Adobe Launches Creative Cloud for Subscription Access
Using Adobe's line of professional creative tools no longer means paying a hefty fee upfront. Today, Adobe is launching Creative Cloud, a subscription cloud-based offering for Creative Suite 6 applications.
The service costs $49.99 per month with a one-year commitment, or $74.99 with a month-to-month membership. Existing CS3, CS4, CS4, and CS5.5 users can try Creative Cloud for an introductory price of $29.99 per month. Members download the applications they want to their desktops, so they don't actually use the tools in the cloud. They'll need to touch base with the online service once every 30 days to verify membership. The applications will notify users when it's time to go online.
Besides the applications, Creative Cloud offers subscribers 20GB of online storage for collaborating or exchanging files between computers. Memberships are available for Windows and Macintosh computers. Members will also get access to two HTML5 tools: Adobe Muse and Adobe Edge Preview. Muse lets designers create HTML5 sites without writing code, while Edge Preview creates HTML5 animations. Creative Cloud will integrate with Adobe's existing tablet applications.
Photo by Tim Siglin
Related Articles
Slated for mid-October, the update will add over 150 features and abilities to Premiere Pro, After Effects, Anywhere, and more.
09 Sep 2013
Adobe officially changes all the Creative Suite products to Creative Cloud. While that might make logical sense, the shift could create problems for end users and, ultimately, for Adobe, too.
07 May 2013
Premiere Pro, After Effects, and more are getting an upgrade; Adobe shows new features just in time for the NAB conference.
04 Apr 2013
By offering subscription pricing Adobe has found a path to higher revenue, but Creative Cloud is in dramatic need of a course correction.
11 May 2012
Adobe's transition from perpetual license to monthly subscriptions for its Creative Suite offerings presents delivery and pricing challenges. Will it be smooth sailing or rough seas ahead?
09 May 2012
Adobe is offering automated actions on files stored in its Creative Cloud, including preview rendering, layer manipulation, and metadata generation
24 Apr 2012
In its first online video advertising report, Adobe shows advertisers where to spend their money.
17 Apr 2012
Parallel encoding in Adobe Media Encoder and unlimited multicam highlight the enhancements in Adobe's latest version of Premiere Pro.
12 Apr 2012
By adding advertising to its lineup, Adobe hopes to create a full-service workflow for publishers.
01 Nov 2011