Adobe is easily the biggest name in digital creativity. While it’s best known for its flagship products such as Photoshop, InDesign, and Premier, Adobe has a whole fleet of software for creative professionals and hobbyists in the areas of photography, video and film editing, web development, animation, sound engineering and more. Interested? All of it can be accessed through Adobe’s online portal known as the Creative Cloud, via a yearly subscription payable either monthly or in one lump sum.

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The Creative Cloud Photography suite from Adobe is a world class solution for anyone who has a passion for photography. It includes arguably the best photography tools that are available today; Lightroom and Photoshop. With desktop versions of these powerhouse software tools you can organize, edit, enhance, and share images on your Mac.

The Adobe Creative Cloud Photography plan includes the all-new Adobe Photoshop Lightroom CC photo service so you can easily edit, organize, store and share your photos from anywhere, and Adobe Photoshop CC so you can transform your images into anything you can imagine. B&H Photo offers the Adobe Creative Cloud Photography Plan with 20GB Cloud Storage plus a $25 gift card for $119.88 shipped. Normally you’d pay $120 for the Creative Cloud plan by itself, so you’re getting a free $25 gift card at B&H to spend on other gear.

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Subscribing to the Creative Cloud’s entire collection of apps at $52.99 gives you plenty of tools to fuel your creative drive, and offers the best price-per-program value. But this could be overkill if you’re only looking to use one particular app, or your interest is in a single subject—say, photography.

Luckily, Adobe offers free trials of all its programs, as well as different subscription options, so you can find the programs and plan to best suit your needs.

Adobe Creative Cloud free trials

The best way to know whether a program is worth committing to is to try it out yourself, hands on. Adobe gives you seven days to test any of its Creative Cloud apps, starting on the day of download.

In addition to your chosen program/s, Adobe lets you download the Creative Cloud desktop app itself to trial. The Creative Cloud program acts as a hub for all the individual Adobe programs you try or subscribe to; as well as a hub for fonts, stock art, and other assets (a selection of which comes free with your trial), to use among various Adobe programs; it also adds a Creative Cloud folder to your system for syncing work among different devices.

While you need to create an account to trial any apps, you do not need to provide any payment information. Once the seven-day trial period ends, your download expires. You won’t lose any of the work you created or saved to your device, but the work won’t be editable without access to that Adobe program.

Creative Cloud All Apps

Adobe’s All Apps plan is the closest thing to Adobe’s Creative Suite of yore. It offers all 22 of Adobe’s creative software offerings. If you need a wide variety of creative tools at your disposal, investing the $52.99 per month, or $599.88 for the year,allows you to download and use whichever desktop and mobile apps you need.

The All Apps subscription comes with benefits such as 100GB cloud storage, which goes hand in hand with an included portfolio website for showing off your work. Adobe also gives you an extensive selection of fonts and various tools for social media. One such example is the premium version of Adobe Spark, which helps users create engaging content for all sorts of social and online platforms. Adobe offers a free version of Spark (and many of its other peripheral desktop/mobile apps), but the premium features available with the paid plan add a more professional finish to branded content, making it a useful business tool.

All Apps with Adobe Stock

Depending on how you plan to use Adobe’s full complement of creative tools, you may want to spring for the All Apps with Adobe Stock option at $82.98 per month. That extra $30 grants you access to Adobe’s library of 90 million different royalty-free photographs, vector images, illustration, videos, templates, and 3D art to use within your projects, as well as 10 standard assets per month. Adobe offers the first month of Adobe Stock free (including the 10 standard assets), so if you decide that you really don’t need it, you can cancel within that period completely risk-free.

Creative Cloud Photography Plans

Adobe recognizes the importance of its software to photographers and thus offers a few Photography Plans for that audience. Two of the plans include Photoshop CC, Lightroom CC, and Lightroom Classic CC, which together provide extensive photo editing, manipulation, and management capabilities. The difference between the two plans is in how much cloud storage is included: at the $9.99-per-month tier you get 20GB storage, while $19.99 per month comes with 1TB. (Given the later option, there’s really no reason to subscribe to Photoshop on its own, which costs slightly more at $20.99 per month, but comes with just 100GB of storage.)

