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Just looking at getting the following software for work


Photoshop CS5 x 2
Lightroom 3 x 2
Photshop Elements 10 x 1

Amazon UK - £1,374 (boxed)
Adobe UK - £1779 (download)
Adobe US $2096 (£1322) (download)

Anyone know anywhere cheaper to get Adobe software?
 
Two routes:

Route One is as a student ....... Take up an evening class (eg photoshop skills, website development or crochet patterns). A ten week course will cost around £100 and can be great for making new friends and skill building. If you do this through an official college you will get your official student card. Then as an official student you qualify in getting these programs at a great discount through www.software4students.co.uk

Route two is illegal and i wont advise you to do that
 
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Route 1 is also illegal if you want to sell your work. I was informed of this by an instructor.

But thanks for the suggestion :-)
 
You can use student versions for commercial purposes in North America but not the rest of the world! As if that makes sense?!

How can it cost more for a download than a boxed version?!

There have been some good deals on recently (at various places like Amazon and Currys) with LR3 down to about £100 and Elements down to about £40, I've never looked at CS5 prices though.
 
just out of curiosity, is it illegal to use a trial version more than once?
 
joescrivens said:
just out of curiosity, is it illegal to use a trial version more than once?
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not sure about illegal, youd have to read the EULA though.

plus youd have to clean your registry out after the first install as most will leave something behind to say the trial was expired to stop you reinstalling over and over.
 
yeah thats what I was going to say, there are apps that remove things like that, on mac app zapper is one of them, drag and drop removal. But i would imagine the EULA would state you can't go over the 30 day license
 
Remember the days when you could just set your windows time back for unlimited trial time? haha Happy days!
 
joescrivens said:
just out of curiosity, is it illegal to use a trial version more than once?
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It's not a crime, so the flying squad won't be round your house to arrest you. It's almost certainly a breach of the contract you clicked "agree" to, so you could potentially be sued for that. In practice, you won't be.
 
Might seem a daft question - and nobody has mentioned it yet - but the quantities you require - is that the number of PC's you'll be running it on? You do know that each copy can be used on more than one machine? Just in case you didn't consider the obvious?
 
cymruchris said:
Might seem a daft question - and nobody has mentioned it yet - but the quantities you require - is that the number of PC's you'll be running it on? You do know that each copy can be used on more than one machine? Just in case you didn't consider the obvious?
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That's not strictly true, you can run some adobe products on a desktop and laptop but not for use simultaneously, I.e. by two separate users. If I remember rightly.
 
I guess it will depend on the business view of how they want to license their machines I suppose :)

I normally have it running on 2 pc's at a time... And there's only one of me..
 
cymruchris said:
I guess it will depend on the business view of how they want to license their machines I suppose :)

I normally have it running on 2 pc's at a time... And there's only one of me..
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That is almost certainly a breach of the licence terms.

If the boot was on the other foot (assuming you make your living from photography), how would you feel about a customer taking a 6x4 print they had bought from you, scanning it and reprinting it as a canvas? After all, they can only look at one of them at once, so why pay you twice?
 
onomatopoeia said:
That is almost certainly a breach of the licence terms.

If the boot was on the other foot (assuming you make your living from photography), how would you feel about a customer taking a 6x4 print they had bought from you, scanning it and reprinting it as a canvas? After all, they can only look at one of them at once, so why pay you twice?
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It's fine as long as they are not used at the same time and it is only the licensed person who uses them. Here is the definition from Adobe (this is Photoshop but most are the same).

2.5 Portable or Home Computer Use. Subject to the important restrictions set forth in Section 2.6, the
primary user of the Computer on which the Software is installed under Section 2.2 (“Primary User”) may
install a second copy of the Software for his or her exclusive use on either a portable Computer or a
Computer located at his or her home, provided that the Software on the portable or home Computer is not
used at the same time as the Software on the primary Computer.

If you want to see more the whole license is at http://www.adobe.com/products/eulas/pdfs/gen_wwcombined_20091001_1604.pdf
 
Most software licences these days allow use on 2 computers, so long as both computers are used by the same primary user. This is difficult to police, of course, and they don't say what happens when your wife jumps on to your laptop at home while you're at work using the desktop.

The exception is "OEM" software which is supplied at the same time as a new computer (or mis-sold by some suppliers). That is cheaper than retail software, but limited only to the one new computer it was supplied for.

You can not transfer OEM software when you buy another new computer, even if you scrap the original. OEM software is essentially tied to one computer. This is impossible to police though.
 
PhotoMonty said:
Most software licences these days allow use on 2 computers, so long as both computers are used by the same primary user. This is difficult to police, of course, and they don't say what happens when your wife jumps on to your laptop at home while you're at work using the desktop.
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All that happens if a 2nd person starts using it is that they are not licensed, so in the same boat legally as someone who uses a pirate license.
 
TopBanana said:
You can use student versions for commercial purposes in North America but not the rest of the world! As if that makes sense?!
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Nope. Until recently Adobe's Educational FAQ explained that all the Student/Teacher editions could be used for commercial purposes. Here's what their FAQ looked like back in 2010 - note the section that says...

Can a student or teacher use the Adobe Student and Teacher Edition software for commercial use?

Yes. Those who purchase this product can use it for personal as well as commercial use.
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For some reason Adobe have removed this page, presumably because it actually gave useful information and didn't have lots of useless graphics.
 
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