Click here for the Slashdot report; won't directly link Adobe products here. lolol

That sounds interesting. Going to stick with my constantly updated PS CS6 personally but if I was not already paying the monthly subscription I might consider it.

I've been wanting to get AI for a long time. Installed it in my XP VM and it works great. Hate to say this, but thankyou Adobe. lolol

Haven't decided if I'm going to install Acrobat 8.0 Pro yet though; little if any need for it.

Something like 75% of all Adobe software is pirated. It isn't surprising they've decided to give it away.

I tried to install Acrobat 3D but when I install it needs a serial number. How did you guys do it?

Alan

Oh I see the serial numbers are next to the download link.

Who needs these programs when you have Open Source software?

Thank you so much for sharing, lyle!

I just needed Adobe Illustrator because gradient mesh won't be a feature in Inkscape at least until version 2.0 (hopefully it will).
Now I got it and it makes it so much easier to render vector images i'm currently working on!
I needed that

so if I wanted to try and download the whole CS2 suite for windows 7, which download would I pick from that long list?

tss, who wants adobe stuff anyway! i'm happy with my open source programs .

GIMP will always be my main crutch Anmal, but GIMP and Open Source software in general can't do it all. Click image below (from there, you can click the image for the hirez result) for something that would take days to do right in GIMP but only minutes in DAP for instance.

Out of curiosity, tried to run Photoshop CS2 under Linux+Wine. Would not work well, froze up and crashed. Then again that might more be to do with running tablet drivers under Wine than anything.
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Griatch

Maybe you need just some win dll in your wine/ C / system32 or 64 folder

But for such popular programs you should find plenty of info on the wine site, for sure the adobe suite was tested not sure with what results.

As these commercial products became standard in the graphic industry, this give-away might come handy for those who want to work in this field but have been trained on open source software..

Is it really legal?
http://www.forbes.com/sites/adriankingsleyhughes/2013/01/07/download-adobe-cs2-applications-for-free/
To me it's just another marketing gimmick ....

Thanks Lyle. I'll still be using Gimp mostly but PS might have some advantages for me as well.

I'm using GIMP and Inkscape since 2009-10, before that I had Adobe CS1.
Power surge toasted my older PC and the whole Suite with it, which was no longer supported.
With new PC I turned to Open Source software. It's been a great time in terms of learning new sophisticated software and having a big deal of fun, but...
Still missing some features.

Comparing GIMP and PS, Inkscape and Illustrator, I can only hope some key features will be realized in GIMP and Inkscape rather sooner than later.
For now they are either in early stages of development or not even being considered by the development teams.
And i'm talking about features which have been around for many years now.

It's not about the allegiance to proprietary or open source software.
By and large, GIMP as a software that is being developed these days for the needs of high-end professional users (as stated many times by the development team), nevertheless, lacks some key features, which are a must have category, to back up those claims.
Inkscape is widely used by the pros, but it misses fewer key features compared to Ai.
I already mentioned here the feature I would love to see in Inkscape, it's Mesh Gradient. So the Inkscape dev team thinks it's an important feature and hopefully it will be realized in v.2.0 (2014-15?)
It's available in Ai 8 since 2005 and for those who are wondering what it is






and what it is for - see usage examples here or just google 'gradient mesh art'


Was I hesitant to get Ai back on my PC? No. Will I get PS CS2? Not sure. But higher bit depth, correct layer modes, PS Actions and Macro recording among other few things look tempting.

which of the win choices would I pick to download the whole cs2 suite? There are too many choices! I want to put the whole suite on our pc so I can play around with it. I already did get photoshop, but now I want it all, lol.

Here is the download link I was directed to. http://www.adobe.com/downloads/cs2_downloads/index.html It links directly to adobe's website.

I am just checking stuff out at this point. There is so much hype around how good it is compared to other open source software such as Gimp I want to compare myself. Other things I hear is, Oh my god I can't learn Gimp it is so hard and different. Like Mike's comment about it. Every time I run across someone who brags it up I find out they have a pirated version. I say why not just get Gimp then at least you are not being dishonest. There is more to it but I won't get into it. lol I just like proving we Gimpers can do wonderful work too, when someone says oh that is really nice, I say thank you I did it in Gimp and they are like oh?

I am impressed with you guys here many own both and know so much about each program and have no prejudices, but use each program for things that can't be accomplished in one or the other. Then you teach or come up with plugins or filters to help out the Gimp community. All I can say it is great!