Free Photoshop

[ffutures]

Adobe are giving away Photoshop and CS2 free of charge - you have to register, but that's it. Right now the site is either snowed under or down, so it may be best to wait a day or two. Full details are here:

http://gizmodo.com/5973730/grab-photoshop-and-cs2-for-absolutely-free-right-here

The Mac version, incidentally, is for PowerPC chipsets, not Intel.

Update sorry, someone messed up at Adobe, this turns out to be untrue, see:
http://www.diyphotography.net/download-adobe-cs2-for-free
for the true story

And another update It's back on line, nobody seems to know what's going on, but I'm just installing Acrobat 8 for mac and it seems to be OK - I'm a legit user of the PC version so I won't feel guilty about this if it turns out to be another error. See

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

Comments

[gonzo21.livejournal.com]

That's an extraordinarily good offer. I wonder why they're doing that.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Turns out they aren't - see the other comment.

[gonzo21.livejournal.com]

Ah, somebody at adobe gaffed bigtime. I wonder what they'll do about the many thousands of people who got in and downloaded before they noticed?

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

I think that they will lack a valid serial number, so it isn't a huge problem for Adoobe - the idea was apparently to provide a version that didn't need on-line activation, rather than to remove security completely.

Though I suspect it wouldn't be impossible to get hold of serial numbers from pirate sources etc.

[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

It was just some confusion. It wasn't a free offer at all:
http://www.diyphotography.net/download-adobe-cs2-for-free

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[bohemiancoast.livejournal.com]

Irritatingly, I'm one of the people who the original plan was aimed at -- I still use Adobe CS2. (though admittedly, not on my primary desktop computer where I have the still out of date but more recent CS5). I want to have an activation free copy and serials tucked away but I'm guess I'm going to have to wait for the fuss to die down.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Bummer...

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Apparently it is still happening after all - see

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

[bohemiancoast.livejournal.com]

Yup, got them now. I use CS5 these days, but am still dithering about what to do next -- I will not be able to upgrade from 5 to 7, cannot really justify an upgrade to 6 at the moment, am outraged that Adobe Cloud costs $50 per month in the US (which I might be able to stretch to) or £50 a month in the UK (which I truly can't), (though as an existing customer I get a first year discount) and really am wondering about just saying that I'm going to stop using their tools when CS5 runs out.