The truth is that the trials are still on their servers, but they are not publicly available for download. & here’s how to grab them via direct links… :P
- Signup for an Adobe account (with your Adobe account, you get access to Buzzword, Photoshop Express Premier Express, etc.)
- Go to Adobe Downloads & select to try Photoshop Lightroom 2.
- It’ll ask you to login with your Adobe account & then it’ll take you to the download page.
- But we don’t want Lightroom 2, do we? So just paste the links below in the address bar and hit return to start the download.
If you try each of these links directly it won’t work since you need to authenticate yourself on the Adobe server for the download to start. That’s why we need to go through the above steps. :)
Adobe CS4 Master Collection – 5.43GB
http://trials.adobe.com/Applications/MastCol/CS4/Win/ADBESTAMCS4_LS1.7z
Note: The 7z is the archive and the exe is the extractor.
Adobe CS4 Design Premium – 3.78GB
http://trials.adobe.com/Applications/DesignPre/CS4/Win/ADBESTDSCS4_LS1.7z
Adobe CS4 Web Premium – 4.14GB
http://trials.adobe.com/Applications/WebPre/CS4/Win/ADBESTWDCS4_LS1.7z
Adobe CS4 Production Premium – 4.43GB
http://trials.adobe.com/Applications/ProdPrem/CS4/Win/ADBESTVDCS4_LS7.7z
Adobe CS4 Photoshop Extended – 814MB
http://trials.adobe.com/Applications/Photoshop/CS4/Win/ADBEPHSPCS4_LS1.7z
Adobe Acrobat Extended 9 – 843MB
http://trials.adobe.com/Applications/Acrobat/APEX/9/APEX9_Win_WEB_WWEFG.7z
http://trials.adobe.com/Applications/Acrobat/APEX/9/APEX9_Win_WEB_WWEFG.exe
Photoshop Extra Content – 6.42MB
http://trials.adobe.com/Applications/Photoshop/CS4/Win/PHSPCS4_Cont_LS1.exe
After Effects Extra Content – 736MB
http://trials.adobe.com/Applications/AfterEffects/CS4/Win/ADBEAFETCS4_Cont_LS7.exe
http://trials.adobe.com/Applications/AfterEffects/CS4/Win/ADBEAFETCS4_Cont_LS7.7z
Premiere Pro Extra Content – 2.71GB
http://trials.adobe.com/Applications/PremierePro/CS4/Win/ADBEPPROCS4_Cont_LS7.exe
http://trials.adobe.com/Applications/PremierePro/CS4/Win/ADBEPPROCS4_Cont_LS7.7z
Flash Pro Extra Content – 1.46MB
http://trials.adobe.com/Applications/FlashPro/CS4/Win/ADBEFLPRCS4Win_Cont_LS1.exe
Why download?
Don’t forget that Adobe downloads are cached by Akamai, so you’ll be getting full 2Mbps – 250KB/s speed on your my.T! What reason can be more compelling that this? Perhaps you’d want to “try” these apps that are worth Rs 100k.
I’d recommend using a download manager to max out your 2Mbps & the links can be resumed. If it doesn’t, then do the same above steps, initiate the download & then resume your paused download. Downloading the Master Collection trial took me just 6h 40min for 5.43GB.
Adobe takes these links down from time to time, so don’t be upset if the links stop working.
Happy downloading! :)
Edit: More direct links here.