To put it briefly#
Visit the official Adobe website in Turkey to purchase the full suite package. It costs about 400 RMB per year (current exchange rate). Do not buy from Taobao sellers as they generally sell it for around 1200 RMB per year. The process is very simple.
Procedure#
- Visit the educational version purchase page in the Turkish region: https://www.adobe.com/tr/creativecloud/buy/students.html
- Register and purchase as usual. I tested it with my own China Merchants VISA card and it worked.
- When it comes to verifying educational information, just fill in random details. I filled in Tsinghua University as my school and pretended to be a freshman. Adobe doesn't even require an educational email address for verification, so it passes easily.
- If you encounter any strange issues preventing you from purchasing, you can try using a VPN to connect to the Turkish region and change your computer's time zone to Turkish time. I did it this way when I made the purchase, but I haven't verified if it actually works.
- That's it, once you've made the purchase, you can use it normally.
Chatting#
Lately, Adobe seems to be getting stricter. The well-known @vposy has announced on Weibo that they will stop updating. The prices in the Chinese region are also too expensive. The Chinese version has many issues (the company uses the Chinese version). AE can't be changed to English (which causes problems with plugins and expressions). The cloud storage also can't be used. Initially, the AI-powered features in Illustrator didn't support the Chinese region either. In short, it's expensive and problematic.
At first, I wanted to take the easy way out and found a seller on Taobao claiming to sell a genuine version for 1200 RMB per year. After making the purchase, I received an email and realized it was in Turkish, with the price displayed as 1272 Turkish Lira. I casually checked the exchange rate. What? It's only about 400 RMB per year? After logging into the official website, I saw that my educational verification had been approved. This is such an easy way to make money, so I decided to earn back the price difference myself.
At first, I even prepared an educational email address and bought one for 5 RMB on Taobao. I even asked the seller if they support Adobe verification.
Then, I searched Google for "Adobe" and "Turkey" and found out that I just needed to purchase it from the official Turkish website. So, I successfully made the purchase and went through the educational verification process. At first, I couldn't find the address to fill in the educational email, which made me nervous. But after registering and making the payment, it directly showed that the verification was successful.
About AI#
The AI content-aware fill feature in Photoshop is really useful. In the past, I had to do various adjustments when the image size was incorrect, but now I can simply crop it and let it intelligently fill in the rest. There's no learning curve at all. In fact, it's even better to let it generate a few more images randomly than to spend time thinking of keywords.
Adobe's audio noise reduction feature is also very useful: https://podcast.adobe.com/enhance. Just upload the audio and it will automatically apply AI noise reduction. It's currently free.
By the way, Adobe's online design platform also has AI capabilities and it's currently free. If you're interested, you can give it a try. There are many templates available: https://new.express.adobe.com/