Description

The Adobe Creative Cloud collection of software is available to all MSU  students (graduate and undergraduate) at no additional cost through MSU's Adobe Enterprise agreement.* 

 

Adobe Creative Cloud Software

  • After Effects
  • Animate Audition
  • Bridge
  • Ilustrator
  • InDesign
  • Photoshop 
  • Spark
  • Audition
  • Acrobat Pro
  • Dimension
  • Dreamweaver
  • Lightroom
  • Premiere Pro
  • XD
See Adobe Catalog for complete list.
 

System Requirements

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

See FAQ for answers to questions about your Adobe Creative Cloud account, assets, stock images, etc.  

*Stock images are not included in MSU's Adobe license.

Download Creative Cloud

NOTE on Installation:  While it is possible to run older Adobe CS software side-by-side with Adobe CC software, we do recommend uninstalling it to avoid confusion.

1. Go to Adobe.com.

2. Click Sign In in the upper right hand corner of screen.

3. Click Sign in with your student email address under the Sign In button (highlighted in the image below)

Single Single on Screen Capture

4. Enter @student.montana.edu in the email address field then hit the Tab key.   See image below. 

(You can enter your full MSU address if you want but the important part is the @student.montana.edu - do not enter a personal address). 

image of @student.montana.edu entered into the email field and the Enterprise signin .

MSU's Web Login page opens. 

*NOTE: If you are prompted again with the screen shown in the image below, select Enterprise ID.  
Screenshot of Choose an account for Adobe ID or Enterprise ID

This may occur if you already have an AdobeCC account connected to your @student.montana.edu email address.

6. Enter your NetID and NetID Password when presented with the MSU Web Login page.

7. Click under the Creative Cloud Apps heading.

8. Scroll down to Creative Cloud app and click Download.
You need to do this BEFORE downloading other apps.

Image showing red creative cloud logo

10. Follow the onscreen instructions to install.

Once you have installed the Creative Cloud App you will use it to access, install/update other Adobe CC software to your desktop.

1. Open the Creative Cloud application on your computer by either clicking the CC swirly cloud icon located in the menu bar on the top right of screen (Mac) on the desktop tray (Windows) or open it from your Applications/Programs folder.

2. Sign in using Enterprise ID by following the same steps as you did above.    

3. Click the Apps tab.

Image showing the tabs available in the creative cloud app: home, apps, assets, stock, community

4. Scroll through the listed apps and choose those you'd like to install or update.  Download and follow onscreen instructions when prompted. 

 

To avoid confusion we recommend uninstalling Adobe CS software before installing Adobe CC although they can run side-by-side.

To uninstall Adobe CS please follow these directions: 

1. Open the Control Panel on your computer.

2. Click Add or Remove Programs or Programs and Features.

3. Scroll to Adobe software on your computer (will include CS6, CS5, etc. in name of program)

4. Click the software you want to uninstall.

5. Click the Uninstall button that appears near top of the list of programs.

For more information visit Uninstall or Change programs in Windows.

1. Go to the Finder. 

2. Navigate to Applications folder.

3. Select the app you want to uninstall.

4. Drag application icon to the Trash or right-click on select "Move to Trash".

5. Right-click on the Trash can and select "Empty Trash". 

 

 

 

Creative Cloud Asset Migration Tool

Take your Creative Cloud Assets with you!

Don't leave your assets behind when you leave school. You can now take all the creative artifacts that you so painstakingly created at school. 

Use Adobe's Student Asset Migration portal to automatically transfer most of your creative assets from your assigned school account to a personal account that you create.

The tool enables Students to migrate your assets from MSU-assigned accounts to new Creative Cloud free membership accounts. 

Here’s what it takes for students to participate:

  • You must still have access to your school-assigned accounts.
  •  You will need to sign up for a new personal account where your assets are migrated


All the information you need is available at this link: https://helpx.adobe.com/enterprise/using/migrate-student-assets.html

Start the process by clicking on this link: https://graduation.adobe.com/

Training

 

 

NOTE on logging into Linkedin Learning /  Lynda.com
After clicking one of the Lynda tutorial links above follow these instructions:

  1. Click the Sign In button (not Sign Up), then click Continue(see image below).
  2. Log in with your MSU NetID and password. 

Screenshot of the Lynda login Continue button which directs you to MSU's login page then redirects you back to Lynda.



IMPORTANT: If you are not prompted with the box shown above, go to https://www.lib.montana.edu/resources/about/743 .  Enter your NetID and Password when prompted. When the Lynda page opens enter Creative Cloud into the Search field to find tutorials.