Before anyone throws a morality card at me, I don't own a pirated Photoshop. However, I once did (as most of us once did). Moving along to a discussion I had with a friend: What I want to know is whether or not a pirated installation of Photoshop, on your Mac, can mess up your Mac's registry or root or general performance. Versus a clean installation of a legit Photoshop. Or is the pirated copy merely just a hack of Photoshop's lockdown (which won't affect one's Mac)? My gut feeling is that it can ruin things, but my friend disagrees. What do you think?
One of the very few ways to get infected with malware on OS X, was to download a pirated a version of Photoshop from a dodgy website, or to get it from friend who downloaded it. Since you were needed an admin password to install Photoshop the parasitic trojan also gained privileges. I don't know if this is still an issue, but it was a few years ago. Not every pirated copy was infected of course, but you never really knew in advance. Very few people who can't afford Photoshop actually need the full version anyway, imho.
Either you are in school and have access to the heavily discounted academic versions, or you are a hobbiest who probably would find Elements sufficient, or you are a pro who can write off the cost of the software on your taxes. Not saying that there aren't exceptions, but in the majority of cases I see, people don't use Photoshop to more than 5% of what it does. Heck, I am a professional, and I doubt I am using it beyond 25% of its capability. Click to expand.It would be very easy for me to write 'anything' and then call it 'Photoshop' and place it on the Internet. You would not know you got the wrong thing until after it was to late.
Older versions of Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver and the rest of the Creative Suite will still be available from Adobe — as well as the Pirate Bay — for some time to come.
That said, why bother Adobe provide free 1 month tials of it's software and you KNOW those are clean. Then if you need to pirate it you start with that. So a pirsted copy CAN be 100% known good because it was direct from Adobe. Then there are many shades of grey between. But thisis Mac OS X. No software can mess with your system unless you give it permission and click 'OK'.
NEVER run day to day stuff on you Mac while logged into an account with admin privilege. NEVER do that. Make an account called 'Admin' and another with your name for normal use.
All software that is run on unix-like OS (such as Mac OS X) will run the software using the privilege of the account. So you want to run in an un-privileged account. The latest photoshop (or Adobe Master Collection) hack is done with a trial. So Photoshop is acquired by getting it from Adobe self. If you don't want to create an account it's possible to get a trial version from somewhere else as well. So you don't have any malware or viruses once it's installed.
(it's the trial version) You only swap a file in the program to bypass activation. The only way a virus or malware could be installed is when the trial is from a bad source, or swapping the file causes harm in any way.
But that would be quite genius from the hacker, to make the part in photoshop that checks whether it's activated into something that brakes down or takes over your mac. I'm sorry but I AM going to lecture on the morality of pirating PS (and this isn't a dig at the OP, just a general comment). Please don't do it. Various sources do contain trojans and although there are ways of obtaining safe versions and then hacking them, it's immoral, especially if you use that product to make money.
Adobe do 'Creative Cloud' which allows you to legally use any of the CS applications for a monthly fee. This has the advantage of upgrades to the latest version when it is released. Click to expand.I think the question was only theoretical.
Could it cause a problem? But if you actulaay want a free copy, there is a legal way. Buy a Wacom graphic tablet for $99 and inside is a bundled copy of Adobe Photoshop Elements.
'Elements has everything you'd need and yu'd need to know quite a bit to know it from the full PS release. This did not used to be the case but over the years Adobe has been adding fetures to 'Elements'. You need the tablet so buy it for $99 and PS is free inside the box.
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Adobe Photoshop CS5 is the latest version available right now. We're pretty sure it's expensive, but since everyone just downloads pirated copies of it, no one is really sure. Just The Facts. Every image you see online has been photoshopped at least a little, except from the images on Cracked.com, which have been photoshopped a lot. Except for the images in the 'Images You Can't Believe Aren't Photoshopped' articles. Photoshop has a tool to make boobs bigger.
Approximately 19 people have actually paid for Photoshop. Photoshop is celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2010. Actually, the full version only costs $199 if you are a student. Cracked on Adobe Photoshop CS5 Photoshop is an image manipulation tool. Just about every single image you see in print or online has been photoshopped at least a little. Most of the time you can't even tell.
