Photoshop Extended CS4

[BatchFile]

Our Art dept. has some money they need to spend before the end of the financial year and they've asked me to help them:D

 

Probably going to suggest a mix of hardware and software as they need updates to both so as part of the planning process I legitimately need the trial version of Photoshop Extended CS4 to see how it runs on some of our existing machines.

 

Trouble is, in typical Adobe fashion (I've never been a fan since their fonts screwed up my Windows 3.11 installation:mad:), they've overcomplicated the download process; you can't just download the file, that would be too easy, no, you have to use the "Akamai download manager". Which doesn't seem to work through the LEA proxy:mad: (or with Opera, saying "this program only works in Windows" (even in pretend to be IE mode)) it just sits there at 0%, then pauses after a while:mad: I'm sitting at the end of a whacking great broadband connection - what do I need a download manager for?

 

So... any suggestions? either of the "I've got it on a Celeron 1.8 with a gig of ram and it's fine" type, or suggestions of where to download it from without the silly download manager.

 

Cheers

Edited January 22, 2010 by BatchFile

[Devontechie]

Think I have got a download of the trial software somewhere. If so, I will PM you a link to it.

 

Steve

[Tricky_Dicky]

I've got it running on a 4 year old laptop and it's fine. Not quick mind, but it works.

If it were me, I'd factor in some training from a proper company as it is a very complicated piece of software to get the best out of.

Rich

[jcollings]

The download manager works fine here so I don't think CLEO have it blocked in any way.

 

We've tried to steer people away from Photoshop (in most cases it's totally under-used - even in our Art department) and towards some of the free products. GimpShop being one.

[BatchFile]

just managed to get the download manager window to open (but still no data came through) in Opera so I could get at the full URL it's pointing to...

 

I've found direct links to the 2 files it was trying to download (in case anyone else has this trouble in the future) but I better not post them here - PM me if you need them:)

 

saved them to a folder and ran the .exe..... and it works

 

@JCollings:

Couldn't get any data through the download manager even going strainght out to Lancaster - but it doesn't matter I've got it now thanks

 

I'm just putting together a few suggestions of which Photoshop is one - we've got a concurrent licenses for Photoshop 6 (old) and Elements 2, which are used at the mo.

 

New versions of Elements and Paint Shop Pro are also in the frame, and I'll get that GimpShop, too.