-- Posted by Anonymous at 2:55 pm on Jan. 7, 2009 i cannot pay for adobe photoshop and wont be able to for a long time. all i want is a free version that is the actual photoshop and  not a 30day trial one. help? -- Posted by bighead1991 at 2:54 pm on Jan. 13, 2009 You can not get Adobe Photoshop for free by legal means. A good alternative to this, is "The Gimp": http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/stable.html