The third Photography Plan is just Lightroom CC with 1TB of storage for $9.99.

Unfortunately, Adobe doesn’t offer any other discipline-specific plans outside of photography. It’s up to the user to mix and match single-app options, including any of the free mobile apps Adobe offers.

Creative Cloud Single App

Adobe offers a single-app subscription option for a number of its programs, which is perfect for those who really just need one or two creation tools. Just know that the cost per program is highest for single-app purchases.

Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, Dreamweaver, and Animate (Flash) are the most expensive single-app options, coming in at $20.99 per month. Prices vary among Adobe’s less formidable offerings, such as Adobe XD ($9.99), Acrobat Pro DC ($14.99), Spark ($9.99), and InCopy ($4.99).

All individual plans come with 100GB of cloud storage, a free portfolio website, and a selection of fonts. They are also flexible, allowing you to pay monthly or for an entire year in one swoop.

Creative Cloud student/teacher discount

If you’re on a creative path in education, you can subscribe to Adobe’s professional-level programs without having to pay the full price. Students and teachers are eligible to get the All Apps version of Creative Cloud for $19.99 a month for one year and $29.99 a month thereafter.

Naturally, this requires proof of affiliation, such as a school issued email address, ID card, report card, transcript, or even a tuition bill. Home-schooled students are eligible as well—again, pending proof. If you’re looking for an institutional discount, Adobe also offers plans forbusinesses and schools.

Creative Cloud Upgrades

All Creative Cloud subscriptions include upgrades to the apps you’ve downloaded. So you won’t end up using an old version—provided your computer is connected to the internet to check and download updates. The Creative Cloud app frequently checks for updates and you’ll receive a notification when any updates are available for the programs you’re using.

Adobe Creative Cloud: System requirements

Creative Cloud is compatible with Windows 7, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10. If you’re on a Mac you’ll need Mac OS 10.11 (El Capitan) or later. Although Creative Cloud is an online service, once the app is downloaded to your desktop, you don’t need to be connected to the internet to make use of it. However, you’ll need to be connected online during the initial installation and licensing of the apps.

Plus, desktop apps will validate the software license every 30 days, which requires being connected online. If you’re an annual member you can use the apps in offline mode for up to 99 days, whereas monthly members only get 30 days offline use.

Adobe photography plans offer the perfect solutions for editing, organizing, storing, and sharing images for anyone interested in photography—from photo enthusiasts to professionals.

The Lightroom CC plan includes Lightroom CC with 1TB of photo cloud storage. It’s the ideal option for photographers who want to access and edit their photography anywhere.

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The Creative Cloud Photography plan includes Lightroom CC with 20GB of photo cloud storage, Lightroom Classic CC, and Photoshop. It’s ideal option for photographers who want to access their photography anywhere and want the transformative power of Photoshop.

The Creative Cloud Photography plan with 1TB includes Lightroom CC with 1TB of photo cloud storage, Lightroom Classic CC, and Photoshop. It’s the ideal option for anyone who wants to take full advantage of cloud storage in addition to everything offered in the Creative Cloud Photography plan.

The Creative Cloud Photography plan includes the following apps:

• Adobe Photoshop
• Adobe Photoshop Lightroom CC on desktop, mobile, and the web
• Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic CC
• Adobe Portfolio
• Adobe Spark with premium features
• Adobe Bridge
• 20 GB cloud storage

You get all the essential tools to organize, edit, and share your photographs from anywhere—on your computer, on the web, and on your iOS or Android device. Master new skills with an extensive library of how-to videos and always have access to the latest imaging innovation from Adobe. Learn more about the Creative Cloud Photography plan.

The Creative Cloud Photography plan with 1 TB includes the following apps:

• Adobe Photoshop
• Adobe Photoshop Lightroom CC on desktop, mobile, and the web
• Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic CC
• Adobe Portfolio
• Adobe Spark with premium features
• Adobe Bridge
• 1 TB cloud storage

You get all the essential tools to organize, edit, and share your photographs from anywhere—on your computer, on the web, and on your iOS or Android device. Master new skills with an extensive library of how-to videos and always have access to the latest imaging innovation from Adobe. Learn more about the Creative Cloud Photography plan with 1 TB.

