Adobe Creative Suite Premium 1.1 - would you buy it

[Lefta Dissenter]

if you could get it for $200.00?

It gets some mixed reviews on Amazon, but 13 reviews is not exactly a large sampling.

Creative Suite Premium 1.1 includes: Photoshop CS (image editing), Illustrator CS (drawing and illustration), Indesign CS (page layout), Golive CS (web design), Acrobat Professional (includes forms creation and enhanced tools to enable advanced control/exchange and output of graphically complex documents), Version Cue.

I've been wanting Acrobat for a while now, so that's why I got started down this road.

Thanks for any and all advice! :hi:

[brooklynite]

1. Check the fine print...

That price level may be for the "educational" version, and some sellers require you to show ID (student/faculty/staff) bvefore finishing the transaction.

[Lefta Dissenter]

5. good catch!

my daughter is buying it through her college. It just so happens that she and I share a computer.

But as far as I can tell, it's the full version of everything, and even if you quit school, the license is yours to keep.

[ET Awful]

7. Yup, my mom buys software on educational licenses frequently

she's a financial aid officer at an accredited school, so is eligible for the discounts.

[asthmaticeog]

8. Those are full versions.

I bought a ton of pricey software on the cheap right before I graduated from college, and yes, they're full versions, and yes, you get to keep the license forever, and you even get the tech support and lower-cost upgrades like any other user.

[asthmaticeog]

2. $200 for all that is a STEAL.

I'm tempted to ask what the catch is - most of those programs individually sell for much more than $200.

[aden_nak]

3. Buy it? Isn't it SOFTWARE?

Though don't get me wrong, I hammer Photoshop and Golive regularly. Especially Photoshop. And while I kidn of miss Pagemaker, I guess Indesign is here to stay. But if you've got that package for $200, it seems highly unlikely that that's a normal price.

That being said, Photoshop is THE image editing tool. Everything else (with the possible exception of the Linux-only GIMP) is complete and utter crap. It's the difference between using a nail file and a Dremmel.

[ET Awful]

6. I wouldn't go that far,

For the budget conscious, Paintshop Pro is an excellent package.

Corel used to give Adobe a run for their money, but that was a decade ago :)

[aden_nak]

9. Corel used to be good stuff.

Way back in the day, before Photoshop 3.0.5. After that, though, it wasn't even close. As for Paint Shop Pro, if all you want to do is take out the "red eye" on your photos and resize them, it'll get you by. But if you want to do anything more serious, PSP simply lacks the tools or the output quality (especially when performing transformations) that Photoshop provides. PSP will get-it-done for making web banners, but that's where I'd draw the line at its usage.

[ET Awful]

4. That package sells at full retail for over $1,000

I'd double check the legality of the license and everything.

BUT, if it's legit, I'd do it, the software is excellent (I use it daily).

[slestak]

10. It's great stuff...

but if it's an acedemic version, you may not be able to upgrade it in the future. You'd be stuck buying full versions.

It's all great software (except the GoLive, which I haven't used much. I'm a Dreamweaver guy).