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Cromulent

Cromulent

Cromulent

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I need to get Adobe Creative Cloud for some work I am doing but the cost for it is insane. If you take out a 1 year subscription and pay monthly it is £45.73 and month and if you just pay monthly without an annual subscription it is £68.60.

The thing is my sister works in a museum and has an ac.uk email address so she is normally eligible for the student / teacher edition of some software. Is that all that is required for Adobe CC student edition because I could get her to sign up for it and pay her back and then I'd only need to spend £15.49 per month for an annual subscription.

So does anyone know what methods Adobe use to verify if you are a student because if this works I'll likely do it as it will save me a hell of a lot of cash in the long run.

Thanks for any help :).
 
Hmm just found out that museums are unqualified. What a shame. Guess I'll have to fork out the full amount then. This is going to be painful on my wallet :).
 
Have you had an email offering a 40% reduction on the normally £45.73 subscription? It's only for a year but will lighten the cost to £26.68. The offer lasts until the 10th.
 
?? I just bought the £99 photographers plan for a year which include PS and LR. I've just completed a 3 days course on PS CC - Loved it. Well worth the money imo.
 
Caged;30479457 said:
Surely you are charging enough for the work where the cost of the applications is insignificant?
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I wish. I'm using them to get my YouTube channel off the ground. So far I've made £0.02. Not really much money :).

I need:

Photoshop
Premiere
Media Encoder
After Effects
Audition

and if I got Adobe CC I could probably also find a use for InDesign as well but that would be a side project.
 
arc@css;30479096 said:
Have you had an email offering a 40% reduction on the normally £45.73 subscription? It's only for a year but will lighten the cost to £26.68. The offer lasts until the 10th.
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Nope but if I subscribe for a year do these offers come up often? I wouldn't mind subscribing if I knew there would be offers available at a later date.
 
Cromulent;30480355 said:
Nope but if I subscribe for a year do these offers come up often? I wouldn't mind subscribing if I knew there would be offers available at a later date.
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Well, this is the second time that the offer has come up for me, so that's twice in the last ten months, I think. I seem to recall us chatting about it in the tips 'n tricks thread a while back.

Edit: I really do wish they'd give you PP + After Effects in one package, instead of just PP + media encoder. Or, at least let us choose one extra program to bundle with PP. There's too much of a gap in the package structure, IMO.
 
arc@css;30480410 said:
Well, this is the second time that the offer has come up for me, so that's twice in the last ten months, I think. I seem to recall us chatting about it in the tips 'n tricks thread a while back.

Edit: I really do wish they'd give you PP + After Effects in one package, instead of just PP + media encoder. Or, at least let us choose one extra program to bundle with PP. There's too much of a gap in the package structure, IMO.
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Ah, cool. Thanks for letting me know. I think I'll sign up for a single month at £60 or whatever and if I think it is worth it I'll then upgrade my subscription to a year long one.
 
I went for the yearly in the end, though I can understand the reservations about doing so. I couldn't really turn it down a second time. :D
 
Cromulent;30480350 said:
I wish. I'm using them to get my YouTube channel off the ground. So far I've made £0.02. Not really much money :).

I need:

Photoshop
Premiere
Media Encoder
After Effects
Audition

and if I got Adobe CC I could probably also find a use for InDesign as well but that would be a side project.
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Do you though? Is your YouTube channel all about Adobe apps? Do you really need After Effects for YouTube content? I think it's acceptable that production values improve as a channel grows, and you want to be focusing on content and not polish initially.

See if the Affinity apps would be a decent enough alternative to the image editing part of the brief, and go from there:

https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/photo/

You may even be able to use DaVinci Resolve as an NLE for free:

https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/uk/products/davinciresolve
 
Caged said:
Do you though? Is your YouTube channel all about Adobe apps? Do you really need After Effects for YouTube content? I think it's acceptable that production values improve as a channel grows, and you want to be focusing on content and not polish initially.

See if the Affinity apps would be a decent enough alternative to the image editing part of the brief, and go from there:

https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/photo/

You may even be able to use DaVinci Resolve as an NLE for free:

https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/uk/products/davinciresolve
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Thanks for the reply :). I guess the reason I wanted to get Adobe CC was because I know all the apps will work well together and it will give me some skills that I might be able to use in the future. Learning how to use Photoshop, Premiere and After Effects are useful skills that I could put on my CV.

Affinity does look really good though and the price is right. I've looked into DaVinci Resolve and I don't think the free version supports 1080p 60fps video and there is a chance I'll get into 4k video editing as well. So while I know there are alternatives out there (heck I could just use Blender which is free and pretty much supports everything that I'd like to do) I guess I'd like to stick to the Adobe ecosystem. Plus of course there are good books out there teaching you how to use all the software which I find useful.
 
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