Lightroom CC is a brand-new photo service. It’s the cloud-based version of Lightroom that works across desktop, mobile, and web. The all-new Lightroom CC automatically stores full-resolution photos to the cloud when you import them from desktop, mobile, or the web. Edits are automatically reflected on all your devices.

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Lightroom CC is cloud-based photo so you can work across desktop, mobile and web. Lightroom Classic CC is the desktop-focused photography product.

Read more about the differences between Lightroom CC and Lightroom Classic here.

Lightroom Classic is the renamed version of the Lightroom app you have used in the past, and it is optimized for desktop-focused workflows, including local storage of your photos in files and folders on your computer. The interface, import and organize functionality, and the editing feature set is much the same as before. We are continuing to invest in Lightroom Classic.

You can upgrade your plan here. When you're nearing the storage limit for your current Creative Cloud Photography plan, you're also prompted within Lightroom CC to upgrade your plan and get more storage.

Your Creative Cloud desktop applications (such as Lightroom CC and Photoshop) are installed locally on your computer. You don't need an ongoing Internet connection to use them. You only need to connect to the Internet once every 99 days to validate your membership.

However, an ongoing internet connection makes your Lightroom CC experience much richer. For example, you need an internet connection to back up your images to the cloud and have them available on all your devices. You also need an internet connection to use the search feature in Lightroom CC.

Lightroom CC, included in the Creative Cloud Photography plans, safely backs up all your photos to the cloud. Lightroom CC manages your photos for you, so that your photos don’t fill up your hard drive space. This storage management allows you to keep and work with many photos, even if there’s not enough room for all those photos on your hard drive.

You can always view and work with all your photos in Lightroom CC, even if the original file is not stored on your hard drive. When you begin working with that photo, the original file is automatically downloaded from cloud storage. Lightroom CC provides you the option to always keep all your original files on the computer’s hard drive, in addition to backing them up to the cloud.

If you'd prefer to not store your images in the cloud, you can use Lightroom Classic CC.

Lightroom CC: Adobe will continue to store your original images for one year after your membership lapses. During that time, you can continue to launch Lightroom CC to download your original files from our cloud services.

Lightroom Classic CC: You'll still have access to all your photos on your local hard drive through Lightroom for the desktop. You can continue to import and organize photos as well as output your edited photos through Export, Publish, Print, Web, or Slideshow. Access to the Develop & Map modules and Lightroom for mobile are not available after your membership ends.

Yes; your photos are stored securely and safely using Adobe's cloud services infrastructure.

When you delete photos from Lightroom CC on desktop, mobile, or web, they are removed from Adobe’s services and all the synced devices. Currently, this operation is not recoverable. However, the deleted photos are still available in the synced Lightroom Classic CC catalog stored locally on your computer and aren't removed from the hard disk.

Your Creative Cloud Photography plan stays at the same price. If you want to upgrade to the Photography plan with 1 TB, you can do so through an exclusive offer. See Change your Creative Cloud plan.

Yes; you may switch to the Creative Cloud Photography plan if you want to do so.

Yes, Lightroom CC is available in Creative Cloud Team and Enterprise plans.

If you subscribed to the Creative Cloud Photography plan before October 18, 2017, refer to the frequently-asked questions below:

Your plan still includes Photoshop and the same Lightroom desktop app (now named Lightroom Classic CC), and you pay the same price: $9.99 per month. Your plan now includes an additional app—the all new Lightroom CC and 20GB of cloud storage.

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• The version of Lightroom that you have been using is now called Lightroom Classic CC to reflect its more traditional desktop-centric use case. Lightroom Classic CC has significant performance improvements and several new editing features. No features or functionality have been removed from Lightroom Classic CC.
• Photoshop is updated with several new editing features; see the New features summary.
• Additionally, your plan now includes the new Lightroom CC app across desktop, mobile, and the web along with 20GB of cloud services, so you can get a feel of the new Lightroom CC.

We are excited about the new Lightroom CC and see it as the future of photography—a complete photo service that provides anywhere access and easy editing of full resolution photos, worry-free backups and effortless organization, but also has the editing power for someone like you.

