I am a happy amateur photographer, and have always been an avid user of Adobe Photoshop, and later Adobe Photoshop Lightroom.

The price for these products are somewhat high, and since I don’t have a company to pay for my products I had to use older versions. Or use the versions at my professional job.

Until now.

I recently found out that I was able to save more than 80%  on Adobe’s products, here’s how.

My son is in primary school, and is therefore eligible to purchase software through Adobe’s educational program. Here are my calculations for purchasing Photoshop and Lightroom.

And when using the Educational store of Adobe:

There are however limitations to the usage of the educational products, more about this and links to the Adobe Store after the jump.

First of all, the educational products can’t be used for profit, but only for your own pleasure, and thus also for your TFCD/TFP sessions.

I have spoken with the Danish Adobe support staff, and they confirm that I could purchase an educational product for our home computer using my sons credentials.

Here is the link to the educational store: http://www.adobe.com/education/ remember to switch to your own language at the top.

Please note that some rules apply, if you are above the age of 18 you need to provide a valid student Id with a picture of yourself.