Photoshop CS 5 (Creative Suite 5), is the latest version of Photoshop. It has even more tools to trick people into thinking that your fakes are real. Photo Fakes You know that in the movies, actors use CGI to make their junk big and their boobs post-partum sized (see article: ). Well, that takes a lot of video editing. In print, thanks to Photoshop, it's WAY easier, and therefore, happens ALL THE TIME. If you look closely, you'll see that Keira Knightly actually does not have a tribal facial tattoo.
Most people can't tell fake photos from the real ones. Check out Cracked article for some examples of the tomfoolery that Photoshop has wrought on us. In by their own photographer, who added more smoke (using the clone tool, infra) and made the smoke blacker using the Time Magazine Tool: The FBI and Photoshop: The FBI released this photo (the center photo) of what Bin Laden might look like with gray hair, now that America has blown up everything around him: The first photo is what bin Laden looked like a long time ago. The middle photo is what the FBI thinks he might look like now.
The photo on the right is taken from Spanish politician, Gaspar Llamazares's, campaign photo, and it was used to Photoshop-age Osama bin Laden because under J. Edgar Hoover Directive Number 3, all colored people are the same. How To Use Photoshop - The Basics Layers: Working with layers is one of the most basic tools in Photoshop. Layers allow you to cut and paste other images into your working image and put them in the foreground or background. It also allows you to manipulate different parts of your image separately. We Photoshopped in red underwear on Scarlett Johansson.
Clone tool: The clone tool is great if you are only 17 and can't get steroids, but still want yourself to look as buff as a gay model on your movie poster. The clone tool lets you borrow patches from one section of an image and use it in another section. Liquefy: Ahh liquefy filter.the many uses you have. There are several modes of the liquefy filter. One use, the bloat tool, will expand round things. This has many, many uses, like. If you took a picture of a ball, but want it to be bigger and rounder.
There's also the warp tool, which lets you push and pull on images to smudge them in one direction. This is primarily used for giving things boners or making girls skinnier. Kicking It Up A Notch There are literally hundreds of tools and thousands of settings in Photoshop. Once you master the basics, you can work on really tweaking photos to make surreal compositions. Here some examples of what you can do (click on the photos for links to the respective pages): 40 Mindblowing Photo Manipulations: Advanced Photoshop: Fantasy and Surreal Photo Manipulations: Photoshop Tools and Tips So you've mastered the basics and now you are ready to create some fake nudes of your own or you want to make yourself into a centaur or something. You're going to need some tools - stock images, brushes, texture files, etc.
Here's where you get them for free: - great resource for stock photos and brushes. various tutorials and tools for creating neat looking photos. more brushes and tutorials and resources. Advanced Photoshop/Photoshop Creative site has a lot of user galleries that you can use for inspiration. The print magazines (about $15 an issue) are amazing and come with a CD with resource files and tutorials and stock images. The fan page for Photoshop has occasional news and tutorials and photo samples to look at. Looking for more?
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YouTube has almost as many Photoshop tutorials as it does funny cat videos. Also, there are tons of other sites out there with tutorials and resources. Google is your friend with this regard. Cracked Weekly Photoshop Contests In case you hadn't noticed, we run a weekly Photoshop contest. The results are published every Wednesday on the front page of Cracked.com.
At the end of each results page is a link to participate in the current contest. You can view the whole archive of Photoshop contests. Or, you can just go to the Cracked forum and enter.
The current Photoshop contest is stickied at the top of the page. Here's an image from the Office Supplies too Awesome to Exist contest: Don't have any skill or imagination or senses of humor, but you do have an image manipulation tool? You're not alone. Cracked columnist Daniel O'Brien pulled out the eight worst entries into the contests ever and commented on them here in his article:. While you're reading the rest of this, download the full version of Photoshop CS5 Extended (30 day trial). What's New in CS5? Maybe not quite.
But, CS5 does have some sweet new features. One of the most anticipated features is the content aware fill, which allows you to delete a portion of a picture and, instead of leaving white space, it fills in the background. How does it do that? Demons and black magic. Check it out: Puppet warp is another rad feature. It allows you to set anchor points in a picture and then bend it without cutting and pasting and patching the image. Check out this quick video: that explains all of the new features with the help of video tutorials.
And, of course, don't forget the, for an explanation by people who actually have the software.