Two money-saving opportunities have come to my attention today for software that I have recently reviewed and recommended. As they just might save you £1,500, I thought I should pass them on…

The first is a very significant saving of 50% on Maxon Cinema 4D from Maxon itself. Cinema 4D has long been the PC Pro recommended choice for accessible high-end 3D and, as my Cinema 4D 11 review shows, the program continues to push back the boundaries in terms of ease of use and 3D power.

In fact, Cinema 4D’s unique BodyPaint 3D painting and new ProjectionMan matte painting capabilities are each well worth the core version’s discounted price of £324.50 (exc VAT). And, if you’re very serious about your 3D, then here’s your chance to buy Cinema 4D 11 complete with all add-on modules (see Cinema 4D 11 Studio Bundle review) for “just” £1,424.50 (exc VAT).

A couple of caveats: you need to have proof of purchase of a qualifying third-party 3D app and I’m afraid that, as the offer finishes at the end of the month, you only have a couple of days left to take advantage.

The other special offer price is an over 40% saving on Nitro PDF Professional bringing it down to the princely sum of $49.95.

It’s not clear from the Avanquest site how long this “limited time offer” lasts nor if it’s for the latest version 6 (I’m assuming it is as they emphasise speed, but on the other hand the current RRP is actually $99). In a way though that’s not the point. The real comparison here is less against previous versions or the current RRP, than against Nitro PDF Professional’s real target: Adobe Acrobat Standard.

As I say in my Nitro PDF Professional review : “Nitro PDF Professional doesn’t offer leading-edge, let alone bleeding-edge support for PDF, but … for its target audience Nitro PDF Professional offers the most important selling point of all: value. With a price of $99, Nitro PDF Professional is designed to offer 90% of Acrobat Standard’s functionality at a third of its $299 price.”

When the comparison is made between Nitro PDF Professional’s discounted price of $50 and a dollar conversion of Adobe’s rip-off UK pricing of £275 that means that you can actually buy around nine copies of Nitro PDF Professional for every copy of Acrobat Standard. And that’s excluding VAT.

Well worth investigating.