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September 18, 2025
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Unwarranted Price Increase for Photoshop Bundle

  • September 18, 2025
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I have been a loyal Adobe supporter and have bought many editions of Lightroom before it morphed into the Photoshop Grouping. I never use the cloud storage, Camera Raw, rarely use Photoshop, but do use Lightroom Classic. I suffered through the move to a subscription model and then several price increases. But this final insult of raising the price by almost 70% is really beyond belief. 

I intend to spend the next few weeks checking out ON1 Raw, Darktable, Affinity Pro and any other free or cheaper software packages as it is very likely i will be leaving Adobe for hopefully greener pastures. It seems that they no longer want hobbyists, but just professionals, (who can claim a deduction for these price increases on their tax returns).

My first foray into On1 Raw is extremely promising. I think Adobe will lose people to competitors, who, while not necessarily as good, do offer a lot of the same features for a much better price and some features are even better than Adobes. 

LeoneM

Correct answer kglad

the photography plan paid annually did not undergo a price increase, if you opt to change your plan from monthly to annual pay.

 

https://helpx.adobe.com/manage-account/using/change-plan.html

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kglad
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kgladCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
Community Expert
September 18, 2025

the photography plan paid annually did not undergo a price increase, if you opt to change your plan from monthly to annual pay.

 

https://helpx.adobe.com/manage-account/using/change-plan.html

leonem12Author
Participant
September 18, 2025

That's strange. In Australia, whenever I've rung Adobe to change to yearly plan (thinking it would be chesper)  they have refused to allow me to do it  AND said, the total for the year, is exactly the same price as the monthly, just multiplied by 12.  I will ring them today, to see if its possible.

kglad
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September 18, 2025

or there's something different about australia subscriptions.