Software Licensing - ADOBE

The University of Akron has signed a two-year CLP (Contractual Licensing Program) contract with Adobe. This contract allows for reduced pricing on select Adobe products.

Work-at-home rights (WAH) are available only to those members of a department who have purchased the following software programs under the Contractual Licensing Program. (Software must be installed on client’s office machine.) Please submit the Adobe Faculty/Staff License Agreement form with all Work-at-home requests.

There is currently a student option under this license agreement. Students receive select University pricing on the following software programs: Acrobat Professional & Creative Suite Premium. Other Adobe products are available through Computer Solutions at educational retail pricing.

Licensing Agreement Form
For a copy of the Faculty/Staff licensing agreement for Work-at-Home rights, click here.

Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended


Ideal for film, video, and multimedia professionals and graphic and web designers using 3D and motion, as well as professionals in engineering and science, Adobe® Photoshop® CS3 Extended software delivers everything in Photoshop CS3 and more. Render and incorporate 3D images into your 2D composites. Stop time with easy editing of motion graphics on video layers. And probe your images with measurement, analysis, and visualization tools.

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Adobe Photoshop CS3

Adobe® Photoshop® CS3 software accelerates your path from imagination to imagery. Ideal for photographers, graphic designers, and web designers, the professional standard delivers new features such as automatic layer alignment and blending that enable advanced compositing. Live filters boost the comprehensive, nondestructive editing toolset for increased flexibility. And a streamlined interface and new timesaving tools make your work flow faster.

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Adobe Illustrator CS3

Adobe® Illustrator® CS3 software allows you to create sophisticated artwork for virtually any medium. Industry-standard drawing tools, flexible color controls, and professional type controls help you capture your ideas and experiment freely, while timesaving features such as easier-to-access options let you work quickly and intuitively. Improved performance and tight integration with other Adobe applications also help you produce extraordinary graphics for print, web and interactive, and mobile and motion designs.

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Adobe InDesign CS3

Explore more creative possibilities and experience new levels of productivity using Adobe® InDesign® CS3 page layout software. Built for demanding workflows, InDesign integrates smoothly with Adobe Photoshop®, Illustrator®, Acrobat®, InCopy®, and Dreamweaver® software; offers powerful features for creating richer, more complex documents; and reliably outputs pages to multiple media. With its sophisticated design features and enhanced productivity tools for streamlining repetitive tasks, InDesign CS3 lets you work faster and better than ever.

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Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional

Tightly integrated into four editions of Adobe® Creative Suite® 3, Adobe Acrobat® 8 Professional software streamlines creative workflows with tools that help you efficiently collaborate with team members; easily review layouts, comps, and schematics; distribute secure documents online; and deliver reliable, high-quality printed documents.

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Adobe Flash CS3 Professional

Adobe® Flash® CS3 Professional software is the most advanced authoring environment for creating rich, interactive content for digital, web, and mobile platforms. Create interactive websites, rich media advertisements, instructional media, engaging presentations, games, and more. Designers and developers working on both Macintosh and Windows® systems depend on Flash and the ubiquitous Adobe Flash Player software to ensure their content reaches the widest possible audience.

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Adobe Dreamweaver CS3

Quickly and easily design, develop, and maintain websites and web applications — from start to finish — with Adobe® Dreamweaver® CS3 software. Built for both designers and developers, Dreamweaver CS3 offers the choice of working in an intuitive visual layout interface or a streamlined coding environment. Intelligent integration with Adobe Photoshop® CS3, Adobe Illustrator® CS3, Adobe Fireworks® CS3, Adobe Flash® CS3 Professional, and Adobe Contribute® CS3 software ensures efficient workflow across your favorite tools.

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Adobe Contribute CS3

Adobe® Contribute® CS3 enables content authors to quickly and easily update existing websites and blogs while maintaining site integrity — with no technical expertise required

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Adobe Fireworks CS3

Accelerate web design and development with Adobe® Fireworks® CS3 software, the ideal tool for creating and optimizing images for the web and rapidly prototyping websites and web applications. Fireworks CS3 offers the flexibility to edit both vector and bitmap images, a common library of prebuilt assets, and timesaving integration with Adobe Photoshop® CS3, Adobe Illustrator® CS3, Adobe Dreamweaver® CS3, and Adobe Flash® CS3 software. Mock up designs quickly in Fireworks, or leverage other assets from Illustrator, Photoshop, and Flash. Then move directly into Dreamweaver CS3 for easy development and deployment.

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Adobe After Effects CS3 Professional

Bring your vision to life with blockbuster visual effects and compelling motion graphics in Adobe® After Effects® CS3 Professional software. Work with sophisticated tools and enjoy tight integration with Adobe's leading design applications while you deliver stunning work to virtually any media type. Design from scratch or jump-start projects from hundreds of customizable presets and templates — all from within a streamlined interface.

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Adobe Premiere Pro CS3

Tell your story with maximum impact using Adobe® Premiere® Pro CS3 software, the start-to-finish solution for efficient video production that now includes Adobe OnLocation™ CS3* (Windows® only) and Adobe Encore® CS3. Save time from on-set capture using Adobe OnLocation through to output, expand your creative options via integration with Adobe After Effects® CS3 Professional and Photoshop® CS3 software, and deliver your content to DVD, Blu-ray Disc, the web, and mobile devices.

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Adobe OnLocation

Now included with Adobe® Premiere® Pro CS3, Adobe OnLocation™ CS3* (Windows® only) is powerful direct-to-disk recording and monitoring software to help you produce superior-quality results from your video camera. Designed to run on a laptop or workstation, Adobe OnLocation CS3 gives you an impressive array of production tools to help you shoot better and faster while saving you time and money. The previous version of Adobe OnLocation was the award-winning DV Rack™ HD software sold by Serious Magic

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Adobe Ultra CS3

Now included in the Windows® edition of Adobe® Creative Suite® 3 Production Premium software, Adobe Ultra® CS3 software allows users to transform keying into a practical daily production tool for all types of video projects. Create highly realistic background composites with drag-and-drop simplicity, even from marginal video sources; customize virtual sets with convincing effects like virtual shadows and reflections; and output in broadcast quality to a wide range of advanced file formats.

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