Our new license agreement with Adobe takes full effect today, September 8, 2025. Faculty and staff retain access to the complete Creative Cloud suite—a collection of over 20 applications for photography, video, design, web, UX, and social media—alongside integrated resources such as color palettes, font families, and collaborative capabilities accessible anywhere.
Adobe All Apps (Pro Edition) for Faculty and Staff
With Adobe All Apps (Pro Edition), you’ll be able to:
- Access your Creative Cloud apps, updates, tutorials, and resources in one place
- Access and share graphics, colors, styles, and other creative elements across teams and projects with Creative Cloud Libraries
- Save and organize assets where you create them, with cloud documents
- Find fonts, colors, and templates with Adobe Fonts, Adobe Color, and Adobe Stock.
AI Assistant for Acrobat
Additionally, faculty and staff now benefit from access to Adobe Acrobat AI Assistant, enabling innovative interaction with documents. 
Acrobat AI Assistant is designed to facilitate comprehension, summarization, and engagement with complex files, including PDFs, DOCX, PPTX, TXT, and RTF formats.
With AI Assistant for Acrobat, you can:
- Ask your document questions and receive easy-to-understand answers linked to sources within the document.
- One-click generative summary automatically pulls out key points to help you navigate your docs and get important info fast.
- Generate content for emails, blogs, presentations, research summaries and more.
Students and Adobe Express
Under the updated agreement, we are pleased to announce that students also receive access to Adobe Express. Previously only available to faculty and staff, Adobe Express empowers users to efficiently create high-quality visual content, including graphics, presentations, videos, and documents, all without the necessity of prior design experience.
Licenses are available now, and users can log in and download the Adobe suite of applications at smu.edu/adobe.
Screenshot courtesy of Adobe.
