adobe is offering creative suite 2 for free! (totes legit!)

supercarrot · **Posted:** Wed Jan 09, 2013 12:00 pm

seriously! creative suite 2 and other older versions of their products, no strings attached. yay!!!!

http://www.adobe.com/downloads/cs2_downloads/index.html

linanil · **Posted:** Wed Jan 09, 2013 12:13 pm

Actually, according to CNET, that isn't the case.
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-57 ... -for-free/

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There has been clarification since this story broke. Adobe has not released the CS2 software for free. Instead, it has cancelled its CS2 license management servers, so for those with existing licenses it is now offering downloads that do not require contact with the licensing servers. This service is only going to be available for those with existing Adobe CS2 licenses, which will be verified when creating the Adobe account to download the software.

ijustdiedinside · **Joined:** Sun Sep 05, 2010 8:43 pm **Posts:** 8543

oh. bummer!

supercarrot · **Posted:** Wed Jan 09, 2013 1:07 pm

oh man. :-(

thanks for the clarification. bleh.

::edit:: wait, no! read the comments. it's fine.

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We may have heard wrong by interpreting this as an official statement from Adobe, but in actuality Adobe IS providing it for free. You can get it right from the Adobe site without any authentication. I think the only "oops" here is Adobe's by perhaps making this mistake and now only realizing it was actually a good move, so they're keeping it available.

there are more under that comment.

linanil · **Posted:** Wed Jan 09, 2013 1:16 pm

ahh interesting. If it works, then go for it. I'd try it at least. I just didn't want someone to get excited, try to install it/do whatever and then adobe put the brakes on.

solipsistnation · **Posted:** Wed Jan 09, 2013 1:21 pm

Plus it's SUPER OLD. It's PowerPC code, so it won't run on modern Intel Macs, in particular.

joshua · **Posted:** Wed Jan 09, 2013 1:25 pm

solipsistnation wrote:

Plus it's SUPER OLD. It's PowerPC code, so it won't run on modern Intel Macs, in particular.

kinda. they worked under Rosetta up until (and including) Snow Leopard.. so if you're not on Lion yet, you're in luck!

supercarrot · **Posted:** Wed Jan 09, 2013 1:45 pm

i'm used to pre-CS photoshops, so these'll be great for me. :-)
(here's hoping the PC is shitty enough to be able to install it.)

i love indesign. seriously. like, so much!

solipsistnation · **Posted:** Wed Jan 09, 2013 1:47 pm

joshua wrote:

solipsistnation wrote:

Plus it's SUPER OLD. It's PowerPC code, so it won't run on modern Intel Macs, in particular.

kinda. they worked under Rosetta up until (and including) Snow Leopard.. so if you're not on Lion yet, you're in luck!

They sort of worked under Rosetta. My old (legit!) copy of Photoshop 4 or 5 or whatever stopped working a couple of upgrades ago.

daisychain · **Posted:** Wed Jan 09, 2013 2:09 pm

I saw this on my camera clubs website last night. Very excited because I badly need an editor for photos that does more than the basics. Installing now so I will let you know if it works on the latest updates on mac.

*edit*..... didn't work. crepe it!

Mars · **Posted:** Wed Jan 09, 2013 2:29 pm

Ugh I dont think I could stomach this old a version. :/

lavawitch · **Posted:** Wed Jan 09, 2013 3:04 pm

CS 2 is what I have. It works fine under Windows 7/8, but no longer under Lion.

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