In a message dated 11/19/2009 5:58:34 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, [email protected] writes: Whenever you buy an academic version of Adobe software it shows "Academic" on the splash screen as it loads. I'll take Marnie's word that the software itself is bo different other than in the packaging. I'll guess that the registration key contains data that identifies the software as either commercial or academic.
Lightroom, as a combined raw conversion and databses/archiving tool, is indespensible to me now. Photoshop is the closest thing to a true monopoly in the sowfware world. ================ I bought most of my original photo editing software on student discounts. Then upgraded. You'd get a lot of ticked off students otherwise. They sell software to students at a discount, MS and others too, figuring "hook them young and they will be a customer for life." Which tends to work. If those students couldn't upgrade when they graduate, well, I think you would have heard the loud yell all over the Net by now. :-) They just don't count on older students like me (and others) who are students just for that discount. Academic software discounts are a secret only to those who haven't been students. Marnie ;-) --------------------------------------------- We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. Albert Einstein -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
