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Acrobat Studio vs Creative Cloud

Audience:

Students transitioning from a full Adobe Creative Cloud Suite license.

What Acrobat Studio and Creative Cloud have in common

Students moving from a full Creative Cloud Suite license will no longer have access to the full suite of creative applications. However, the Acrobat Studio for Education license includes:

  • Adobe Acrobat Pro, DC Standard and Reader
  • Adobe Express and Photoshop Express Premium
  • Adobe Services: Firefly, Express Premium, Portfolio, Fonts, Stock (w/ Express), PDF services and DC cloud storage, Sign transactions, Community access
  • Core PDF tools for editing, commenting, organizing, signing, and exporting documents
  • Cloud-based storage for Acrobat and Express projects

Adobe Express remains available for quick design work such as flyers, social media graphics, presentations, and simple videos.

Key Differences: Acrobat Studio vs. Creative Cloud Suite

Acrobat Studio’s focus is document workflows and collaboration with an essential selection of web and mobile apps for multimedia creation.

Acrobat Studio

Acrobat Studio for Education provides students with tools focused on PDF creation, editing, and collaboration. This license is designed specifically for student academic use.

Features:

Robust support for PDF review, editing and collaboration on desktop and web. Designed for collaboration and document workflows Ideal if you primarily need Adobe Acrobat for work along with some light, creative applications. Less expensive and minimal compared to Adobe Creative Cloud Suite

*Applications such as Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere Pro, After Effects, and other full Creative Cloud desktop apps are not included with this license.*

Creative Cloud Suite

A comprehensive suite of advanced creative desktop software Professional, advanced applications that can meet almost every creative need A better choice if you anticipate needing to customize and fine tune your creative work flows Recommended if you are planning to build a professional career in a creative field and want to learn advanced tools. Students requiring advanced creative production features should consider paying extra for the Creative Cloud application suite.