P: You don't have enough credits...

Now I’ve upgraded to 2026 I have just encountered this ‘ceiling’ on my credit limit and I am absolutely FUMING. Adobe - how dare you take an integrated tool within our workflow, that we’ve been using for the last few versions of the software free of charge and an actual part of the functionality of the software and now have us PAY for the privilege of using it?

Whether we are allocated a set amount of credits or not, you are now forcefully restricting us from being able to make use of the tools and filters you already introduced into your software. What next? A charge for using the Hue & Saturation or Contrast filters? You devious, greedy company.

I took out a Creative Cloud monthly subscription to use Photoshop as part of my workflow, not be told from inside the software that I don’t have enough credits for another part of the subscription package. This is morally wrong.

Either remove the AI junk from the software so I know what parts I’ve paid for and can actually use or create a version WITHOUT it in the first place (Lord knows you have enough variations of your products anyway so a clean, functional version of Photoshop where I’m not faced with these insulting, greedy prompts shouldn’t be a problem).

Charging Firefly credits for new tools and filters - fine - but to now have us pay for the privilege of using tools that have existed for at least 2 years - a shocking way of ripping off your users.

So I went and looked to see if I can just add on some credits for the current work I'm doing as this is the first time I've reach "my limit" of course Adobe doesn't have any add-on packs, you have to comit to some monthly upgrade. So since I only ever use for addition backgrounds anyway (because the subject generative part sucks anyway), I took the images I need to expand the backgrounds on into Nano Banana and got them back faster than the Adobe AI does by ten fold. Good luck Adobe. You lose again.

Typical Adobe. they literally steal peoples work to create the AI and then charge the same people to use it. My days using this software are numbered. I've already dumped everything but photoshop mainly for this feature and here I am, having to "pay more" now. Yeah.... 

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Dear Adobe,
Restricting loyal subscribers to 100 credits Firefly AI (and new ones to 25) is unreasonable and counterproductive. Professionals don’t misuse AI — we use it carefully, to refine work toward perfection, not for gimmicks. If you must, raise the annual subscription slightly, but stop forcing us into absurd bulk bundles. Respect your paying customers and restore freedom of use.So now Adobe thinks 25 credits a month is enough for new subscribers? And 100 for the rest of us? That barely covers a single session. Then  try to sell us thousands we’ll never use. Brilliant business model — ration freedom, upsell absurdity. If this is “creativity for all,” then ethics must have been deleted in the last update. Creativity shouldn’t come with a monthly ration card. Please respect your subscribers. For years we’ve supported Adobe with our money, our work, and our loyalty. Now, suddenly, the so-called “generative credits” are capped to a laughable 100, while new subscribers are left with just 25. And then you expect us to buy absurd bundles of thousands we will never need. Ethics? Never heard of it, apparently.

Honestly, GenAI has been churning out mediocre results far too often lately... and now we’re expected to pay for it? The real issue is that users never know how many tries it’ll take just to get GenAI to do what we actually asked. Charging us for inconsistent or low-quality output just leaves a bad taste in my mouth. And now they want to stack a subscription on top of another subscription? No thanks. I’m done. Not only has GenAI’s quality taken a serious nosedive, but it’s also turning into an overpriced headache to use.

What is next? 
''You used your daily 5 crops per day option. Subscribe Super-Plus plan for more crops!''

Isn't making their apps ''live service'' which is in the end MORE EXPENSIVE than buying the full app for once enough? 
Are they limit testing? 
Is there a rage or protest going on for this?
Anyone fighting for this? 

Adobe is getting more and more unstoppable corporate monarchy day by day.

Now Adobe removing tool also not working that much properly. And AI generation not working correctly now a days . Even i am using sometimes my samsung phone app to remove something. Adobe is getting corrupted 

So is Photoshop turning into a system of micro transactions I PAY for this ON A MONTHLY BASIS and they DARE operate with CREDITS??? Absolutely unacceptable! 

Hello All,

I have been asked to upgrade to newer version (currently using version 25.12.3) of photoshop or wait for the month end to use generative fill even though my account has sufficient generative credits. I still want to continue with version 25.12.3 and use generative fill without updating to latest version. Please help!!!

In addition to finding out I was out of generative credits--which came out of the blue and stopped me in the middle of working on a photo on the 16th--it looks like  Adobe is raising the monthly subscription fee for Photoshop--from $9.95 to $14.95, an increase of  50 percent. If you tack on the $9.95 needed to purchase more generative credits, it brings the total to $24.90, an increase of 150 percent all at once.  Does Netflix ever have a price increase like this? Nope. Nobody does.