Incredibly, Adobe has decided to give away free copies of its Creative Suite 2 (CS2) package – so users can pick up a totally legitimate, free copy of former top-of-the-range products like Photoshop CS2, Illustrator CS2 and Premiere 2.0.
Although the CS2 is getting on for ten years old, it’s still a hugely powerful software package which is easily good enough for to line work today.
So why has Adobe suddenly got so generous? Well, according to Gizmodo, they simply got fed up keeping the activation servers running to support legitimate installations of CS2, so decided to offer the thole thing up for free
Here’s the programs that are available for download:
Acrobat 3D 1.0
Acrobat Standard 7.0
Acrobat Pro 8.0
Audition 3.0
GoLive CS2
Illustrator CS2
InCopy CS2
InDesign CS2
Photoshop CS2
Photoshop Elements 4.0/5.0
Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0
And here’s the direct links to download them all for free. Note that Adobe’s servers are getting hammered at the moment so it may take a while for the program to download.
Direct Downloads
Creative Suite 2
Mac
Serial: 1130-0412-8377-1896-9751-5759
http://download.adobe.com/pub/adobe/magic/creativesuite/CS2_EOL/MLTI/CS2_install_Mac.pdf
http://download.adobe.com/pub/adobe/magic/creativesuite/CS2_EOL/STES/CS_20_IE_NonRet_D1.dmg.bin
http://download.adobe.com/pub/adobe/magic/creativesuite/CS2_EOL/STES/CS_20_IE_NonRet_D2.dmg.bin
http://download.adobe.com/pub/adobe/magic/creativesuite/CS2_EOL/STES/CS_20_IE_NonRet_D3.dmg.bin
http://download.adobe.com/pub/adobe/magic/creativesuite/CS2_EOL/MLTI/VCS2.dmg
http://download.adobe.com/pub/adobe/magic/creativesuite/CS2_EOL/MLTI/CS_2.0_IE_Extras_1.dmg.binWin
Serial: 1130-1414-7569-4457-6613-5551
http://download.adobe.com/pub/adobe/magic/creativesuite/CS2_EOL/MLTI/CS2_install_Win.pdf
http://download.adobe.com/pub/adobe/magic/creativesuite/CS2_EOL/MLTI/CreativeSuiteCS2Disc1.exe
http://download.adobe.com/pub/adobe/magic/creativesuite/CS2_EOL/MLTI/CreativeSuiteCS2Disc2.exe
http://download.adobe.com/pub/adobe/magic/creativesuite/CS2_EOL/MLTI/CreativeSuiteCS2Disc3.exe
http://download.adobe.com/pub/adobe/magic/creativesuite/CS2_EOL/MLTI/VCS2.zip
http://download.adobe.com/pub/adobe/magic/creativesuite/CS2_EOL/MLTI/CS_2.0_WWE_Extras_1.exeAcrobat 3D 1.0 for Windows
Serial: 1159-1414-7569-3493-5006-5653
http://download.adobe.com/pub/adobe/magic/creativesuite/CS2_EOL/AC3D/AC3D_1.0_Volume_NACK_WWE.zipAcrobat Standard 7.0
Mac
Serial: 1016-0414-2428-7157-5404-6669
http://download.adobe.com/pub/adobe/magic/creativesuite/CS2_EOL/ACRO/12001748.dmgWin
Serial: 1016-1415-6379-6184-1333-2468
http://download.adobe.com/pub/adobe/magic/creativesuite/CS2_EOL/ACRO/22001904.exeAcrobat Pro 8.0
Mac
Serial: 1118-0416-1130-3724-2927-7040
http://download.adobe.com/pub/adobe/magic/creativesuite/CS2_EOL/STEP/APRO8_Mac_WEB_WWEFG.dmgWin
Serial: 1118-1414-1955-8737-8172-0350
http://download.adobe.com/pub/adobe/magic/creativesuite/CS2_EOL/STEP/APRO23_Win_ESD1_WWEFG.exeAudition 3.0
Win
Serial: 1137-1004-8571-6848-7845-8029
http://download.adobe.com/pub/adobe/magic/creativesuite/CS2_EOL/AUDT/ADBEAudition_loopolgy.exe
