My daughter-in-law is a grade school teacher. A photocopy of her school ID let me get a great discount on Lightroom 2.4, Regards, Bob S.
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 8:09 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > -- 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.
