

Pros: You’ll always have the latest and greatest post-processing tools in what is generally considered to be the most powerful editing tools out there (you get both Lightroom and Photoshop) and the price is close to being reasonable.Ĭons: You are required to sign up for at least 12 months and you are stuck with a constant monthly subscription. This might be OK if you already have at least version CS3 as Adobe currently has a deal (through Dec 31, 2013) that will let you move to the CC for $9.99 a month for owners of CS3/4/5/6. So, here are some options to consider if this move by Adobe has tweaked your pendulous proboscis…ġ) Go ahead and upgrade to the Creative Cloud version of Photoshop. Many of us who had been upgrading our Photoshop every other version (or even less often) have done the calculations and have decided it is just not cost effective. With CC, you have no physical CDs, you pay a monthly subscription rate, and you receive constant updates as they are released.

In case you have been living under a very large, heavy, moss-covered, rock, Adobe has released their last physical Photoshop CD set with CS6 and they say the CC version is the way things will work in the future. Given the outcry with the release of the Adobe Photoshop Creative Cloud (CC) subscription idea, it seems to me there is an opportunity out there for other software companies to fill a growing void.
