Adobe Photoshop CS2
Adobe have released the entire set of the CS2 Suite free of charge for all to use. They’ve provided the full license keys for these products and links to the installers for both PC and “Power PC” based Mac computers. This will be an excellent way of getting a copy of Photoshop onto your backup laptops and systems, perfect for use in an emergency. The release of this product appears to be down to the fact that Adobe are switching off their CS2 licensing servers. These links are to allow direct access to the files and fully valid product keys as an alternative for users still using this software. Whether they change their mind or not is yet to be seen. The CS2 software suite is now around 10 years old and fairly well out of date however it will still be useful for the times when you are stuck without your main edit system, or for those new users with fairly simple needs. The main “problem” you will have is the lack of RAW files support. CS2 will not support the majority of camera RAW data formats so you may wish to find a converter for your system. Saving the RAW files as a 16bit TIFF would be best when importing into CS2. If you’re into Audio editing Audition 3 is an excellent program that still functions perfectly for single and multi-track use, while Acrobat is perfect for those needing to create PDF files. Download Links can be found below:
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Creative Suite 2
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Mac
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1130-0412-8377-1896-9751-5759
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Win
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1130-1414-7569-4457-6613-5551
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Acrobat 3D 1.0 for Windows
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Win
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1159-1414-7569-3493-5006-5653
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Acrobat Standard 7.0
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Mac
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1016-0414-2428-7157-5404-6669
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Win
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1016-1415-6379-6184-1333-2468
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Acrobat Pro 8.0
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Mac
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1118-0416-1130-3724-2927-7040
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Win
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1118-1414-1955-8737-8172-0350
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Audition 3.0
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Win
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1137-1004-8571-6848-7845-8029
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GoLive CS2
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Mac
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1033-0415-6162-2671-3431-0993
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Win
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1033-1418-1610-5696-5209-0095
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Illustrator CS2
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Mac
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1034-0416-0740-0527-2887-2375
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Win
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1034-1415-6230-2341-2884-9398
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InCopy CS2
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Mac
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1036-0414-4367-5110-5897-2432
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Win
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1036-1419-3531-6378-2148-9313
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InDesign CS2
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Mac
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1037-0413-9961-4063-8457-1098
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Win
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1037-1412-5094-8316-6812-7982
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Photoshop CS2
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Mac
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1045-0410-5403-3188-5429-0639
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Win
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1045-1412-5685-1654-6343-1431
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Photoshop Elements 4.0/5.0
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Mac
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1057-0410-8218-6295-1699-9560
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Win
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1057-1414-3729-7573-7352-1206
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Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0
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Win
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1132-1280-4900-7476-5108-8019
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Adobe’s original download link: http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?pid=4485850&e=cs2_downloads If you want something more up to date, I’d recommend this link: Adobe’s more recent version, CS6
Update!
Here’s some further information regarding this “free software.” It appears Adobe are giving that software out as they have actually disabled their CS2 activation servers, however they seem to be offering this to licensed users. I’ve no idea how they plan to police this activation-free software which appears to be in the wild now. There’s probably thousands of sites that now host the details of this offering. More information on the release is available here: forums.adobe.com If Adobe decide that the above table of details is breaking their terms/copyright/whatever I advise them to contact me via the contact form on my site. I will remove the data upon request and confirmation of this being a valid request by Adobe.
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