Those of you for whom Photoshop and Lightroom are essential to your workflow might be interested to hear about a new subscription model from Adobe. This option seems like an attempt to satisfy photographers who were upset that there was no other option cheaper than a $20/month fee to license Photoshop (or any other single Adobe product) from Creative Cloud.
This new subscription option presumes that you already own a copy of Photoshop CS3 or higher and will be available as soon as the Lightroom 5.2 update ships. It will include Lightroom, Photoshop, and 20GB of online storage for $10/month with a one-year contract.
Note also that there still is an option available to license earlier versions of Photoshop/ Lightroom via a perpetual license. This option may be more cost effective for some photographers, assuming you don’t need the new features available in the up-to-date cloud version.
More information can be found here:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2423982,00.asp
and here:
http://www.dpreview.com/news/2013/09/04/adobe-introduces-cheaper-creative-cloud-with-photoshop-and-lightroom
General information about Creative Cloud can be found here:
http://www.adobe.com/products/creativecloud.html
