I still have the download links for Adobe CS2 though, listed below. The serial for the Mac version is EDIT 2: Apparently they're not actually available for free, but if you sign into your Adobe account and go to the Adobe CS2 Download page, you can download all of CS2 and the license information for free. Free Photoshop Cs2 For Mac free download - Flv Crunch, Free Mac Data Recovery, AppCleaner, and many more programs.
You have an opportunity to download free Creative Suite CS2, Photoshop CS2, Premiere Pro 2.0, Photoshop Elements 4/5, Acrobat Pro 8.0, InDesign CS2, Illustrator CS2, InCopy CS2 from the official Adobe website. Despite the fact that it is an old version, it copes well with many common tasks that designers face.
Applications are available only in English. Also there are some restrictions for operating systems. To work in Adobe CS2, Mac processor is required with the Power PC and OS X 10.2 — 10.4 or a more modern Mac with the operating system 10.6.8 and not newer because you need Rosetta to start the applications. Situation is much better with Windows OS. The majority of applications will work in all versions.
Free Adobe CS2 Premium Plus package includes:
- Photoshop CS2
- Illustrator CS2
- Acrobat 3D 1.0
- Acrobat Standard 7.0
- Acrobat Pro 8.0
- Audition 3.0
- GoLive CS2
- InCopy CS2
- InDesign CS2
- Photoshop Elements 4.0/5.0
- Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0
As a test, I decided to download Illustrator CS2. In order to download the necessary product, follow the link http://www.adobe.com/downloads/cs2_downloads/index.html.
Because of the huge demand for free Adobe package, the download page might be temporary not available. That's OK, we will try again later. Unfortunately, the download speed is very low.
The installation process is quite standard, I don't think you'll have any questions to it.
On one of the installation stages the program will require the serial number which you can take from Adobe page provided in a table.
On the next stage, the program will require your registration, this is not necessary. Just click on Do Not Register.
I have a 64 bit operating system Windows 7. As we can see, Adobe Illustrator has started and works just fine.
According to the information available in the Internet it can be assumed that the free to download Adobe CS2 was the result of shutting down the server to activate the package Adobe CS2 and Acrobat 7 due to the technical failures. These products were released for more than 7 years ago and they don't work on many modern operating systems, but in order to provide all the owners of this version an opportunity of normal use, Adobe has published the serial numbers of the package Adobe CS2. This action has been interpreted as the distribution of Adobe software for free, but it was mostly done for the benefit of their clients. A company representative said that Adobe doesn't provide free copies of CS2, the page was intended for the users of the Adobe products who cannot activate their previously purchased software because the registration servers outdated products were turned off. That is, all the license restrictions remain.
Later, there appeared in the Internet some information from Adobe which says that there was indeed a mistake; as a result of which there is no possibility to control the use of these products. Therefore, Adobe will not apply any sanctions to the users who have downloaded CS2, on one condition: the products are not to be spread through torrent sites and other sites. And if in the beginning only authorized users had access to the page (i.e. it was necessary to have an account with Adobe), but now link to download CS2 is available for everyone.
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The following information might be very useful for existing and future users of ColorPerfect but please understand that Adobe does not offer product support for these downloads and that what you do with this information is your own responsibility.
On January 8th 2013 something very interesting happened. After Adobe had put the activation servers for all of their CS2 products out of service as of December 13th 2012 due to a technichal glitch (as they claim on their blog) they made the whole CS2 product line including Photoshop CS2 available to their customers using a static serial number per product.
They might have done that because the activation services could not be recovered and all of us who bought CS2 back in its day can since no longer activate the software using our actual serial numbers. Neither internet nor phone activation work anymore. That probably posed a legal problem for Adobe, we did buy unrestricted licenses without any 'end of life' as they call it. At first they seem to have released their static serial number solution to the problem on an internal page requiring existing customers to log-in using their Adobe IDs.
On January 8th 2013 Adobe decided to put all of this onto public web pages which makes Photoshop CS2 freely available to everyone who cares to get it. There were reports on this on January 7th but the reported pages were quickly offline again and there was a dementi from Adobe but then a day later the download pages were back and we'll list the links to the public download pages we found on this public Adobe Help page below.
On the aforementioned blog post Adobe sais 'While this might be interpreted as Adobe giving away software for free, we did it to help our customers', so while Adobe does not confirm that this software is being given away for free to everyone they also don't deny it. Whether they intend to help or to give the software away for free matters little as long as they don't restrict their downloads in any way. You'll have to sort out for yourself though what it means legally when major software makers like Adobe offer their old products along with a serial number on their public web page.
Are the Adobe Creative Suite 2 downloads legal or are they not?
