Adobe is offering many of their CS2 software for free for PC and Mac.

Makes sense - people who would actually pay for Adobe software probably wouldn't settle for a free 6-7 year-old version, and people who wouldn't pay for Photoshop anyhow will use the free versions, meaning (a) it's now really hard to be "the cheaper Photoshop" if you're a competitor, and (b) once the guys using the free CS2 can afford to buy this sort of software, they'll probably get CS6 instead of a competitor because they're more familiar with it.

I've seen this linked on other sites I use, but what is unclear is if we're meant to have access to this.<p>It would be nice to see a notice from Adobe announcing this as freely available to the public.<p>I'm just uncomfortable with the fact that this potentially could be some individual's screw up and that for all intents and purposes we're pirating it (since there is no licence).

CS2 is not a Universal App on Macs, so this takes a PowerPC Mac, or Mac OS old enough to run Rosetta (Snow Leopard).

Seems to be down now:<p><i>Site Area Temporarily Unavailable<p>We're sorry, the site area you've requested is unavailable. Please try again later</i><p>Or maybe it's US only?

I could access this on my mobile about an hour ago, but now it's just showing this error:<p>-----<p>Site Area Temporarily Unavailable<p>We're sorry, the site area you've requested is unavailable. Please try again later.<p>-----<p>It's so frustrating to miss out on stuff like this.

I found this article online which gives more details on this offering : <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/2013/01/07/grab-adobe-creative-suite-2-including-adobe-photoshop-for-free/" rel="nofollow">http://www.ghacks.net/2013/01/07/grab-adobe-creative-suite-2...</a>

<a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/adriankingsleyhughes/2013/01/07/download-adobe-cs2-applications-for-free/" rel="nofollow">http://www.forbes.com/sites/adriankingsleyhughes/2013/01/07/...</a><p>"No, You Can't Download Adobe CS2 Applications For Free"

It appears they now have a hard redirect set up, so I would say this was a mistake.

On the other hand, the links have this string in them: &#60;snip&#62;/CS2_EOL/&#60;snip&#62;<p>So maybe they decided to give it away, because it's EOL'd sooo hard. Let's see how this develops :)

This is great for all the people at work who insist they need photoshop to crop and resize a few pictures.

Is the site down for everybody now?