A Question To Mac,Photoshop, And Comcast Users

I am a Mac user and an artist. Also, I have Comcast internet. I am planning to buy Photoshop CS4 maybe this year. Before I buy it, I would like to download the trial version to see how well it can run on my Mac G5. My worry is that the file is pretty huge (1.0GB). If I download the trial Photoshop CS4, will it have an affect on Comcast bandwidth? You all know the story about Comcast capping bandwidth and such.

I also meet those 3 criteria.
And I agree with Marian, just above. You should have no grief from Comcast about grabbing the trial...or even several trials of different apps.
I'm not a HUGE user of Comcast D/L bandwidth, but certainly there are some months where I've grabbed upwards of 10 GB's worth of live audio material from Archive.org and similar places, and I haven't heard a peep from them.
But I don't do any P2P sharing via BitTorrent, so my usage is simply to grab and quit.
Go get the CS4 demo(s) and have fun!

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3) Illustrator is a drawing tool. The tools in Illustrator are designed for object-oriented vector drawing. In many respects they are better than Photoshop's tools for those type of projects. And No, you can not edit photographs easily with Illustrator. While you can include photos or raster items within an Illustrator file, Illustrator is not inherently designed to edit iamges at a pixel level.
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5) If you have Photoshop or Illustrator you have Bridge. You can view files in Bridge. I wouldn't know of any other Windows software. It may exist, I simply wouldn't know.

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