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Click to expand.Typically, academic licenses don't qualify for upgrades, nor should they. The whole point of academic software licensing is to familiarize students with the software without breaking their banks, promoting future business when their careers can justify the expense involved with commercial software licensing. But anyway, as far as the OP is concerned, Adobe's direct academic pricing has always been fairly reasonable. But also look into your college bookstore. Often, they have agreements with software publishers to offer even better pricing. Click to expand.Well it depends; if you have a student license it's not upgradeable, but if you have an academic license, you can upgrade to the regular version on the next release.

Notably the only difference between the academic license and full license is the price. The student license restricts use to non-commercial and prohibits installing on 2-owned machines whereas the academic license does not have these two restrictions. I contacted Adobe regarding this before I purchased CS5 as I was unsure if I had to pay for a full license or I could upgrade. I was given the green light to purchase an upgrade license. Well it depends; if you have a student license it's not upgradeable, but if you have an academic license, you can upgrade to the regular version on the next release.

Notably the only difference between the academic license and full license is the price. The student license restricts use to non-commercial and prohibits installing on 2-owned machines whereas the academic license does not have these two restrictions.

I contacted Adobe regarding this before I purchased CS5 as I was unsure if I had to pay for a full license or I could upgrade. I was given the green light to purchase an upgrade license. Click to expand.I believe that restriction was removed.

But - check the Adobe site. All of the terms are there. They want to sell you a license, so they make it easy.

As an added note to anyone thinking of a pirated version. Downloading a pirated version of CS is one of the very few ways that it's possible to catch a trojan for OS X. Not every pirated version has a trojan, but there are only 2 or 3 applications, afaik, that have been, um, 'upgraded' with this extra feature - and CS is one of them. Kudos to the OP for wanting to go legit.

Academic pricing gets you Photoshop CS5 Extended (full) for $299, for example. Regular retail costs $699 and Extended retail costs $999.

The Extended non-academic upgrades cost the same price ($299), and you can use those after you lose academic purchasing privileges (after you graduate). Doing this converts your academic version to the full retail version. This does mean however that you are locked into buying the Extended upgrades to continue your licensing path, which cost $100 more than the regular upgrades ($199). (you won't be able to, for example, upgrade from CS5 Extended to CS6 Regular when it comes out - you must buy the CS6 Extended Upgrade).

Free Adobe Cs5 5 Web Premium Teacher Edition For Mac

I've also read that if you buy a package, let's say the master collection, you can't later upgrade just one product, you have to buy the upgrade for the whole collection. I'm still rocking Photoshop 5.5 on Windows (not CS5 mind you, 5.5) and Photoshop CS on Mac. I guess I upgrade so rarely anyway that I wouldn't be eligible for upgrades anyway, so the student version would be fine. What I'd really like to do is get a new copy of Photoshop and have one of my computers be Mac and the other Windows.

I know two computers are allowed on one license, but I wonder if they can be different platforms.