Adobe Doubles the Price of Lightgroom/Photoshop Bundle

This link reports that Adobe has raised the price of the "Photography Plan" bundle of Lightroom/Photoshop from $9.99 per month to $19.99 per month (but you do get more "free" storage).

 

Adobe's $10 Photography Plan Gone from Site: Cheapest is $20/Month

 

Here is the link to the Adobe page:

 

Creative Cloud pricing and membership plans | Adobe Creative Cloud

 

It appears Lightroom alone is available for $9.99

 

Makes me glad I purchased Lightroom 6 and took a pass on Lightroom CC.

Does anyone still ask why I am using older versions for which I own at least a license?

Yet another reason for y'all to move to Canada. It is still US$9.99/month here.

No longer being an Adobe customer is a great thing.

I was watching a podcast a few minutes ago and saw a reference to a requirement for mandatory cloud storage? I’m definitely not up to date on much of anything Adobe but it sounded like they will require storage on their cloud and there will be charges for that? Thank you but no.

 

Rick H.

I'm using Lightroom 6.14, and keep investigating the various Lightroom competitors as I go.

I have checked three times over today, and the Lightroom + PS plan is still $9.99 a month....when I check. Apparently, others have gotten the new higher price. This appears to be test marketing, with Adobe using unknown and mysterious algorithms to decide who gets the old and who gets the new price. Funny...I was thinking of finally succumbing to the subscription model, in order to keep up with the inevitable OS changes that obsolete older software. Now I'm looking at other solutions.

According to several articles I read this morning after seeing this, current subscribers still have the $10/month photography plan which has 20GB of storage and new subscribers can ask for it. They are only showing to some potential new customers the photography plan with 1TB of storage. I wonder if Lightroom CC (not LR CC Classic) is not being accepted as much as they had wanted so they are trying to push it. For me, with a slow internet connection, or for others with caps on data transfer, web storage is problematic.

I used VPN and logged into Adobe's sites in USA, Canada and Argentina. I didn't see the $20/month 1TB plan on any of the sites. The photography plan (PS, LR CC, LR CC Classic, 20GB of storage) was US$9.99 across the board.

Interesting. In NL the price has gone up from 10 euros p/m to 12 ($13). But I also saw one Adobe-NL webpage which offered only Lightroom for 12 euros and with Photoshop being offered as an additional app for an additional 12 euros p/m. Maybe Adobe are still rolling the new prices out or maybe they're simply 'testing' the new price.

Does anyone still ask why I am using older versions for which I own at least a license?

 

Yes, I use LR 3.0 and 5.0. I just need to do what I did in the wet darkroom. Maybe the later version LR can do better. But am happy with what mine do. I'm on a tight budget. Can't afford everything new coming down the pike.

 

Greed really destroys. I have an old 2011 Adobe Premier Elements 10 software package I need to scan it and put on the Internet Archive. Amazing what they used to give you. Now software is just a download.

Does anyone still ask why I am using older versions for which I own at least a license?

JDMvW, hang on as long as you can; but, sometimes you may not have a choice.

For instance, if you were running your software on an older Mac and it died and had to get a new one resulting in you having to have the newest operating system, the older software may not work. Apple is good at making what we know and love obsolete. They claim it is for security and efficiency....... Just try running anything like a scanner that uses TWAIN. The printer manufacturers love this too because they don't bother to make drivers for newer operating systems for their older printers.

Yet another reason for y'all to move to Canada. It is still US$9.99/month here.

Here too, if you buy from the right vendor. This found yesterday:

 

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sometimes you may not have a choice.

Yes. For Mac users, the newer OSs will break the old programs.

It is sign of what is coming coming soon, I think Adobe reached market saturation point, there is only limited amount of subscribers out there. Their share prices had amazing run up, since they switched to subscriber only mod. If no new subscribers will be joining the club, they will have to jack up prices or cut costs or do both, to continue grow profits.

Execs bonuses tied to the share price:)

Perhaps they need to take a lesson from Netflix, Amazon Prime, and your friendly neighborhood cable provider; if you raise prices slowly, people may not notice or object enough to drop your service. Sort of like a lobster being slowly boiled to death. An immediate doubling of the price will send shockwaves (if it sticks), and cause many casual (non professional) users to seek out alternatives. I can't justify $20 a month for my uses but I also do not relish the obligatory learning curve of a new application.

