I was told at the time that it was totally & legitimately free and I'm sticking with that story (ha ha).

Again I lose track but I think I downloaded it some 5 years ago, possibly more, I know it's been a right good while. GIMP 2.10 will be a production release with these features.ĭuly noted. GIMP is far superior to Photoshop CS2 in my opinion. Sometimes I do ALL of my processing in the RAW software.

Heck Photoshop Elements would probably be enough except when I convert RAW files I save the 'exports' as 16-bit TIFF format & Elements doesn't work with those. All I do in Photoshop is some (but typically not all) of the following: cloning or the 'healing brush' for trash in the photo (or moles on a face etc), brightness-contrast, levels, a Velvia 'actions' for landscapes, and maybe unsharp mask (once in a blue moon I may work with layers just a tad). Has Adobe made any other versions free since then? If not, oh well, I've basically done OK with Photoshop CS2 because most of the 'heavy lifting' I do is RAW processing-either in Lightroom (I have 5.7 currently) or Nikon's free Capture NX-D software (ever since I replaced my submerged Sony A6000 with a Nikon D3300 last month). I put free in quotes because there is controversy over whether people should be using it without a license. Sometimes I do ALL of my processing in the RAW software

For the past 5 years or so (I lose count, it's been awhile) I've been using the legitimately free version of Photoshop CS2 ever since a poster told me a kazillion years ago, during a time I was using an even older version than that (CS original maybe?), that CS2 was legitimately free from Adobe's site anyway.

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