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March 16, 2017
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Adobe CC full version is way too expensive. How do people manage $600 year?

Correct answer Nancy OShea

I use Adobe products in my work. So the cost is offset by the work I am able to complete for clients.

Abambo

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I will just walk in to my car dealers‘s site and say that the leasing I have is to expensive. I want to do pro bono work and for that the car costs too much.

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer

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kunald57802466

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Accepted. Even a newbie in the field of Web UI/UX designer, who cannot expect a client pretty soon, cannot even manage to give that much per year. Also, we need PS and Illustrator, but if we go with a single app purchase, it will cost $268.8, which is way high for an individual. And if I purchase PS and Illustrator together, I have to pay $580 per year. for what? We didn't ask for storage of 100GB at all.

I guess Adobe is an arrogant org, which just want money and doesn't feel ashamed of themselves for charging this high. Did you ever think what happens to the people who take it as a hobby or a freelance profession? Never.

And what their customer care says? We cannot do anything when I ask them to create a plan for us.

We should rely on the cracking community only. We cannot rely on Adobe for making the products price cheaper around 50-100USD a year.

Abambo

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kunald57802466 wrote
I guess Adobe is an arrogant org, which just want money and doesn't feel ashamed of themselves for charging this high. Did you ever think what happens to the people who take it as a hobby or a freelance profession? Never.

Just for you to remember the street prices of the different Creative Suite packages:

Estimated street price for the suites is US$2,599 for CS6 Master Collection, US$1,899 for CS6 Production Premium, US$1,899 for CS6 Design & Web Premium, and US$1,299 for CS6 Design Standard.

(Adobe Creative Suite 6 Now Available ) Master was the all-apps equivalent, Production Premium was for video, Design&Web had the non-video tools (including Acrobat Pro) and Standard was basically a 3 App product (Illustrator, Photoshop -- not the extended version -- and Indesign, Acrobat Std), if I remember well. The included programs changed over the course of the years.

Now you would argue, that you would buy the package once and use for an eternity (perpetual). But that is not working as OS upgrades create incompatibilities, so your next computer will probably have trouble running some if not all of the programs. Windows was more permissive here than MacOS.

I do not remember the exact upgrade prices, but upgrading our 4 licenses of differently flavoured software packages was around 5000$. Because it was expensive, we did an upgrade for each second version only. At that time the pressure was increasing, because our files were not anymore compatible and files received could not be opened anymore without major caveats. That where 833 $/year/seat, without the cost for the initial buy.

Now, for a better product I have to shelve out less, I'm more flexible in the license handling -- and I can install on MacOS and Windows at my choice --and I can upgrade at my pace when needed.

These products were never meant for being used for hobby, even that there are some out doing this exactly as a hobby. For me at home, I had the Photography plan giving me access to a full fledged Photoshop for 10$/month.

If you are a freelancer with only sporadic need of an own license you can buy a monthly subscription, giving you the opportunity to cancel for the end of each month. No initial buy.

And what their customer care says? We cannot do anything when I ask them to create a plan for us.

What plan do you want? Call your car dealer and ask him or her to sell you a Mercedes, but you would not need this or that standard equipment, because you would not use it. Oh, and you would love to have the package at a lesser price, because you're not using the car professionally.

We should rely on the cracking community only.

OK, because you cannot afford the Mercedes and do not want to ride a bicycle, you find a dealer for stolen cars who makes you a good price. Using illegal software is...illegal and highly risky, not only from the legal pov. It could cost much more than 10 years of CC subscription at the end of the day.

We cannot rely on Adobe for making the products price cheaper around 50-100USD a year.

Buy the Elements products series or rely on the Open Software community and try to sell your freelance services with those products. I suppose that Adobe needs to pay their people and keep the investors happy. The costs of doing business would drive Adobe out of business at your prices.

Even a newbie in the field of Web UI/UX designer, who cannot expect a client pretty soon, cannot even manage to give that much per year.

How do you pay the rent and your food if you can't expect a client soon? You should change into an employee situation! Web UI/UX designers can rely on free products and that will be highly acceptable in that environment.

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer

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kunald57802466

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Do you even know how costly it is in India? Well, you don't. You just keep on supporting Adobe for this, and they will charge.

