Adobe offers its Creative Suite 2 for free download – © Adobe.com

Adobe is making a „Happy New Year“ present to everyone by giving away its Creative Suite 2 (and some other programs) for free. Of course this software has already gathered some dust since its release in 2005. Yet it offers great tools for photo and video editing as well as other tasks (layout, vector, etc.). Certainly Photoshop CS2 does not support the latest RAW files and lacks some fancy features, but it still beats most of the freeware tools available today. The following software is available for free download at Adobe’s website:

• Creative Suite 2 (the whole package)
• Acrobat Standard 7.0
• Acrobat Pro 8.0
• Acrobat 3D 1.0 for Windows
• Audition 3.0
• GoLive CS2
• Illustrator CS2
• InCopy CS2
• InDesign CS2
• Photoshop CS2
• Photoshop Elements 4.0/5.0
• Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0

To gain access to the download site, you only have to claim a free Adobe ID. If you are an Adobe customer, you should already have one. The Windows version of CS2 works fine even with the latest version of the operating system. Apple users are only able to install it on machines running Mac OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard or lower. If you run Mac OS X 10.7 or higher on your computer, it requires a newer, still pretty expensive version of the Creative Suite.

posted January 7th 2013 by Andreas Rumpf
categories: news, photography