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Adobe is giving away the CS2 version of their powerful suite of video, photo and design apps.

I have a geniune copy of CS2. I have changed my computer and want to install it. I have done this and could not activate if. I am now out of the 30 day free trial period. Have contacted adobe but no help. Serial vs parallel dilution method. I have found on adobes website where I can download CS2 as I have a geniune copy. I have searched high and low on the adobe website for CS2, which i understand is free, and I cannot locate it anywhere. Can someone please provide - 10585799.

UPDATE from Kevin Monahan, Sr. Content and Community Lead for Adobe After Effects and Premiere Pro:

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Page 298 ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR CS2 291 User Guide The Reshape tool adjusts The Free Transform tool (E) The Blend tool (W) creates a selected anchor points while scales, rotates, or skews a series of objects blended keeping the overall detail of selection.

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“Effective December 13, Adobe disabled the activation server for CS2 products and Acrobat 7 because of a technical glitch. These products were released over 7 years ago and do not run on many modern operating systems. But to ensure that any customers activating those old versions can continue to use their software, we issued a serial number directly to those customers. While this might be interpreted as Adobe giving away software for free, we did it to help our customers.”

Thanks for letting us know, Kevin!

Mac and PC users rejoice, Adobe has recently offered up a FREE download of their professional Creative Suite 2. Although CS2 was intially released in 2005, many of the apps still have the same powerful features as their newer successors. Included in this suite is:

Acrobat 3D
Acrobat Standard 7.0
Acrobat Pro 8.0
Audition 3.0
GoLive
Illustrator
InCopy
InDesign
Photoshop
Photoshop Elements
Adobe Premiere Pro

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Note: If you have a newer computer/operating system you may have a bit of trouble running this version. Lifehacker points out this forum for tips on getting it working on Windows 8 and new Mac systems.

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You will have to signup for an Adobe account to download (if you don’t already have one) but signup is free. A great deal on a powerful software package for graphic designers, video editors and creative content creators!

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