There is a funny controversy developing in some of the posts on this subject you'll find on various forums and web pages. On the one hand people approached Adobe complaining that they paid thousands of dollars for this software and that it's freely available now. To calm this down Adobe representatives have said on such forums that of course the software is only intended for those who did previously buy a license. On the other hand intentions declared on forums are pretty irrelevant. There is no clear official statement, the blog post we quoted above is totally ambiguous and the actual download pages continue to be public and completely devoid of any such purpose declaration. There are no extra conditions for you agree to in order to download the software or to see its static serial numbers. The EULA you are presented when installing the software sais 'If you obtained the Software from Adobe or one of its authorized licensees and as long as you comply with the terms of this agreement, Adobe grants you a non-exclusive license to use the Software in the manner and for the purposes described in the Documentation, as further set forth below.' It says nothing about having purchased the software except where it comes to warranty, transferability of licenses and the like but as we pointed out before you'll have to sort out what all of this means legally for yourself.
These downloads might be gone anytime so save whatever you need before the offer gets pulled again
From past experience we recommend you to get a copy of anything you're interested in because offers like this one generally are subject to change and might as well get pulled altogether later. Should the above links cease to work sometime you might want to try visiting them using www.archive.org's way back machine to see them as they looked after January 8th 2013.
Photoshop CS2 and Creative Suite CS2 download pages at www.adobe.com (with serial numbers)
ENGLISH (original link): http://www.adobe.com/downloads/cs2_downloads/index.html
ENGLISH (at archive.org): http://www.adobe.com/downloads/cs2_downloads/index.html
GERMAN (original link): http://www.adobe.com/de/downloads/cs2_downloads/index.html
GERMAN (at archive.org): http://www.adobe.com/de/downloads/cs2_downloads/index.html
FRENCH (original link): http://www.adobe.com/fr/downloads/cs2_downloads/index.html
FRENCH (at archive.org): http://www.adobe.com/fr/downloads/cs2_downloads/index.html
JAPANESE (original link): http://www.adobe.com/jp/downloads/cs2_downloads/index.html
JAPANESE (at archive.org): http://www.adobe.com/jp/downloads/cs2_downloads/index.html
Creative Suite CS2 download pages (currently) without Photoshop CS2
SPANISH (original link): http://www.adobe.com/es/downloads/cs2_downloads/index.html
SPANISH (at archive.org): http://www.adobe.com/es/downloads/cs2_downloads/index.html
ITALIAN (original link): http://www.adobe.com/it/downloads/cs2_downloads/index.html
ITALIAN (at archive.org): http://www.adobe.com/it/downloads/cs2_downloads/index.html
We know that Photoshop CS2 existed in these languages. It was on the Production Studio Premium multi language installer disk set we bought back when CS2 was current. If you own a license of Photoshop CS2 in either language - which you won't be able to activate anymore as it seems - you'll have to contact your local Adobe customer service to have them solve that problem for you.
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Windows operating systems supported by Photoshop CS2: Windows XP through Windows 8
The Photoshop CS2 stand alone installer offered by Adobe officially supported Windows 2000 and Windows XP but it can be installed on Windows Vista, 7 and 8 in both their 32-Bit and 64-Bit versions without any problems. For the other CS2 products offered that might well be different, we only tried Photoshop CS2 with Win 7 and 8. There have been reports that the Creative Suite CS2 installer causes trouble there while the stand alone installers work fine.
Photoshop CS2's OS X support: 10.4 (natively), 10.5 and 10.6 (maybe using Rosetta), virtual Windows
On the Mac Photoshop CS2 was the last version compiled for Power PC processors so this might be much less interesting than the Windows version. Photoshop CS2 for OS X runs natively on OS X 10.4 Tiger which we officially support. With Apple's Rosetta emulation software it might also run on Intel Macs using OS X 10.5 Leopard and 10.6 Snow Leopard. We do not officially support Rosetta installations for ColorPerfect. There have been repots of problems involving Rosetta that could not be reproduced on actual Power PCs. You are free to experiment but please note that while we are interested in hearing about any problems you encounter there is absolutely no guarantee that any of them will be solved in future releases. Rosetta is not included in either Lion or Mountain Lion so Photoshop CS2 for OS X won't work there.
The best thing to do for those using either of the Lions might be getting a free virtualization software like virtual box, installing any Windows version starting with Windows XP as a virtual machine and to use Photoshop CS2 in that. Probably this is even worthwhile on OS X 10.5 and OS X 10.6 since the Windows version of Photoshop CS2 has been compiled for the Intel platform rather than for the Power PC.
Not supported by CameraRAW? ColorPerfect adds support for hundreds of digital cameras to Photoshop CS2
While it was developed to solve problems inherent to all current digital imaging systems and thus to greatly improve color quality and flexibility ColorPerfect's PerfectRAW does something more down-to-earth for Photoshop CS2, too: It adds the Camera support Adobe never added to the Adobe Camera RAW 3.x that shipped with Photoshop CS2. They use the support of new cameras as a sales proposition for upgrades where we don't. Our philosophy is different in that respect. We have never charged anyone for upgrades to begin with.
Adobe Photoshop Creative Suite Cs2
All you need to do to use PerfectRAW is drop any RAW file on our auxiliary program MakeTiff, open the resulting Tiff with Photoshop and process it with ColorPerfect where you'll tick the PerfectRAW checkbox. The general workflow for this will need some learning but after a while you will really be astonished what you can do with it - beyond what you ever could with other software.