So it looks like all new Adobe products will only be available through their cloud. Hmph.

[progressoid]

Say Goodbye to Creative Suite: Adobe CS Is Now Creative Cloud

At Adobe’s annual MAX conference today, the company announced a major overhaul of the ten-year-old Creative Suite, which will now be known as Creative Cloud. From now on, you won’t buy CS6 or CS7—you’ll buy a $50 per month subscription to CC (happily, the first year will only cost $30 for anyone with a CS3 or later serial number).

What’s the reasoning behind the overhaul? For one thing, an online subscription service could help Adobe curb piracy. For another, it’ll make it easier for customers to opt-in to new product releases throughout the year, rather than dropping a single giant update annually. But more generally, the shift shows Adobe focusing on the way the cloud is integrated with its products. Rather than logging into Creative Cloud to download updates, a newly redesigned app will push CC notifications directly to your desktop—making it easier to update your programs and download new apps.

http://gizmodo.com/say-goodbye-to-creative-suite-adobe-rebrands-cs-as-cre-493155052

For photoshop users...a Creative Cloud single-app membership is available at a special introductory price of $9.99 per month (with an annual commitment) for our loyal customers who currently own Photoshop CS3, CS4, CS5 or CS6. Offer available until July 31st, 2013

via: Answering Your Questions About Photoshop CC
http://blogs.adobe.com/photoshopdotcom/2013/05/answering-your-questions-about-photoshop-cc.html#JustPhotoshopAndLightroom

Photoshop CC: Adobe responds to reaction
http://www.dpreview.com/news/2013/05/08/Adobe-photoshop-cc

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ETA: Your current software will work forever, you just won't get to upgrade without a cloud subscription.

[truedelphi]

1. I feel your pain.

As someone who got locked out of my YouTube account for about 18 months, when YouTube was acquired by Google, and Google decided the old user id codes might or might not work, depending on how your user id was configured, the idea that I can be locked into needing constant approval in order to keep my computer working properly seems undesirable to say the least.

I could afford to not have access to my favorite YouTube play list for that time. But I can't afford to be dependent on some major corporation's whim as to whether or not I access my daily life!

[BlueJazz]

2. Boy oh Boy !...what a great deal: $50 per month subscription.

Gosh, that's only $600.00 a year.

Be still my foolish heart.

[RichGirl]

3. If Adobe goes to subscription of $30 or $50 per month...

We really need to take a stand and boycott. I'm sick to death of cable and internet pushing us into a corner and squeezing every last penny out of us!! Many people can't afford this. Many people use You Tube to make videos that benefit them. Either one needs to take a stand. If someone who is basically wealthy and makes videos and encourages anyone to subscribe...they are part of the problem.

We need to give up our cable/internet addictions....and say ENOUGH!

Rent "A Bugs Life" while Redbox is still only $1.29. If ants can do it...so can we. Hint...we are the ants.

[hunter]

4. Adobe no longer exists on Hunter's island.

The weather is quite nice here.