For example, Photoshop on iPad provides Photoshop editing tools on an iPad device, such as layers for compositing work. However, the most useful benefit is having access to the cloud-based features. In particular, Camera Raw support for the latest cameras and lens profiles. Subscribing to any of the Photography plans means you’ll always have access to the latest version of each program. Or, if you are only interested in the cloud-based Photoshop Lightroom program, you can get this with Adobe Spark and Adobe Portfolio plus 1TB of storage for £9.98 per month. The pricing amounts to the same thing, where each additional terabyte of cloud storage adds a further £9.98 to your monthly subscription. All on a tablet deviceĪlternatively, you can start off with the £9.98 per month Photography plan and upgrade your storage requirements as needed. Lightroom on iPad or Android allows you to import, edit and rate images.

Where the Adobe subscription offerings differ from other products is that you are subscribing to a package of services rather than simply renting the software.

Despite all the objections, it is a business model that has proved to be popular with professional users at least.Īs for Adobe products, Photoshop and Lightroom are now available by subscription only, although you can still buy Adobe Photoshop Elements as a perpetual licence product. It is understandable that many customers should prefer to own their software outright rather than be tied to ongoing subscription payments.įor the software companies, this move has helped stabilise revenue income, fund fast response maintenance engineering work and develop new features. In the past five years we have seen a trend among software companies to move from selling perpetual licensed products to subscription-based models. What exactly do you get for your monthly Adobe Creative Cloud subscription and is it worth it? Martin Evening investigates

Adobe cloud storage pricing