Lightroom2 Education Edition

I am a student wanting to purchase Lightroom 2 education edition because it is $200 cheaper that way. Does anyone know if the student edition lacks any functions or if it is just a educational price?

I believe it's fully functional. It's a great value!

It's fully functional. Be warned that you WILL NOT be able to upgrade down the road and will have to pay full price at some point. Only then will be able to buy the upgrade versions.

You can get an academic discount if you qualify but there's no student version of Lightroom....the software is the same....its just less costly if you're a student.

For Photoshop but not Lightroom.

Razeus wrote in post #8701063
It's fully functional. Be warned that you WILL NOT be able to upgrade down the road and will have to pay full price at some point. Only then will be able to buy the upgrade versions.

PixelMagic wrote in post #8701098
For Photoshop but not Lightroom.

Wrong

Razeus wrote in post #8701063
It's fully functional. Be warned that you WILL NOT be able to upgrade down the road and will have to pay full price at some point. Only then will be able to buy the upgrade versions.

Wrong


The key term is academic pricing, not academic program. You can upgrade the programs you get from academic stores to the next version of the full program. No problems at all. The only thing that is different is that they don't offer academic price upgrades

Perhaps you should let Adobe know that they are "wrong" about their own software: http://www.adobe.com …/students/stude​ntedition/

The OP asked about an "educational edition" of Lightroom...no such product exists but there is a student version of Photoshop which differs from academic pricing for Photoshop.

basroil wrote in post #8701140
Wrong

Wrong


The key term is academic pricing, not academic program. You can upgrade the programs you get from academic stores to the next version of the full program. No problems at all. The only thing that is different is that they don't offer academic price upgrades

Pixelmagic, I'm not sure I understand. Your link clearly states that the "student edition" is in name only:

Adobe Student Editions – for college students who meet eligibility – are full versions of the latest industry-standard software from Adobe, including Adobe® Creative Suite® 4 Design Premium, Creative Suite 4 Design Standard, Creative Suite 4 Production Premium, Creative Suite 4 Web Premium, and Photoshop® CS4 Extended, priced at a huge discount for higher education students.

There are standard retail, academic and (college) student editions. The naming creates some confusion but it's all the same software, just different pricing as basroil indicated. I bought the academic priced CS4E, if I had a university student connection I would have bought the whole suite, but it's all the same software.

Your confusing two different things. There's no student/educational version of Lightroom as the OP enquired about....there's only student/academic pricing.

However, there is both a student version of Photoshop AND educational pricing of Photoshop. While the functionality is all the same, the difference is in the ability to upgrade. You can upgrade Photoshop purchased through educational pricing but you cannot upgrade the student version.

Thanks for the input and clarification... I used the wrong terminology... student/academic pricing is what I am inquiring about.

Since the above link is about CS4, I think this one applies as well: http://studenteditions​.adobe.com/#/learnMore​/mythBusters

https://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthre​ad.php?t=736691

PM, I'm not confusing anything. I think you're the one that's confused as shown by Rene's first link.

That link says exactly what basroil and I both said. The "student edition" is just a marketing name. There is one Photoshop, no matter what you paid for it it's the same exact software. There are no restrictions on commercial use in NA, there are no restrictions on upgrading, there are no restrictions.

If you have no k-12 connections buy the best retail deal you can find. If you have a k-12 connection find the best academic software price, if you have a university/college connection buy the "student edition". But whatever one you buy you're getting the same program, there is no difference and there are no restrictions other than those that qualify you for the special price.