Lightroom 3 - Student Edition

Morning all,

Just wondering if anyone here can tell me about what restrictions there are with regards Lightroom Student Edition.

My other half is a full-time student, and uses images for her course when preparing learning material, so I was wondering whether we'd be able to purchase the Student Edition.

She's in her final year of study and I was wondering what the licensing restrictions are.

Robbie,

Is this the same is the 'Academic' version? If so, our daughter has it (she's a full-time student), and it appears that there is no difference in functionality.

That's the one.

How do Adobe deal with licensing, is it like Microsoft where they just take it on good faith, or do you have to provide documentation before it can be activated?

Sounds good so far.



Managed to find some details in the depths of the Adobe website, it would appear that all we have to do is submit a picture of the missus's student ID card and they will send the serial key, so even more straightforward than when you got Dreamweaver Gareth.

Not quite as straightforward as the Microsoft way, but still pretty good.

I looked into this recently, as can get it with the OU T189 course - the only restriction / difference with the "full" version is that you can only install on ONE computer instead of TWO (not simultanous use though) - which is a bit annoying if you have a laptop and main computer, but for the cost saving... oh, you can only buy each Adobe product once per academic year so can't just buy two copies of Lightroom.

For the OU, apparently all you have to do is scan the course acceptance letter (or something like that, forget exactly which paperwork) and email it to them, then then send serial number.

Anyway, its only £45 in Tesco vouchers for the OU course, so I will find out soon!

I have just purchased the student version for £75. For those who don't know, you can qualify if you purchase for a son/daughter at the same address who is in full-time secondary or PRIMARY education. You just need to send the retailer proof. This is who I bought it off: http://www.studentexpressware.co.uk/index.php?app=gbu0&ns=catshow&ref=single_app...

(Nice people as well - I phoned them up to make sure I qualified.) In my case my 8 year old has a Pentax *ist DS and is looking forward to getting his hands on Lightroom instead of Picassa, but I don't think they send anyone round to see who's using it...

Tony