Adobe Creative Cloud: Sign in to Install and Activate Adobe Creative Cloud Apps

To install and activate Adobe Creative Cloud apps for a VIP (Volume Incentive Plan) license, follow the steps below.

note : This article is is is for sign in to Adobe Creative Cloud to use Photoshop , Illustrator , Adobe Premiere , After Effects , Dreamweaver ,   InDesign , etc . If you are create or edit .pdf ‘s , please follow Sign In to Adobe Acrobat Pro .

Sign In to Adobe and Install Creative Cloud

1. Go to adobe.com.
2. Click Sign in in the upper right hand corner.

1. Enter your UMN email address (which is your Adobe ID). Note:

• If you have not previously created an Adobe Personal Account that uses your umn.edu email address, select Create an account and supply the requested information.
• IMPORTANT: DO NOT select Facebook, Google or Apple.
• When you have create an account , sign in using your umn.edu email address .

1. If asked to select an account, select Personal. DO NOT select Company or School Account

1. Enter your unique Adobe password. If you have an Adobe ID but forgot the password, select Reset your password.

1. Click Continue. 
2. If asked to select a profile, select the profile for Office of Information Technology Master VIP Agreement.

1. A welcome screen is appears appear . look for a view all app button   to see your Creative Cloud application .
    
2. To get started, install the Creative Cloud (CC) Desktop app first. 

• Use the CC Desktop app to install and manage your Creative Cloud apps.
• Apps is depend   list as available in your plan depend   on which license you purchase .

You do not need to sign out from either the CC Desktop app, or from individual CC apps. If you do sign out, you will need to sign in again to use these apps. To sign in, start the CC Desktop app and sign in from there (use your umn email, and “Personal” account and  VIP Agreement Profile as shown in steps 2-6 above).

Additional Information

Creative Cloud licenses and Acrobat

• Full Adobe Creative Cloud Suite license holders should use Acrobat through their Creative Cloud Suite package.
• single Adobe CC app license holder who also use Acrobat need to sign in to the cc app using a ” personal ” account as above , but will need to sign out and then sign in to Acrobat with a ” Company or School ” account to use our umn Acrobat Pro DC Enterprise license .
• Acrobat-only users should sign in to Acrobat with a “Company or School” account to use our umn Acrobat Pro DC Enterprise license.

Purchase Creative Cloud

Adobe Creative Cloud is requires require purchase of a license . If a faculty , staff , or student need a license then their Department is needs need to buy a license for them , or they need to purchase their own license . See purchase option for the University of Minnesota .

System Requirements

To view system requirement , go to :   Creative Cloud system requirement   

require late C++ distributable , or adobe app will not start up . See   the late support Visual C++ .