1. Actually, I don't care what the street price is.

2. I am not using it for a hobby, but to improve my designing experience to be a web UI/UX designer.

3. And, there we go, where people compare software with cars. Seriously, you got anything else to compare?

4. Yes, we have to rely on illegal cracks, because of its being too expensive.

5. If you price that much for a year, a little will come, but more people will join the stream, and not rely on crack.

4. Most importantly, I am still a student, who for goodness sake, have not to worry about food or rent. I live with my parents right now, and it is hard to get clients for a beginner.

So stop thinking about your millionaire's brain and think about non-millionaires as well.

And first of all why you even here to justify your Adobe's pricing when you do not find any issue in paying that much.

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alaska_joey

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i agree - prices me right out of the Adobe product world. And the lesser package plans didn't have the programs I wanted: Photoshop, Premiere Pro, and After Effects. So I said Goodbye to Adobe after 10 years.

Now I use Blackmagic's FREE Da Vinci for video, and Luminar for photos -

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cs_user

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It's funny, tonight I was actually considering taking the dive and paying $50/mo for everything, but after seeing this post and the explicit realization that $50/mo adds up to $600 a year, I was like: yea..... no.

Good luck Adobe. Thanks for the heads up on Affinity though, hadn't heard about that till now.

Abambo

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Are you hobbyist or professional?

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer

sergiop76835182

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I found this new way to access adobe products extremely expensive for average person. Rich people and corporations can pay this, but teachers with low income can not afford this. Despite the discount for first year ONLY, it is very difficult. We have to pay for every application we use in the classrooms. Sorry Adobe, but I can not promote your products anymore among my students.

Abambo

Community Expert

The discount is also for subsequent years, but there is a discount on the teacher's discount for the first year.

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer

sergiop76835182

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Our school refuses to help teachers to pay for Adobe subscriptions alleging that they are too expensive. Do you think it's time to reconsider this model. Even $240 per year is expensive. We don't use all the apps, but we have to pay for them. Professionals who make money using your apps can certainly pay, but not students or teachers who are not making money from using Adobe.

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ppinto1982

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Adobe CEO refuses to answer Australian pricing questions - YouTube

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CreativeRITWIK

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Not only for you guys.. it's hard and ILLOGICAL for us students too. We don't even earn, how are we supposed to manage that. And Adobe being the industry Standard we HAVE TO LEARN it's softwares and also given the fact that I am from India here the annual plan costs ₹41000. With that money I can buy a full fledged PC here.. So at the end me and my friends are like screw it.. just crack it..

Abambo

Community Expert

There are not only people complaining in India but also in other low income regions. There is no easy way to get this correct for everyone.

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer

anastazzzja

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Pricing is ABSOLUTELY UNNACCEPTABLE for an individual designer (Im talking from an eastern Europe perspective). I have to save up 1/3 of my above average monthly salary to keep up.

Bills are higher each year without any notice nor reason. Updates add "security" malvare instead of fixing bugs and the "support" is a joke, clearly nothing more than outsourcing a random call center.

Dishonest services like this, with shady goals and even worse attitude must be the worst direction possible that Adobe could have taken. Im sad to say, as I work with these products for more than 10years now and respect and enjoy them very much, Adobe expects us to pay AND support eachother so they can sit back and enjoy the money(? - Im really asking here, what is the point besides money, is there one?). Frankly: Im not fine with that, and dickery like this is already pushing too far in a society around us, it will blow up in Your faces as well, very soon. Fu.

anastazzzja

Abambo

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You are free to use a replacement service.

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer

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americajr

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Totally agree. I have used Photoshop and Illustrator forever to help people for free and play around with fun ideas in my downtime. I committed to Photoshop CC and pay the monthly but now I need Illustrator and I cant do $600/yr for the next 6 years. It makes me want to cancel and go back to my old version because I don't have much of a choice.

I will add its great software. I love it.

Nancy OShea

Community Expert

americajr wrote
I committed to Photoshop CC and pay the monthly but now I need Illustrator and I cant do $600/yr

Get Inkscape

https://inkscape.org/en/

Nancy

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert

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liamcoded

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most people would agree Inkscape is garbage… so stop bringing it up <profanity removed>

Elvenien

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I have now moved to Affinity products. Adobe is inflexible with its pricing especially if you are a retired creative and just needs an inexpensive package. Also no replies to any requests for a cheaper deal. Goodbye Adobe.

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