Free Adobe Photoshop CS2, Acrobat Pro 8, Creative Studio 2, and more!
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Ever think the day would come when you would see Photoshop — and other high-value Adobe products — as freebies? Yeah, well, me neither. In what can only be termed as a strange rarity, Adobe has put up a page on their website that allows everyone to download the following Adobe programs for free:
- Adobe Creative Studio 2
- Acrobat 3D 1.0 for Windows
- Acrobat Standard 7.0
- Acrobat Pro 8.0
- Audition 3.0
- GoLive CS2
- Illustrator CS2
- InCopy CS2
- InDesign CS2
- Photoshop CS2
- Photoshop Elements 4.0/5.0
- Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0
Sure the freebies may be of old versions, but even old versions of software like Photoshop and Acrobat Pro are still useable and better than many rivals.
That said, it should be noted these freebies are a bit controversial.
You see the page on Adobe’s website that has the download links and serial keys is a public page accessible by anyone (i.e. no access restrictions) and it does not mention any special preconditions, e.g. it does not say that these downloads are only for a select group or people. This seemingly indicates that everyone can rightfully grab the freebies. However, there was a post made on Adobe forums (not by an official Adobe representative, just a forums member) stating that Adobe’s official stance is that the downloads found on the above-mentioned page are only for people who bought the product in the past.
As far as I know, Adobe itself has yet to come out and issue an official statement about the freebies and, interestingly enough, the forum post I mention above has now been deleted. So it isn’t entirely clear how legitimate or illegitimate the freebies are. However, they are available directly from Adobe so… yeah, grab ‘em while you can (at your own risk, of course).
Hit up the link below to find download links and serial keys for all of the above-mentioned software. All of the programs are available for Windows and most are available for Mac OS X, too. Simply download the programs, install them, and activate them with the provided serial keys.
Adobe CS2 software download page
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All this makes me REALLY wanna play with it!
If any of you have a 2nd PC, I would install these programs into that.
Some Adobe Installs are massive
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@Ed:
Ed, I am afraid you are mistaken.
I have downloaded PS CS2
Audidtion 3
and Premeire Pro
ALL of them installed without any problems what so ever. When I started each one for the first time, it asked for the serial number, which I copied and pasted from the site in this article. I have been using each for 5 days now, and I can tell you , they work perfectly.
WinXP
I’m happy and thankful for this article Ashraf, you came through again. Thanks a million, I have always wanted photoshop even if it is an old copy..
@Rob (Down Under):
Hey Rob.
Yea the downloads are pretty massive. I can tell you about the ones I got.
Photoshop stand alone
PhSp_CS2_English.exe — 340 MB
Audition 3
ADBEAudition_ESD1_WWEFGJIS.exe — 352 MB
Premeire Pro 2
PPRO_2.0_Ret-NH_UE.zip — 1.01 GB
I’m sure you know that Photoshop is a vector graphics image creation and manipulation program.
Audition 3 is a program similar to apple Rock Band. The add on files you see associated with it are assorted sound samples and loops used for the quick creation of songs in the main mixer and editor. Drums, guitars, keyboard synth voices, ect.
They are not needed, but do expand the programs abilites ten fold for a beginner.
Premeire Pro is a non linear movie composer and effects editor. Kinda like a Windows Movie Maker on that stuff Lance Armstrong was taking.. :)
My only wish is that they had offered Flash. But I cant have my cake and eat it too :)
Hope this helps.
Jason
I’m only seeing Acrobat 7 Pro on the site, not 8.
[@Bill]
“It is an ill wind that blows nobody no good”
Your post was hanging around in my memory overnight. I tried to look up what I had downloaded, yesterday, but they were not on my main PC, as I must have moved them somewhere to save space. My images of my main PC are big already, so I could not afford them making my images bigger. The question is, where did I move them to ?
Turned on my PC today, and it froze on boot. Managed eventually to get into Safe Mode and did an XP System Restore. That fixed my booting problem. I reckon that the recent FF upgrade stuufed it. My two reasons -
(1) Lost all my open Tabs since that upgrade. Two flippin windows must have been open, and the one with only one tab in it must have closed last. I HATE THAT. I have it set to only open new Tabs (not windows), but still that can flippin happen. AGH!
(2) When the System Restore completed it listed two corrupt folders that it had fixed, and they were FF related.
Back to the good news, I decided to make an image, immediately after the System Restore had completed. My regular dock’d drive is pretty full, so
I used my newer 2TB drive. Whilst in there, I noticed that all my Adobe downloads are in there.
If you like I can email you the Adobe download page, as it looked at the time (I save everything). Whilst opening my .mht copy, it proffers the original link which I also loaded. You are correct, they are different.
If you would like to see the original page, –
robhp AT iprimus DOT com DOT au
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I got Photoshop CS2 to replace my old Photoshop 6 install.
Works fine. Thanks!
Wenda.