Adobe release free Photoshop CS2

[Host]

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]

So that's the news - Adobe are allowing everyone to download Photoshop CS2 for free. Now I know that CS2 came out almost 8 years ago, but from what I have read, it isn't as out-dated as you would think. The download is completely safe and legal, if you want to read that original article, click here and if you'd like to download CS2 then click here!

Before anyone says that this is some trojan or any of that crap, go to google and search 'Free Photoshop CS2' and look for a recent article on the subject.

Heres a screenie if anyone needs any more persuasion

 

[Fendle]

Awesome, I needed something like this.

 

[Emperor Nero]

CS2 is honestly just as good as any other PS. Feng Zhu, who is one of my favorite concept artists, still used CS a lot up until about 4 months ago.

 

[Host]

CS2 is honestly just as good as any other PS. Feng Zhu, who is one of my favorite concept artists, still used CS a lot up until about 4 months ago.

Yeah, plus it is a much smaller file size compared to CS6, the CS6 trial took 1 hour to download, while the CS2 one took 5 minutes.

 

[kill dank]

My woman just asked me about this like last week, but assuming it was too good to be true and without doing any research myself, I told her it was probably a scam... I was wrong apparently.

 

[Host]

My woman just asked me about this like last week, but assuming it was too good to be true and without doing any research myself, I told her it was probably a scam... I was wrong apparently.

Lol, I thought the same.

 

[Add My Msn]

It's not that out dated, it only misses a little content from the newer versions but it's totally free so yeah.

 

[ivyfpop]

Well past great just getting a new computer,
this will hold me down.

 

[Draucia]

Just a heads up, this was NOT a CS2 giveaway. The quote itself:

Effective December 13, Adobe disabled the activation server for CS2 products and Acrobat 7 because of a technical glitch. These products were released over 7 years ago and do not run on many modern operating systems. But to ensure that any customers activating those old versions can continue to use their software, we issued a serial number directly to those customers. While this might be interpreted as Adobe giving away software for free, we did it to help our customers.

So I guess if you are using CS2 from that page and you haven't purchased a licence for it, I guess (?) it's technically illegal. But it's really old and I'm not sure if this thread should be removed or not (technically classified as Warez).