On Oct 17, 2008, at 2:13 PM, Cory Waters wrote:
I have a couple question for those of you who use more than one
computer to work on your images.
Do you have a copy of Aperture/Photoshop/Lightroom/etc. on each?
Isn't that too expensive?
I've got the desktop XP machine that's got an older version of
Photoshop Elements (5). I decided when 6 came out that I'd wait for
the next round to update. Now I've got this Macbook that needs
something loaded onto it. What to do? buy software for the portable
and leave the desktop alone? Buy something like Lightroom ($$$) for
the Macbook and do the more serious editing on the desktop with the
older software?
My desktop system is a Power Mac G5 and my laptop is a PowerBook G4.
The Adobe Photoshop CS2 and Lightroom EULAs allows two installed
copies so they are installed on each of my systems.
Lightroom is distributed under a Universal End User License
Agreement ... that is, one EULA applies to both Mac OS X and Windows
operating systems. In the box is the installer for both OS versions.
So if you have one each of the two machines, just run the install on
each machine. Beyond that, Lightroom so far does not require an
Activation so even if this is somewhat beyond the scope of the
permissions granted in the EULA by Adobe's intent, it will work.
Photoshop CS2 is licensed separately for each OS platform and requires
an activation, so that solution to having both on both your systems
would not work. I'm not sure whether CS3 or CS4 have been revised to
operate under a Universal EULA, you might check with Adobe Licensing.
For your MacBook, you want CS3 as a minimum.
However, since I've installed Lightroom 2 (now the 2.1RC), I've hardly
used Photoshop for much other than non-image-processing types of
things (adding borders, formatting text and graphics together, etc).
When I was on the road in the British Isles and on my trip to
Washington state with the laptop, I could have done without Photoshop
entirely, although it is nice to have it along 'just in case'.
I'm not sure about the Photoshop Elements EULA... it's a pretty
inexpensive product so they might not have the same options in the
EULA. Adobe Licensing is the right source for information. However, if
you use Lightroom 2, the additional $80 for PSE on either Mac OS X or
Windows, depending upon where you think you need it, isn't too terrible.
If you are a student or work in education, you should be able to
obtain academic pricing. Lightroom is $99, PSE is $70, Photoshop is
around $200.
Godfrey
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