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Adobe not giving away free anything
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Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
So like, can't I just save the codes and register them in the website? Or do I need to download the program first? Don't they have something like tying programs to your account?
blainethemono
Member
Okay I figured it out
Basically the disc 2 .exe doesn't extract its folders to the right place. They extract to their own folder on the C drive. I guess this is why the error comes up about it not being able to create the folder in the first place. If you check the archives with 7zip or something you can see where it's messed up.
The Adobe InDesign CS2 and Adobe Version Cue CS2 folders from the disc 2 exe extract to C:\Creative Suite, but they should be in C:\Creative Suite CS2\Adobe Creative Suite 2.0 with all the rest of the folders. If you move in there after running the .exe normally or just extract them to the proper place with 7zip, the installer should work fine
Basically the disc 2 .exe doesn't extract its folders to the right place. They extract to their own folder on the C drive. I guess this is why the error comes up about it not being able to create the folder in the first place. If you check the archives with 7zip or something you can see where it's messed up.
The Adobe InDesign CS2 and Adobe Version Cue CS2 folders from the disc 2 exe extract to C:\Creative Suite, but they should be in C:\Creative Suite CS2\Adobe Creative Suite 2.0 with all the rest of the folders. If you move in there after running the .exe normally or just extract them to the proper place with 7zip, the installer should work fine
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
LIGHTNING SPEEDS HERE
5MBPS all up on this.
Thanks for linking this
5MBPS all up on this.
Thanks for linking this
CS2 versions of these programs don't authenticate against a server. The codes just authenticate against the installer.
WickedCobra03
Member
Great. I am in!
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
Grabbed about 3GB of stuff in what seemed like 10 minutes, copied the keys to a text file and tucked it all away in a folder for me to deal with after work.
Good deal.
Good deal.
legacyzero
Banned
I have my login. I just hope this is going when I get home later
zerokoolpsx
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Lord Error
Insane For Sony
I use PS CS2 for basic stuff at work because it's lighter on resources, and it's great really. You get almost everything there, including adjustment layers, layer styles (effects layers), and smart objects (lets you apply transforms infinitely with no quality loss). Then there's great Reduce Noise filter which is fantastic for digital photography and removing JEG artifacts. Just these few things make it far better than something like PIxelmator, and it's free now
Context Fill / Context Brush is the big one. Also effects applying on Smart Objects. There's also 3D stuff, but most people don't use PS for that anyway.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
Ah...
I haven't worked much with Elements but if you're just doing minor touch up it's more than sufficient. However for me there's no alternative to the full version and it's all about the interface. Also if you want to work in other color spaces, like CMYK, you need the full version.
As long as it's free I really don't see a reason for not getting it.
blainethemono
Member
finally got the CS suite installer to work and tried to run ps and got this
anonymous_abc
Member
awesome, thanks OP
Ken Masters
Banned
on my imac, after downloading photoshop, it said I didn't have enough disk space, I have over 1TB of free space
FalsettoVibe
Member
Awesome. Downloading CS2 now!
Monkeylord
Member
So... I can download the files and run the installer on my desktop, and then do the same on my laptop and the codes will work on both?
My desktop is at home, and on so I can do it now at a push (have to remote control using my phone), but my laptop is with me and won't be connected to the internet till I get home from work (about 3.5hrs from now).
Charoncaori
Member
Thank you, this is really cool.
zerokoolpsx
Member
What is in Audition 3.0? Specifically ADBEAudition_loopolgy.7z? It's over 4GB to download. Nevermind. It's audio editing.
I guess my biggest concern is the age of CS2 and how it'll behave alongside lightroom
Takamura-San
Member
so i can finally make gifs now!?
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Paint.net is a decent program for general use. I don't know why it isn't bundled with windows instead of MS Paint.
Lord Error
Insane For Sony
From what I've seen, CS2 opens even CS6 PSD files just fine. Some things it cannot interpret, like effects on smart objects, so you lose that, but 99.9% of the time, things work out fine.
legacyzero
Banned
So isn't this 100s of dollars in software?
This is a crazy deal, or an error if so.
This is a crazy deal, or an error if so.
Photosynthesis
Member
It's old, so they're giving it away. Good for building customer loyalty.
I've been using that for years, it gets the job done, you can even make gifs with some external plugins and has a nice clean UI. v4 in development looks pretty cool too.
It has nothing do to with microsoft, they need something like that bundled though.
Yep, error page here. Trying to get my Adobe ID to work is proving slow too.
Stormwatch
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I keep getting unexpected errors when I try to extract the files from the zip. I've downloaded Premiere a couple times and each time I get an error in a different spot when extracting.
Major sites like Gizmodo have picked up on this, so the traffic is probably pretty crazy by now. Also, people on the west coast are starting to get up now, so that's a whole other group of people trying to get their free stuff.
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