PSE 2025 ugrade from 2025 to 2025 :-(

[jens_1159]

On Adobe's Danish Internet page there seems to be a flaw. When I go to the Photoshop Elements section and want to upgrade my 2025-version to 2026 I only get one option: Upgrade to PSE 2025. Not 2026.

Apx. one hour ago I wrote this to Adobe on the chat, and the representative just told me that Adobe is not selling licenses anymore - only subscriptions. After that he just left the chat. Very rude behavior!

[jane-e]

@jens_1159 

It's true that PSE is now subscription only. The current price is $99 USD for three years. 

https://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop-premiere-elements.html

In the past, Adobe has had a Black Friday sale, so you might watch to see if they do that this year.

Jane

[jens_1159]

You are completely missing my point. It's not about the semantics regarding subscription or not.

It's all about Adobe's Danish Internet page offering a PSE version upgrade from 2025 to 2025. I'm not paying for that, because I allready have it.

[Sameer K]

Hey, @jens_1159. Welcome to the Photoshop Elements Community. It may be a trivial localization issue. Could you record your screen or share a link to the page where you see this flow? 

Thanks!
Sameer K
(Type '@' and type my name to mention me when you reply)

[jane-e]

Edited after clarification from @Greg_S. 

You are completely missing my point.

By @jens_1159

Thank you for clarifying, Jens. 

I re-read your post and see that you wrote "upgrade" a couple of times. Did you purchase a license or a subscription to 2025? (You didn't say.) If it was a subscription, you still have two years left.

Now that PSE is subscription, there is no longer an upgrade path. We haven't seen your screenshot yet, but does it say anything about subscriptions?

The U.S. version does not mention upgrades, so it may be something Adobe has to fix for Denmark.
Sameer is staff and can report this to the correct channels.

Also, just for an FYI, other Adobe subscriptions include updates and new versions that are released during your subscription term. My guess is that a subscription to PSE will include 2026. I do not work for Adobe; I only know how other subscriptions work.

Jane

[jens_1159]

Hi @jane-e and @Sameer K, last october I purchased an upgrade from PSE 2024 to 2025 (3 years license).

When I try to upgrade from PSE 2025 to PSE 2026 I encountered the same problem as the two-three previous years: The new upgrade is the same year as the one I previously bought for the upgrade price. One payment for a three years license.

I live in Denmark. Country code is 'dk' or 'da'.

This year the Photoshop Elements localized for Denmark page is here:

https://www.adobe.com/dk/products/elements-family.html

On that page I go to Photoshop Elements 2026 Upgrade:

https://commerce.adobe.com/store/checkout?items%5B0%5D%5Bid%5D=77800D0AD4A3AB5AC7B7F01D372D7AE4&cli=...

The "new" version I am offered to buy is 2025 - and not 2026.

The corresponding US pages are here:

https://www.adobe.com/products/elements-family.html#

Upgrade:

https://commerce.adobe.com/store/checkout?items%5B0%5D%5Bid%5D=77800D0AD4A3AB5AC7B7F01D372D7AE4&cli=...

Now I'm offered the 2026 version.

Voila!

[Greg_S.]

@jane-e said:  Also, just for an FYI, other Adobe subscriptions include updates and new versions that are released during your subscription term. My guess is that a subscription to PSE will include 2026. I do not work for Adobe; I only know how other subscriptions work.

FYI Jane, I'm afraid your guess is wrong.  The license is not really a subscription.  It is a 3-year term license.  This may be a distinction without a difference.  But the terms of the license do not include updates to features released in later versions.  The term license may include some updates that fix bugs and possibly an update to Camera Raw.  But once a new version has been released, there will be no further updates.

I am assuming that the OP is interested in buying Elements 2026 for the discounted "upgrade" price that Adobe provides to prior version owners.  That discount should still be available.  I will leave it to @Sameer K to figure out whether the Danish website needs to be corrected in that regard.  Using the Danish links given by @jens_1159 (while signed into my Adobe account), it looks like I was offered the opportunity to purchase at the upgrade price.  However, there were some popups that seemed to be directing me to a CC subscription.

[jane-e]

Thank you for clarifying, @Greg_S.! I had heard it was a subscription and this is the first I've heard that it's a three-year license.

If users purchase a license for PSE 2026, I wonder what the upgrade price will be for them for in 2027 and 2028?

Jane

[Glenn 8675309]

Not sure what you are looking at, it's on your country  Adobe website. 

Each new version is it's own program- it leaves previous versions alone.  You are prompted about importing you catalogues from previous versions. 

What Adobe doesn't do:  Sell perpetual (forever) liscenses- with Adobe, those days are done.  A subscription means you pay monthly or yearly.   I paid for my subscription to Photoshop (pse's big brother) for one year to save a little.  If I decide in three months "I'm stopping my subscription"  I would have to pay for one half my remaining subscription- in this case I would have to pay $14.99 x 5 months- call it $75.  When you subscribe to an Adobe product you enter into an agreement with Adobe, which we all call a contract, and you have to pay a penalty to end that contract. 

[jens_1159 · Accepted solution]

Thanks for your replies of which none of them really had much focus and bearing on the described issue.

The described issue has now been solved and I was able to purchase a 2026 Upgrade (3 year license, NOT subscription) of PSE at the discounted price.