Buying Photoshop

I'd love to have the full version of Photoshop (I have Elements at the moment) but it is hideously expensive. Has anyone here gone down the student edition route? I have two kids at school but they are both at primary school - would they still qualify? Presumably some proof of eligability would be required. Failing this is there any other way a reduced price version can be obtained?

What about Photoshop Elements 7? Camera World have it on their website(wwwcameraworld.co.uk)at £55 and in this week's AP they are offering the Windows version at £49.99. Mail order phone number is 0844 264 0664.
Peter

Hi Peter

My post is a bit old. I bought Elements 7.0 a while back as an upgrade to Elements 5. Having researched it I'm not sure that the extra functions I would use on the full version are worth the extra cost. The function I wanted most was layer masks and I can get round that in Elements using an adjustment layer (which does have a mask in Elements) linked to the layer I want to mask.

Colin

Colin, what about buying Elements 7 then upgrading that to CS4? I'm sure it's possible and that would only(!) cost about £250.
PS You talk about YOUR post being old!

Hi Peter

Where do you get £250 from? The upgrade from Elements 7 to CS4 is £540!