The $9.99/20GB plan has been added back: https://www.adobe.com/creativecloud/plans.html?promoid=NV3KR7S1&mv=other

Perhaps they need to take a lesson from Netflix, Amazon Prime, and your friendly neighborhood cable provider; if you raise prices slowly, people may not notice or object enough to drop your service. Sort of like a lobster being slowly boiled to death. An immediate doubling of the price will send shockwaves (if it sticks), and cause many casual (non professional) users to seek out alternatives. I can't justify $20 a month for my uses but I also do not relish the obligatory learning curve of a new application.

I think it is a method to encourage more use of their cloud storage. Somewhere in their business planning, cloud storage was seen as a golden goose egg. It will be interesting to see how this plays out. Cloud storage for a lot of us is a no-go. The first hint was when they made Lightroom CC cloud-based and renamed the good version to Lightroom CC Classic. I hope their experiment fails because I have no intention of storing everything in the cloud given my internet service.

Maybe they got this idea at the time that flickr decided to charge for the number of photos stored.

Edited May 3, 2019 by PuntaColorada

Interesting. In my area, the Boston area, the Adobe Creative Cloud plans page still has the photography plan at $9.99. However, I must say that the combination of the higher price popping up elsewhere and renaming their products so that "lightroom" refers to lightroom in the cloud makes me nervous. I am uninterested in working on a cloud-based software package, have exactly zero interest in their online storage, and would be pissed off by a doubling of the price. I have a huge amount of time invested in the LR/PS system, and it would be a huge pain to switch to something else, but $240/year might push me to start looking at alternatives.

I used Photoshop (this was pre-Lightroom) while my workplace was paying for it. Though I was irked that the price, even with a site license, kept increasing. Once I left that job, I switched to GIMP. I run it on linux machines but there is a Windows version, too. I'm not a power user, but all of my printing these days (and a fair bit of my photography) is digital, and GIMP does everything I need to do. Plus, it's free. So is linux--and I keep one windows machine in case I need it but I've got five linux machines and never touch the windows one any more.

I was just about to switch from Nikon software to Adobe Camera raw, Photoshop and Bridge when I read about Adobe's pricing. This can happen once they hook you on a subscription package and I want to avoid such traps if possible.

 

I was also looking at ON1 now that they have added dual monitor support and DXO PhotoLabs as I like control points or U points. And then I have Capture One Pro too as an option if I need that much horsepower.

I was just about to switch from Nikon software to Adobe Camera raw, Photoshop and Bridge when I read about Adobe's pricing. This can happen once they hook you on a subscription package and I want to avoid such traps if possible.

 

I was also looking at ON1 now that they have added dual monitor support and DXO PhotoLabs as I like control points or U points. And then I have Capture One Pro too as an option if I need that much horsepower.

I have On1 Photo Raw. They have promised dual monitor support but have not delivered.

Version 2019.5 of Photo raw is to have dual monitor support:

 

ON1 Photo RAW 2019.5 update brings dual screen display and more

I was just about to switch from Nikon software to Adobe Camera raw, Photoshop and Bridge when I read about Adobe's pricing. This can happen once they hook you on a subscription package and I want to avoid such traps if possible.

I have the Photoshop/Lightroom combo and have been paying $10 a month for the last 3 years for it with no price increase. It meets my needs, doesn't seem pricy and I don't feel hooked or taken advantage of.

For some years now I have used mainly Lightroom. Photoshop with my film scans. I am starting back and learning more Photoshop again, the articles online tend to require Photoshop CC because some of the tools are not available with pre-CC. The brush strokes and the masking also tend to work better. I tried the same learinng technique on both versions ie Photoshop CC trial. But pre Photoshop CC is quite dated ie Lightroom 4 or pre 2013 days.

Yet another example demonstrating that subscription means you have little control. Company can and will raise price for continued access.

 

Buy it once own it forever.

 

Sorry for snark, but 2 page thread dancing around the emperor’s new clothes....?