UPDATE: There are conflicting reports about this. Gizmodo says it's a free giveaway. Some commenters to the article say it was meant only for people who already had a legit copy and needed to download it again. I don't know which is true, and since I have CS6, I'm not going to dig into this. I'm just trying to share what I thought could be a good deal for some people. In other words, if this isn't true, don't shoot the messenger.
Link:
Adobe - CS2 Downloads Grab Photoshop and CS2 For Absolutely Free Right Here
Sam Gibbs - Gizmodo UK
Adobe's giving us all a late Christmas present. You can grab yourself a free, legitimate copy of Photoshop and the rest of the Creative Suite 2, right now, direct from Adobe. No catch.
Well, unless you think having an Adobe account is a catch. Anyway, apparently Adobe's tired of keeping the activation servers running to support legitimate installs of the 10-year-old CS2, so it's decided to just give it away. Sounds great to me.
Handy if all you need is a quick image editor, Photoshop CS2 will still do all the basic things, just not the new fancy smart ‘content aware‘ stuff. Free's free, so get over to Adobe.com and get downloading. [Adobe via Twitter]
Update: The install for Mac is actually for Power PC devices, so you'll need Mac OS X v.10.2.8–v.10.3.8 or Rosetta to get it working.
Last edited by NiftyFifty; 01-08-2013 at 06:00 PM.