The ease with which you can end your Photoshop contract is one of the benefits of Adobe’s decision to switch from selling copies of Photoshop outright to a subscription model. It’s worth noting that all the Adobe CC apps, including Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere Pro, and Acrobat, cost $84.99/£61.99 (ex VAT) per licence a month. Sign up on Adobe’s website.īusiness: If you are a business user you ought to sign up for the Business option where you can get a single Photoshop licence for $35.99/£26.49 ex VAT a month per licence. You get 20GB storage included (there’s a 1TB storage option that costs about $10/£10 more a month).

That bundle costs $9.99/£9.98 a month, but you will be on a contract for a year. It include Photoshop CC, Lightroom CC (for web and mobile), and Lightroom Classic CC (for desktop). Photography Plan: However, the Photography Plan is actually the best deal. Photoshop: If you just want the single Photoshop app you can have that for $20.99/£19.97 a month if you sign up for a year, or $31.49/£30.34 a month if you just pay on a monthly basis. It’s worth considering if you have your choice of software and want to save money.įollow on Twitter for the latest tech deals and buying advice.Whether you love or hate the subscription model, there are a few options to choose from if you want to get a copy of Photoshop: And it’s still true that Serif’s apps are optimized for M1 Macs where Adobe is still fleshing out support. You can buy an app once knowing you’ll always have access to it for your next project. Hopefully, the world will have improved to the point where sales like this aren’t as important.Īs before, there’s a simple allure: the Affinity suite offers much of the functionality of equivalent Adobe creative apps (Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign) without the need for a costly ongoing subscription. The studio had discounted its apps by ‘just’ 30 percent for Black Friday, so there’s no guarantee you’ll get this large of a bargain in the future. If you’re unsure, you can try any of the apps for free in a 90-day trial - even if you used a trial last year.

The company is once again offering 50 percent discounts on Affinity Designer, Photo and Publisher whether you buy them for a computer ($35 each) or iPad ($14 each). Serif ran a sale on its apps to help creatives at the start of the pandemic, and it’s bringing back those deals at a particularly difficult moment.

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