When requesting or approving licenses for software, please consider the use case when evaluating what software or license is required.
Canva
Simple, fast, and collaborative creative tools.
Enterprise version available at no cost to UMass Amherst students, faculty, and staff.
Great for easy, fast, and collaborative graphic design for social media, presentations and more; simple image and video editing.
Stay on-brand easily with the UMass Amherst brand kit available in Canva.
Students can log in with their UMass Amherst account. Faculty and staff can request a license at no cost. Learn more
Adobe Creative Cloud
High level professional creative software suite.
Great for advanced and professional graphic/layout design, photo editing, and video editing.
Applications included in UMass Amherst's Creative Cloud license
- Acrobat Pro
- Adobe Express
- Adobe Firefly
- Adobe Fresco
- Adobe Scan
- Adobe XD
- Aero
- After Effects
- Animate
- Audition
- Bridge
- Capture
- Character Animator
- Dreamweaver
- Fill & Sign
- Illustrator
- InCopy
- InDesign
- Lightroom
- Lightroom Classic
- Lightroom Web
- Media Encoder
- Photoshop
- Photoshop Express
- Premiere Pro
Faculty, staff, and graduate students with an active GEO-eligible appointment who have a valid university-use case can request a license at no cost.
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Adobe Express
Simple and fast online creative tools. Formerly Adobe Spark.
Great for easy and fast social media graphic design, simple image and video editing.
Students, faculty, and staff can request a license at no cost. Also included with full Creative Cloud license. Learn more
PDF Viewing & Editing
Foxit PDF Editor
UMass Amherst's official PDF editing application.
Available at no cost to UMass Amherst students, faculty, and staff.
Great for most PDF editing use cases - including editing text, filling forms accessibility review, and more.
Students, faculty, and staff can request a Foxit license at no cost. Learn more
Acrobat Reader
Free PDF viewer provided by Adobe .
Great for basic pdf viewing. Does not include editing features.
Available directly from Adobe at no cost.
Acrobat Pro
Professional PDF editing application from Adobe.
Great for PDF editing functionalities in cases where Foxit may encounter issues, such as select grant applications.
Faculty and staff who have a valid university-use case can request a license at no cost. Learn more
Additional options available in the Digital Media Lab
UMass Libraries' Digital Media Lab workstations have access to an array of multimedia software.