Photoshop costs between $ 600 and $ 1200, depending upon the version you purchase. You can download a free trial from adobe.com to see if you like it before you buy it.
pleonastic_piranha December 15, 2013
CS4, you mean. legally you can’t download it anywhere, and asking for illegal sites here isn’t a good idea. adobe doesn’t offer a reduced price version, more’s the pity.
you could buy OEM versions on ebay or amazon marketplace, but they won’t be dirt cheap either — the program costs $ 700 new. but the problem is that adobe does not recognize those venues as legitimate resellers, and you don’t know whether the copy you buy is a legit copy instead of a counterfeit one. the activation code you get with it might not work, and then you have no recourse.
if you are a student, adobe offers very deep discounts; you can currently get photoshop CS6 for $ 250. you could also give the new “creative cloud” service a try — $ 50 a month for access to all of adobe’s software.
but if all this is too hefty a price tag (and it is for many people), does it have to be photoshop? what do you need it for? there is free software out there that can do most of what photoshop can do, and more in some cases (the gimp, for example). i strongly recommend moving to open-source software instead of commercial whenever possible, because you’re no longer held hostage to high prices and restrictive licensing.
Photoshop costs between $ 600 and $ 1200, depending upon the version you purchase. You can download a free trial from adobe.com to see if you like it before you buy it.
CS4, you mean. legally you can’t download it anywhere, and asking for illegal sites here isn’t a good idea. adobe doesn’t offer a reduced price version, more’s the pity.
you could buy OEM versions on ebay or amazon marketplace, but they won’t be dirt cheap either — the program costs $ 700 new. but the problem is that adobe does not recognize those venues as legitimate resellers, and you don’t know whether the copy you buy is a legit copy instead of a counterfeit one. the activation code you get with it might not work, and then you have no recourse.
if you are a student, adobe offers very deep discounts; you can currently get photoshop CS6 for $ 250. you could also give the new “creative cloud” service a try — $ 50 a month for access to all of adobe’s software.
but if all this is too hefty a price tag (and it is for many people), does it have to be photoshop? what do you need it for? there is free software out there that can do most of what photoshop can do, and more in some cases (the gimp, for example). i strongly recommend moving to open-source software instead of commercial whenever possible, because you’re no longer held hostage to high prices and restrictive licensing.