adobe didn't charge $50 a month for all their software a month. It's over price.