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title: "Downloading Adobe Creative Cloud"
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Adobe Creative Cloud is a suite of applications offered by UConn ITS. Two different paid licenses are offered:

- **User license: **assigned to a single user, granting app access to *only* that user on up to 2 devices. Only one device may be used at a time, and activating additional machines beyond the 2 will require deactivating one of the others. Other users of their machine will not have access to the license.
- **Device license:** assigned to a single machine, granting app access on *only* that machine by any user, even if they don’t have their own paid license.

Licenses can be [purchased by students via Touchnet](https://software.uconn.edu/adobe-products-students/) (user license only). 

> ℹ️ **This article provides instructions only for individuals with a user license. **If you purchased a device license, you must coordinate directly with ITS on deploying the Creative Cloud package to your device.

## Instructions

1. Once a license has been purchased, Creative Cloud can be downloaded from Adobe’s website: [https://www.adobe.com/download/creative-cloud](https://www.adobe.com/download/creative-cloud)
2. Click on **Download Creative Cloud** and the download should begin. The page will scroll down to instructions on how to complete the install.
3. If you are on a UConn-owned Mac, you will need to [elevate your account to admin](https://uconn.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/IKB/pages/27044249601) first.
4. Once downloaded, run the installer and follow the on-screen instructions.
5. Open the Creative Cloud app. If you need assistance logging in, see this article: [Logging into Adobe Creative Cloud](https://uconn.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/IKB/pages/27145371688)