“We’re very excited about the upcoming release of Adobe Creative Suite 6 software and Adobe Creative Cloud,” Adobe announced today via the company’s website. “CS6 will be a major new release of our creative desktop tools, with huge improvements for every type of creative professional. Adobe Creative Cloud will be our most comprehensive creative solution ever, giving members access to all of the CS6 desktop software plus additional services, new tools, Adobe Touch Apps, and rich community features. In addition, Creative Cloud members will receive continuous upgrades and updates to all products and services as part of their membership.”
Adobe states, “With these great new releases coming in the first half of 2012, we want to make sure our customers have plenty of time to determine which offering is best for them. Therefore, we’re pleased to announce that we will offer special introductory upgrade pricing on Creative Suite 6 to customers who own CS3 or CS4. This offer will be available from the time CS6 is released until December 31, 2012. More details on this offer, as well as any introductory offers for existing customers to move to Creative Cloud membership, will be announced when CS6 and Creative Cloud are released later this year.”
Details about Adobe’s Creative Suite upgrade policy here.
Source: Adobe Systems Incorporated
Nah – you’re alright thanks. I’ll just get a copy off the net.
And to hell with any of you suckers you recently purchased 5 or 5.5!
Adobe, you can go screw yourself. Stop screwing your customers.
5 and 5.5 owners already were getting a discount but previously they said no upgrade pricing for anything older – Glad they came to their senses.
Aye, but when they said no upgrade pricing for anything older, many CS3 and CS4 users purchased CS5.5. Now Adobe’s saying they didn’t actually have to.
MDN – what, no plug for Pixelmator?
No thanks. There will be better alternatives.
Where bonehead?
Another $500+ upgrade while bent over and getting reamed for modest improvements? No thanks. I’ve never understood either why companies like Adobe can’t differentiate between a professional user who actually makes money off their software and those who want it just for private consumer or hobby use. I do think the world is tiring of upgrades and their frequent issue on need of the bottom line, more than any user advantage.
“I’ve never understood either why companies like Adobe can’t differentiate between a professional user who actually makes money off their software and those who want it just for private consumer or hobby use.”
It’s called Photoshop Elements.
But there’s no InDesign Light or Illustrator Light.
Correct. Good point.
If your livelihood is making images, then you use Photoshop. It’s still cheaper than a new high spec lens and does so much more. If you buy every 2nd iteration it’s still damned cheap. In the past year I have spent over $4k updating some camera gear. $500 on calibration kit for my my screen and $3500 printer.
Last week $600 on 2 inks for my printer (it holds 12) and 2 rolls of 17″ high quality inkjet paper.
My old Manfrotto tripod needs an upgrade, $550. Oh, and I got myself Mac Mini Server to keep all my stuff and other machines with scanners all sorted. This year it’s $5000 for 2 weeks in Italy to shoot library shots. Now I’m semi retired these days. Back in my professional darkroom days of 20 years ago I got through on average of $200 worth of Agfa, Kodak and Ilford B&W paper a day. I used to run the B&w print department for London’s first 24hr pro photo lab. The lab had an annual turnover of £4,000,000 a year. That was just processing and printing photos for pro London photographers. If you make photographs the cost is always there.
The cost of Photoshop is negligible in the light of all that.
If you don’t make a living out of images, download a dodgy copy from The Pirate Bay and use that. Mine needs to be legal.
Stop bitching. You are all the same as all those people that bitch about Apple Fanboys. It’s whiny and shrill and it’s obvious you probably know zip about photography.
Good points all – though Photoshop is NOT just for Photographers. Not by a long shot. I am a web designer by profession and used to print design, starting in the late 1980s. I have been using Photoshop since version 1 way back in 1991. I now do about 80% of my graphics work in Photoshop, about 5% in Illustrator and about 15% in After Affects. I really use nothing else in Creative Suite, but I usually do my own photography when I can’t find the right stock images.