I haven't done any searching for info about this yet so forgive me if it's been mentioned before.

I bought CS2 Premium (Educational Version) and now I want to upgrade Photoshop CS3 or CS4 (when available) however a friend of mine just told me that Adobe will not let you upgrade individual programs from the suite. So I have to upgrade the entire Creative Suite ($600) when all I want is Photoshop CS3 ($200)! Is this true?

uh you can do an upgrade to CS3 Design Standard Suite for 399... i dont know where you heard 600. Makes sense that you can't upgrade just one program, you bought the whole suite. Good news is your educational version will now be a fully licensed version. PM me if you have any questions, but that should about cover it.

Unfortunately, it's true... if you bought the suite, you're stuck with upgrading the suite.

This has been a gripe since the beginning over on the NAPP forums since CS debuted.

-Leon

i HONESTLY don't see the issue. you bought the suite, you should use the suite programs. or you will at some point. what's the problem with having them all upgraded? i honestly can't stand hearing people gripe about this stuff. it's a minute amount of money to pay for a program that probably makes you thousands, tens of thousands of dollars a year.

I'm not arguing with the usability and worth of all the programs that are part of the suite. The fact is I use photoshop/illustrator far and above any of the other programs. Actually there are a few I'll likely never use. When I originally purchased the suite it was with the Educational Discount so it was an unbeatable price. It didn't really matter if it came with some programs I wouldn't use. So I'd rather not be forced to buy them all at once when I don't need them.

Word!

Ironically the one program I don't use is illustrator. Cs3 design standard consists of photoshop, bridge, indesign, acrobat pro and illustrator... I regularly use everything but Ai, so no complaints here. I'd have to suggest sucking it up andpurchasing design standard... Its well worth the small upgrade price, especially considering that youre using it for business...

I honestly am astounded that people don't know this. Macromedia did this with the MX suite. They were up-front about it. But that was after Macromedia lost its mind. I know, bad joke.

Adobe followed Macromedia's lead (it helped that they bought them) and was up-front about it. I don't have sympathy for people who don't read their licensing agreements and then complain that they didn't know something that in there. It's exactly like our customers not reading our contracts and then complaining about something in it.

I see the problem, for reasons I sort of regret now I wasn't the one who installed and accepted the license agreement for the suite. However if expressly stated in the agreement than I don't have any room for argument. I still think it's a poor standard. But a contract is a contract and I "agreed" to it.
I completely agree with you Jim/Adam/Dan... I will now shut my pie hole

I just re-read what I had written and it came off much stronger than I thought. I didn't mean to rail into you. Sorry about that.

No worries. I've read enough of your posts to know that you're a good guy.