I have an inactive adobe cc account. It does not have an active subscription and only has the free cc subscription. I am able to login to my cc account through the photoshop software and the gray startup screen was back to normal. I was thinking I could still use the free CC library space they provide. But If I login to my free cc account in photoshop, would they learn that I'm using a pirated version of photoshop and deactivate my free cc account?
It seems like If I logout of my free cc account in photoshop, I cant seem to create new documents.
Never mind, I just deleted any and all references to adobe in the program files folders, AppData directory, and registry. I then reinstalled photoshop and was able to create a new files even though I wasn't logged in to the free CC account. And I've decided not to use my free cc library and cloud space. Cheers!