Cheapest way to legal Adobe software?

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I'd really like to get my hands on Lightroom but the price new is a bit daunting especially in light of the significant educational discounts available. What's the cheapest way of accessing these?
My sons not yet of school age, so I was thinking I'd have to enrol in a course to become eligible myself. For £190 you can get the Open Universitys introduction to digital photography course, but that cost doesn't really help with the software.
Does anyone know a cheaper alternative that would still comply with Adobes eligibility criteria?
 
Register at a local Further Education College for a 6 or 10 week course in photography or digital processing then obtain a Student Registration letter or Student Card from them.
If the letter does not have your photograph on it then add your passport photograph to the letter.
Then purchase Abobe CS5 Extended for £185 and /or Lightroom 3 for £65 from Adobe Educational website.......you then have to sent the registration letter into Adobe within 6 weeks......allStudent /Teacher versions are the full commercial versions.
This is what I did and had no problem from Adobe.....College course cost me £67
http://store.adobe.com/store/uk_edu/academic_id.html

Dave
 
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nikonuser said:
Register at a local Further Education College for a 6 or 10 week course in photography or digital processing then obtain a Student Registration letter or Student Card from them.
If the letter does not have your photograph on it then add your passport photograph to the letter.
Then purchase Abobe CS5 Extended for £185 and /or Lightroom 3 for £65 from Adobe Educational website.......you then have to sent the registration letter into Adobe within 6 weeks......allStudent /Teacher versions are the full commercial versions.
This is what I did and had no problem from Adobe.....College course cost me £67
http://store.adobe.com/store/uk_edu/academic_id.html

Dave
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Did something similar, was taking night classes - nothing to do with photogrpahy.

Order photoshop on line, sent them a scan of my pass.

Software delivered well inside a week.
Very good service
 
Sorry to hijack the thread, but the idea of a five year old registering Master Suite and the look on the Registration Team's face (if there is such a thing), has just given me a giggles fit!

Without checking fully, I think that it'd probably fit into their T&Cs as well! :D
 
This doesn't really help the OP, but - I bought LR3 a few weeks ago at the educational price. My son started Primary School in September and will be 5 in February. I forwarded Adobe an email I got from his school stating he was attending. Kids have their uses. ;)
 
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Sponge said:
This doesn't really help the OP, but - I bought LR3 a few weeks ago at the educational price. My son started Primary School in September and will be 5 in February. I forwarded Adobe an email I got from his school stating he was attending. Kids have their uses. ;)
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How's he doing as the U11 Footie team photographer? ;) :D
 
Thanks for all the suggestions, now registered with West Cheshire College for their Digital Photography course and awaiting the registration details.
 
Any problems Matt PM me and I will run through the process I went through.
Best of luck with the course
Dave
 
Thanks for all the help and advice. Now enrolled at the local college for my course next year and successfully received student discount on Lr and Ps. Very easy process if anyone thinking of trying it.
 
I bought lightroom 1 then just upgraded since.

For photoshop I bought a really old copy from ebay for £35 then paid the upgrade price for the latest version (which was CS4 at the time)
 
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