http://download.adobe.com/pub/adobe/magic/creativesuite/CS2_EOL/AUDT/ADBEAudition_ESD1_WWEFGJIS.exe
http://download.adobe.com/pub/adobe/magic/creativesuite/CS2_EOL/AUDT/ADBEAudition_loopolgy.7zGoLive CS2
Mac
Serial: 1033-0415-6162-2671-3431-0993
http://download.adobe.com/pub/adobe/magic/creativesuite/CS2_EOL/GLIVE/GL_CS2_UE_NonRet.dmg.binWin
Serial: 1033-1418-1610-5696-5209-0095
http://download.adobe.com/pub/adobe/magic/creativesuite/CS2_EOL/GLIVE/GL_CS2_UE_NonRet.exeIllustrator CS2
Mac
Serial: 1034-0416-0740-0527-2887-2375
http://download.adobe.com/pub/adobe/magic/creativesuite/CS2_EOL/ILST/AI_CS2_IE_NonRet.dmg.binWin
Serial: 1034-1415-6230-2341-2884-9398
http://download.adobe.com/pub/adobe/magic/creativesuite/CS2_EOL/ILST/AI_CS2_IE_NonRet.exeInCopy CS2
Mac
Serial: 1036-0414-4367-5110-5897-2432
http://download.adobe.com/pub/adobe/magic/creativesuite/CS2_EOL/AICY/IC_CS2_UE_NonRet.dmg.binWin
Serial: 1036-1419-3531-6378-2148-9313
http://download.adobe.com/pub/adobe/magic/creativesuite/CS2_EOL/AICY/IC_CS2_UE_NonRet.exeInDesign CS2
Mac
Serial: 1037-0413-9961-4063-8457-1098
http://download.adobe.com/pub/adobe/magic/creativesuite/CS2_EOL/IDSN/ID_CS2_UE_NonRet.dmgWin
Serial: 1037-1412-5094-8316-6812-7982
http://download.adobe.com/pub/adobe/magic/creativesuite/CS2_EOL/IDSN/ID_CS2_UE_NonRet.exePhotoshop CS2
Mac
Serial: 1045-0410-5403-3188-5429-0639
http://download.adobe.com/pub/adobe/magic/creativesuite/CS2_EOL/PHSP/PhSp_CS2_English.dmg.binWin
Serial: 1045-1412-5685-1654-6343-1431
http://download.adobe.com/pub/adobe/magic/creativesuite/CS2_EOL/PHSP/PhSp_CS2_English.exePhotoshop Elements 4.0/5.0
Mac
Serial: 1057-0410-8218-6295-1699-9560
http://download.adobe.com/pub/adobe/magic/creativesuite/CS2_EOL/PSE/PSE4_Mac_WWE_ESD1.dmg.binWin
Serial: 1057-1414-3729-7573-7352-1206
http://download.adobe.com/pub/adobe/magic/creativesuite/CS2_EOL/PSE/PSE_5.0_WIN_ESD1_ENG.exeAdobe Premiere Pro 2.0
Win
Serial: 1132-1280-4900-7476-5108-8019
http://download.adobe.com/pub/adobe/magic/creativesuite/CS2_EOL/PPRO/PPRO_2.0_Ret-NH_UE.zip
You have a typo in the URL for windows disc 3:
http://download.adobe.com/pub/adobe/magic/creativesuite/CS2_EOL/MLTI/CreativeSuiteCS2Disc3.exe\
The backslash at the end should be removed.
If you didn’t realize it, remove the / for CD3. Someone had a twitchy finger :p
Thanks guys. Did you get your downloads OK?
It really is quite a bargain
Hummm, I’m using Elements 10. I wonder if I should ditch it for CS2?
Still, rather nice of Adobe isn’t it
Here’s another question… Can we even use the programs now that Adobe’s stated that they aren’t even free?
Well seeing as their activation server no longer works, I’d say that technically the programs should work just fine, but if you’re a person of high morals then perhaps you’d better not use them
I’m having some issues with this process. Its asking me to enter the second disk after I have extracted each of the files. What do I do now?
In reply to L. Johnson Photography, I simply hit cancel and it went on with the installation
I have sn iMac- When I get to the end of the installation process it says that it has failed and to contact the seller. Any thoughts?