Get Adobe Photoshop CS2 for free officially

[yogiholzer]

It is reported that you can now get Adobe Photoshop CS2 and some other Adobe software officially for free.
http://www.chip.de/news/Photoshop-kostenlos-Windows-und-Mac-Downloads_59762624.html

Download through this site: http://www.chip.de/downloads/Vollversion-Photoshop-CS2_59762951.html
I still wasn't able to get it as the site seems to be overburdened.

Anyone please save a copy with an official serial number for me if you get access to it please, as I can't try
again nearly a full day later from now on and I'm not sure if the offer is still there then. I want a version for
Win 7 64 bit. The serial number should be shown near the download button at the Adobe site. One needs
an Adobe account. I already created one, but the download site wasn't available. Thank you.

[Itchigo]

Unofficially, I could help you out...... ;)  I have cs5.

[sleepy]

This is the German Adobe CS2 download page.

http://www.adobe.com/de/downloads/cs2_downloads/

This is the English Adobe CS2 download page:

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

I guess Creative Suite includes all of the CS2 programs such as Photoshop CS,
but they are also giving away Audition 3.0 which is an Audio Sound Editor (Hey Tii), and Illustrator CS which is a drawing program.

THANK YOU Yogi! :)

[Itchigo]

Tii isn't here yet Sleepy, but he's invited to the party if you can bring him in.

[yogiholzer]

About Adobe Photoshop CS2: I'm not absolutely sure and I don't really know if it's a correct way to get it,
but it's still available and the serial numbers are still shown, although Adobe seems to be informed.
Today the information is published on other sites too. I think it's a little bit different, if there were working
serial numbers published from anyone else, but they directly come form Adobe.

I just downloaded Photoshop CS2 from the link I posted yesterday. The serial number is shown right from
the download link there. Who knows, maybe it's kind of promotion for the actual program versions? CS2
is from 2005, so it's more than 7 years old. If it's finally not correct, I will delete it later.

[faralos]

FYI I have a high speed Verizon Fios connection
and still it takes about twenty minutes for the download

[Pintrepid]

PLEASE NOTE:

Adobe is NOT giving away their CS2 software for free! Sorry ...

According to http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1114930, the software provided is for existing licensed users of the CS2 software, if they need to reactivate their Adobe installations. Being older software, Adobe had decided to discontinue the server they were using for CS2 activations. The provided files will require an existing licensed serial number to allow installation. The new serial numbers that are posted with the files will then be used with the new install once authentication is approved.

I rather thought that was strange that Adobe would be just "giving away" their stuff. They may should have explained this better when they posted the fylez  :P

[sleepy]

Well that just tears it!  ;)

[Pintrepid]

There's always the unauthorized way.

Or openSource ... GIMP is every bit as good as Photoshop, and really is free.

[Itchigo]

It is. I find myself going to Gimp whenever there's something I don't understand in PS too. Trouble is, I don't get either...... ::)

[yogiholzer]

 :-\

Isn't it to understand that Adobe knows about and lets people use the software anyway?
Isn't it compareable with the pinball manufacturers who let us use roms?

There was a VP course at the old forum and I took part from the beginning, but I had to
cancel later, mainly because the freeware graphics software I used didn't work the same
as PS and I didn't find the corresponding commands in the software and I wasn't able to
translate and then find them in the german language version of the software. I used an
older version of PhotoFiltre http://www.photofiltre.com/, which didn't support
layers in an earlier versions. I think I tried Photoscape as well. Gimp was totally different
from view and operation. Who knows, maybe I was a table author today else.  ???

[Itchigo]

Yogi, I can help you become an author if you like. Either use my precoded template, or I can make more precoded games.

[sleepy]

I like GIMP for a lot of things, but I notice the Lighting Effects have a problem of blowing up the image/pushing the pixels out of their original positions and this behavior is not usable when adding lightning effects to decompiled RGB layers or on stripped layers which are then supposed to be re-composited on top of the original image. It blurs badly.
And the Lighting Effects > Spotlight insists on staying to the center of the image frame. I cannot move the spotlight over to where a slingshot light would be.

Maybe there's something I don't know.

[yogiholzer]

Yogi, I can help you become an author if you like. Either use my precoded template, or I can make more precoded games.

I have to learn English first!  :o

In fact it's very anstrengend http://dict.leo.org/ende?lp=ende&lang=de&searchLoc=0&cmpType=relaxed&sectHdr=on&spellToler=&search=anstrengend
for me to read, write, understand English. Additionally there are no or no special skills in scripting, graphics editing, ... (can be continued endless). And I don't have
the time and the patience, especially in relation to my demands. It's already a long time ago that I gave up the ideas and illusions, but I still think it's the best I could
have done to not crack completely. Instead I chosed to try to give back the best I can do to the community and that was mostly help and support in different situations.
Table graphics search and own photos in early times, VP+, VPMan, 3DArcade, PINemHi, forum talk, installation, gallery, ..., what else and I'm comfortable with that, but
I don't think I can be from use much in future. About FS and cabs and all the software around I don't have any clue.

[Itchigo]

See, the attraction of the precoded games is that you only add sounds and whatever images you like. But it's ok, I understand. I appreciate all you've done- even if it was before my time in the vp world. Also, you don't need to know how to do fs, or any of that. The easiest way is to build in desktop first.