The best way to get Photoshop legitimately, in my opinion, is buy a secondhand, older version, perhaps 6 or 7, from somewhere like eBay. Make sure it's the full version - not an upgrade - and make sure it's NOT elements. Then buy the upgrade, which you can also get quite cheap on eBay.
I paid about £40 for a secondhand copy of Photoshop 6 from an eBay seller, and about £190 for the CS2 upgrade from a software website.
That's a hell of a saving, compared to buying the full software, and it's totally legitimate.
Incidentally, although I don't know how true this is and I did hear a while ago, that CS3 is not as stable as CS2, and a lot of people were not pleased with the performance of the upgrade - Adobe might have patched it by now, but you might want to look into it first.
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