im not technically a student. I presume you have to be in full time education to get a student version? Im content enough plugging away on the PLE, its a bit annoying though seeing some screenshots of other peoples work which are all hyper smooth. im not sure what resolution it is, but i think in PLE any render, even just for stillshots, is capped at quite a low resolution, so I can never get that polished look to anything I put my time into :-( and there's that watermark. grumble grumble