GIMP is free... and the Help is much less cryptic than the words from ADOBELAND. YMMV.
http://www.gimp.org/ On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 10:41 AM, Mixon Bill <bmixon...@austin.rr.com> wrote: > David McKenzie has discovered that Adobe is giving away their entire CS2 > Creative Suite for free. > > http://www.adobe.com/**downloads/cs2_downloads/<http://www.adobe.com/downloads/cs2_downloads/> > > Might be a good opportunity to try Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, etc. > without spending any money. Note the warnings at the top of the web page, > though. For example, that version won't run on Macs with Intel processors > unless they're also running an old enough version of OS-X to have the > run-time interpreter for G4 code. No idea what problems might crop up with > Windows versions less than seven years old (i.e., more recent than the > middle Paleozoic). The current Adobe version of all that stuff is CS6. > > The rent-it-by-the-month deal for CS6 and beyond is not that bad, compared > to what it would have cost to buy it. You download the programs and run > them locally, as always, and store your files on your own disk. (They also > provide a cloud and various collaboration tools for those into that sort of > thing.) The programs just have to use the Internet once a month to verify > that you're still paying. The serious problem is that if you stop paying, > the programs stop working (assuming you haven't used some illegal hack that > will no doubt appear), and any files you have stored in their proprietary > formats will be unusable. You could still take them to somebody else who > still has a subscription. Any files saved locally in common formats such as > PDF, JPEG, HTML, or TIFF will of course still be good.--Mixon > ------------------------------**---------- > Always forgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them more. > ------------------------------**---------- > You may "reply" to the address this message > came from, but for long-term use, save: > Personal: bmi...@alumni.uchicago.edu > AMCS: a...@amcs-pubs.org or sa...@amcs-pubs.org > > > ------------------------------**------------------------------**--------- > Visit our website: http://texascavers.com > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > texascavers-unsubscribe@**texascavers.com<texascavers-unsubscr...@texascavers.com> > For additional commands, e-mail: > texascavers-help@texascavers.**com<texascavers-h...@texascavers.com> > >
