How to Gain Access to Adobe Creative Suite
(Photoshop, Flash, and Dreamweaver)

• Have access to one of the computer labs on the Tahlequah, Oklahoma campus. Adobe Photoshop CS3, Adobe Flash CS3, and Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 are installed on the computers in WEBB 307 and most of the computer labs in the College of Business and Techology Building.

• Have access to the computer lab on the Muskogee, Oklahoma campus. Adobe Photoshop CS3, Adobe Flash CS3, and Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 have been installed on four computers on the left hand side of the room in NSUM 116. There is never a lab attendant, but if anyone has any problems they can use the phone in the room and call Ext. 5023.

• Have access to the computer lab on the Broken Arrow, Oklahoma campus. Adobe Photoshop CS3, Adobe Flash CS3, and Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 have been installed on four computers in lab 137 in Building BABT in Broken Arrow. One computer on each of the four rows has it, and are marked. If you are looking at the lab from the front of the room, looking left to right, the PCs are: 2nd machine on the 1st row, 5th machine on the second row, 4th machine on the third row, and the 3rd machine on the 4th row. These PCs are also labeled indicating they have Adobe CS3 installed on them. The labs in Broken Arrow have 24 hour access Monday-Thursday, and are open 8am-11pm Friday-Sunday. There should be a lab attendant on duty 12-9 Monday-Friday, and 4-9 Saturday and Sunday. However, a lab attendant is not guaranteed during all shifts.
• Purchase the software yourself. Make sure to take advantage of the educational discount price! Creative Suite 6 Design and Web Premium Student and Teacher Edition (Windows Download) currently costs around $449. This includes Adobe Photoshop CS6 Extended, Adobe Flash Professional CS6, Adobe Dreamweaver CS6 and several other applications. If you call the NSU bookstore (RiverHawk Shoppe) they will refer you to the following URL: Campus E-store

• Download a free 30 day-trial version of the software from the Adobe website. This is not a guaranteed option - see the warning messages (risks) below. I do not recommend taking this course, if you must rely entirely on the free trial-version of the software. If you do use the trial version, you might want to wait and install the software when you can devote a lot of time to this course.
  • Risk #1 - Adobe may disallow this option as it has done several times in the past. For example, Adobe typically does not allow trial versions to be downloaded - when they are close to releasing a new version of their software.
  • Risk #2 - The software you download may not be the same version as the software used on the training videos the instructor has created.

Below are some release dates of the Adobe products. Adobe CS6 - released May 2012 Adobe CS5 - released May 2010 Adobe CS4 - released October 2008 Adobe CS3 - released May 2007 I will be working on training videos for Adobe Photoshop CS6 in the upcoming weeks.