newbie question

[recordme]

Hi guys, I am a novice photographer, and would like to ask for advice from more experienced professionals. Maybe the question is a bit silly, but is there any possibility to use photoshop for free?

[JohnJSmith]

If I were you I would rather avoid using illegal software on your PC. Not only because of the legal issues, but for your sake in the first place. Imagine those guerillas who broke into the program to provide it to you for free. It almost never goes without a Trojan horse inside! So unless you want a huge virus bunch on your computer, use legally free editing programs fortunately there are plenty of them on the internet. And if you don't want to learn them what prevents you from working in official Photoshop cloud for something like $10 per month?! I will never believe you cannot not afford this.