It’s the beginning of the semester and the expenses are adding up. Students altogether know the feeling of taking around 15 units to stay on track with classes, purchasing several high-priced textbooks, access codes and spending $231 to purchase a semester parking permit. With these costs alone, it’s hard not to feel stretched financially as a college student.
In some cases, professors require the use and purchase of Adobe Creative Cloud, software that is fully priced at $599.88, and with a student discount is $239.88 per year.
However, as of recently, Cal Poly Pomona students can now purchase Adobe Creative Cloud through the school for only $30 per year.
Adobe Creative Cloud gives students access to over 20 applications that can be used for a plethora of projects as well as 100 GB of cloud storage. Some commonly-used Adobe applications include InDesign which can be used for designing posters, Photoshop for editing photos and Adobe Premiere for editing and producing videos.
Keith Ma, a third-year transfer visual communication design student, uses several Adobe applications for his major, such as Photoshop and InDesign, which are “used heavily in the industry.”
“I have used Adobe Photoshop for practicing photo manipulation and sometimes projects for class, and InDesign for typography class,” Ma said.
purchase the software on a personal computer for the discounted rate of $30 per year.
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Before the discounted rate of $30, students would purchase the entire creative suite through Adobe’s website for a discounted rate of $19.99 per month, which amounts to $239.88 per year. The only caveat here is that even with the monthly installments, Adobe’s student plan is an annual contract, meaning that if a student cancels before the full year is up, s/he will incur a hefty cancelation fee.
According to Adobe’s website, “If you cancel after 14 days, your service will continue until the end of that month’s billing period, and you will be charged an early termination fee of 50% of your remaining contract obligation.” This means if you still have eight months left of your contract, you’ll be paying around $80 for early cancelation.
“Thirty dollars a year seems really cheap compared to the regular (price) a year for everything, including the storage plan that you can choose,” Ma said.
The Adobe Creative Cloud applications are sophisticated and can be difficult to figure out how to use. To get help with Adobe applications, Associated Students Inc. and the Bronco Events and Activities Team are offering an upcoming Adobe Creative Suite workshop series, focusing on Photoshop specifically.
The beginner and intermediate classes will take place in the library, Building 15, room 2907 during U-Hour on Oct. 1 and Oct. 8, respectively.
To RSVP for either workshop, visit https://mybar.cpp.edu/events?query=creative%20suite.
