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Some may know that being a teacher here in Western Australia means that I get an education department supplied laptop, fully insured and warrantied on lease. That's one perk. Another is that the education department also supplies me with Adobe CS6 Premium. For free!... Yeah, that's pretty good.

But the lease deal with the laptop is becoming less and less attractive financially as the model we get is fairly average and compared to something I could buy in the shop, not all that cost effective. Even with the 3 year all inclusive warranty and insurance. Another negative is that the security restrictions being imposed on the newer replacement laptops by the dept. laptop scheme now means that you can't even do patches and updates (for instance, for the anti virus or even a simple java update) unless you bring it into work, go to the the in house techie and get him to either a) do the update himself, or b) give you temporary admin privileges so you can do it yourself.... Something which would only take 5 minutes or so at home as we all know. God forbid that we should want to install some actual software... like chrome or mozilla or photoshop...!!! Yeah, no, stuff that...

So to buy my own laptop seems to be the way to go right? And I'll do that when the time comes and my current lease expires. But then I'm going to lose the CS6 that I have now... Back to the old CS2 I thought, unless I could maybe buy CS6? So I looked it up. $2098 retail!! Gah!!... Even with Adobe's education discount, it was still going to be about $700.... The wife said, no....

But then a fellow teacher at school said there's another little perk the education department offers. It's called the Work at Home scheme and it allows staff in the education department to buy software for personal use ( and the odd school stuff of course) from Microsoft and Adobe for a nominal cost... And I mean nominal. Adobe CS6 Premium for Web, which is the full package, with the extended bits, and the cloud access if you so choose, costs me.... (Brace yourself now...)

$54.95....

I can only ever purchase one copy and have to provide my education dept. credentials, ID number and so on so they can keep track of that, but c'mon.... $54.95....

It arrived in the mail today. :)

(Ps yes I know I could get a pirate copy easily enough but I'm an honest person here and like I said.... $54.95 for cryin' out loud! That's a $2040-odd discount! A pirate copy isn't worth the hassle..)

Cheers
Sean
  • Mood: Happy
  • Listening to: the alice cooper show on the radio
  • Reading: james clavell - shogun (still...it's a big bo
  • Watching: assorted documentaries on the internet
  • Eating: choc covered scotch finger biscuits
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Sean Ellery
Artist | Hobbyist | Digital Art
Australia
I'm a high school teacher of Social Studies + Geography/History during the day and Caped Colouring Crusader by night, colouring stuff on the side as a hobby and the odd paid gig here and there.

(If you're wondering about the picture in the floating screen in my DevID image above then you can find it here --> [link])

Current Residence: Perth Australia
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Favourite style of art: comic digital art
Operating System: win xp
Favourite cartoon character: pinky and the brain
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:iconaurarinoa:
~AuraRinoa 2 hours ago  Hobbyist Artisan Crafter
I love your arts! Gratssssss
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:iconpanther372040:
*waves from Hunter Valley NSW*
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:iconjudgementhol:
Thank you for watching
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:icondarquem:
~darquem 5 days ago  Professional General Artist
that was easy... thank you very much
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*Sabre-Art May 14, 2013  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
cool gallery
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:iconstarlitdragon:
Hey! Amazing colours and lovely work here. I'm just getting into colouring Western style comics - definitely a different challenge, but fun all the same. Looking forward to seeing more of your work!
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~jedvin May 3, 2013  Professional Digital Artist
great work sir, I been following you work for quite sometime
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*tombancroft Apr 30, 2013  Professional Filmographer
Hey Sean, I thought you might be interested in this post I just put up: [link]
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Mood: Joy ~Emerson-Fialho Apr 16, 2013  Professional Digital Artist
Amazing gallery, Sean!!! :iconbravoplz:
Cheers!
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:iconmantisstudiocomics:
Thanks for visiting us !!!!!!!!
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