{"id":11083,"date":"2006-03-20T13:31:08","date_gmt":"2006-03-20T13:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2006\/03\/why-do-i-have-to-pay-for-the-photoshop-sdk.html"},"modified":"2006-03-20T13:31:08","modified_gmt":"2006-03-20T13:31:08","slug":"why_do_i_have_to_pay_for_the_photoshop_sdk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/20\/why_do_i_have_to_pay_for_the_photoshop_sdk\/","title":{"rendered":"Why do I have to pay for the Photoshop SDK?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A. You don&#8217;t!  Technically, you never did, but a few years back a policy change meant that in order to request the SDK, you needed a paid membership in the <a href=\"http:\/\/partners.adobe.com\/\" \/>Adobe Solutions Network<\/a>.  There are lots of <a href=\"http:\/\/partners.adobe.com\/public\/asn\/developer\/detail.html\">good reasons to join the ASN<\/a> (co-marketing, tech support, product discounts, etc.), but you shouldn&#8217;t have to sign up just to get the SDK.  So, some time back (at least a year ago) we changed the policy so that you can simply make the request via the SDK via a <a href=\"http:\/\/partners.adobe.com\/public\/developer\/photoshop\/devcenter.html\">Web form<\/a>.<br \/>\nWe&#8217;ve also split the SDK between two different versions, Basic and Advanced.  The Basic SDK includes everything you&#8217;ll need except the File Format and File Import\/Export information.  For that, you&#8217;ll need to make a request through the link provided above so that we can do the additional paperwork to get you the Advanced SDK (still no charge).<br \/>\nWe haven\u2019t done a good job of communicating this change (in fact, some of the <a href=\"http:\/\/partners.adobe.com\/public\/developer\/photoshop\/topic_in_depth.html\">old info<\/a> still exists &amp; needs to be updated), so I thought I\u2019d blog it here.  [Update: There&#8217;s also a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobeforums.com\/cgi-bin\/webx?14@1013.19bGgDEQanM.0@.3bbc5053\">user-to-user forum<\/a> for discussion of SDK-related issues.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A. You don&#8217;t! Technically, you never did, but a few years back a policy change meant that in order to request the SDK, you needed a paid membership in the Adobe Solutions Network. There are lots of good reasons to join the ASN (co-marketing, tech support, product discounts, etc.), but you shouldn&#8217;t have to sign [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11083"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}