Creative Suite 2.0 Mac ESD Installation Instructions June 2005 Installing Adobe Creative Suite (2.0 Premium and Standard on Mac OS) Finding the downloaded files When the download is complete, check the destination folder to make sure that it contains all the files you need to install Adobe Creative Suite.

Get a free host for ColorPerfect - Photoshop CS2 is available for download from Adobe at no charge 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. Buy windows for mac. 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 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 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 '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): ENGLISH (at archive.org): GERMAN (original link): GERMAN (at archive.org): FRENCH (original link): FRENCH (at archive.org): JAPANESE (original link): JAPANESE (at archive.org): Creative Suite CS2 download pages (currently) without Photoshop CS2 SPANISH (original link): SPANISH (at archive.org): ITALIAN (original link): ITALIAN (at archive.org): 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. Did this page help you? Please vote +1 for it on Google Plus.