That said, some customers prefer local storage of their photos and are used to the existing Lightroom user interface. So, we wanted to keep that experience available for those who want it. We used the term “Classic” to indicate that this version is optimized for the more traditional way of working, with the desktop as the center of the experience. Lightroom Classic CC was improved on October 18, 2017 with significant performance improvements and editing features and will be updated on an ongoing basis in the future.

If you are a current Creative Cloud member who has been using Lightroom and you want to stick with what you’re used to, simply use Lightroom Classic CC. Be sure to update to the most recent version to enjoy the significant performance improvements.

Simply install it using the Creative Cloud desktop app. You can enjoy it using the 20GB of cloud storage in your plan. Lightroom CC ia also available on mobile devices and on the web. Download Lightroom CC on mobile in the Apple app store or Google Play app store. Or access Lightroom CC on the web at lightroom.adobe.com.

If you've used Lightroom in the past, you may notice that the new Lightroom CC does not yet include all of the features that have existed in Lightroom in the past. This is a version 1.0 of the new Lightroom CC; it meets the needs of many users today. If there are key features or capabilities that you’d like to see added, please give us feedback here. We're actively developing Lightroom CC on the desktop and will inform you of the new features added in each update.

Creative Cloud Photography plan has always offered the ability to edit photos from Lightroom on mobile and web. But, there are two areas of key differences in how the all-new Lightroom CC service interacts with the cloud and how Lightroom Classic CC does so.

Creative Cloud Photography plan has never included storage per se. With Lightroom Classic CC, your edits sync back to the originals on your desktop via SmartPreviews (lower resolution proxies). Only photos taken on your mobile device are at full resolution. 20 GB is more than enough to handle this syncing, and should not be looked at as storage or backup.

If you choose to use Lightroom CC as a Creative Cloud Photography member, 20 GB is enough to give you a taste of the full-cloud photo service. If you would like the full 1TB of cloud storage or more, you can upgrade to the Creative Cloud Photography plan with 1TB. Here’s how to change your Creative Cloud plan.

Creative Cloud Photography plan provides 20 GB of storage by default. If you need more storage, you can purchase a 1 TB storage plan through Adobe.com for $9.99/month. You can also purchase 2 TB, 5 TB, and 10 TB plans through your Adobe ID account (Plans & Products > Manage Plans > Switch Plan). For detailed instructions, see Change your Creative Cloud plan.

We are committed to meeting the needs of professional photographers and photography enthusiasts of all levels. Some will choose to use Lightroom CC, while others will continue to use Lightroom Classic CC. Both will be supported and updated with new features and improvements for the foreseeable future.

Creative Cloud All Apps members get access to the Lightroom CC app and can use it with the 100 GB of cloud storage included in their plan. An All Apps member can move up to the Lightroom CC service with the full 1 TB for an additional $9.99 per month.

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Lightroom CC prompts you that you'll soon fill up all of your cloud storage. To continue enjoying the benefits of backup, and the ability to view all of your photos on a mobile device, you can upgrade to a full 1 TB of cloud storage.

Once you hit your cloud storage limit, you can still import photos into Lightroom CC on the desktop, but those photos will be stored only on your local drive. They are not backed up to the cloud. They're also not available via Lightroom CC on mobile or the web. Also note that the ability to search on whatever objects are present in your photo requires that your photos are in the cloud.
Look for the icon to check which photos are backed up to the cloud. The icon indicates that the original of the photo is not backed up to the cloud.

When you've reached 100% of your cloud storage..

Lightroom CC prompts you that you've filled up all of your cloud storage. To continue enjoying the benefits of backup, and the ability to view all of your photos on a mobile device, you can upgrade to a full 1 TB of cloud storage.

After you've hit your cloud storage limit, you can still import photos into Lightroom CC on the desktop, but those photos are stored on your local drive only. They are not backed up to the cloud, nor do they become available via Lightroom CC on mobile or the web. Also note that searching based on whatever objects are present in your photo requires that your photos are in the cloud.
Look for the icon to check which photos are backed up to the cloud. The icon indicates that the original of the photo is not backed up to the cloud.

We encourage anyone who currently uses Lightroom Classic to download and try Lightroom CC in order to decide if you’d like to switch to Lightroom CC. Our recommendation is that you pick one and use it on an ongoing basis. We don't recommend using both together in the long term.

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