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Adobe Takes 40% Off Creative Cloud Pro for Your First Year

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Adobe this week is offering first-time subscribers of the Adobe Creative Cloud Pro plan a 40 percent discount on the service. With this sale, you'll pay $41.99 per month for the plan, down from $69.99 per month, and this price will last through your first year.

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You can also choose to pay for the entire year upfront at the price of $467.93 per year, down from $779.88 per year. After your first year ends, your subscription will automatically renew at the standard rate unless you change or cancel the subscription. This sale ends August 17.



When signing up for Creative Cloud Pro, you gain access to more than 20 creative apps, including Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, Acrobat Pro, plus Adobe Firefly creative AI for images, video, and audio. You also get templates, cloud storage, and thousands of Adobe Fonts.

Adobe is also offering 40 percent off your first six months of Creative Cloud Pro for teams, priced at $59.99 per month, down from $99.99 per month. Finally, students and teachers can get Creative Cloud Pro for $29.99 per month for their first year, down from $69.99 per month.

Adobe's Creative Cloud Pro plan is basically the same as the previous "Creative Cloud All Apps" plan, with the addition of AI features. This includes unlimited access to AI image features and 4,000 monthly generative credits for premium AI video and audio features.

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So now existing customers don't just get ****ed over with offers for new users on Black Friday, but also in summer. Awesome.

Really feeling the love, Adobe. (And yes, stark93, still paying. Because Affinity products don't hold a candle to Photoshop/Indesign and Illustrator, plus we're still kind of beholden to Adobe Fonts for a lot of work.)
 
I doubt I would pay for Adobe CC if it was out of my pocket instead of through my institution. DaVinci Resolve would be my go-to video editing app. The free version is ok and the full licensed version is only $295 and perpetual.
 
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chesel, What industry?

Web's all in on Figma and I'm seeing it more outside of there but otherwise your statement sounds wild.
 
I don't want to like them but so far I have not found a better alternative, for me. They support my Nikon high efficiency raw format and I like the output and organization. I know there are others out there, I have tried a few but so far I am still preferring Lightroom. If Apple would support the HE format, I might do more with my Photomator software but so far I mostly use it for photos taken with my iPhone.
 
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Why so little interest in Blocs by Mac users for web? But I get it, Figma did to people what iWeb started, clean and simple drag and drop.

as for Adobe. How many softwares were launched and then cancelled by Adobe - that’s where it started to stink for me. As for the rest, I can’t wait what Pixelmator and Photomator will become within Apple. Aperture Pro II? Affinity now with Canva … I have my doubts. Lightroom is stil go to catalog/edit for photos for me. Adobes Photo plan in Europe is like 78Eur per year. ( Photoshop + Lightroom) but likely to be cancelled at the end of its cycle by me. Damn I can even concept generate pictures within ChatGPT
 
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stark93 said:
Do people actually still pay for Adobe products? 💀
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I am sure plenty of "professional" people whose income from their work vastly outweighs the annual subscription price they pay.

For "casual" users? I expect that market is significantly smaller than when it was a one-time purchase.

I'm a casual user and I tried it for two years under one of these deals (when my initial year expired, they extended it for another year and probably would have continued to do so, but I just did not use it enough to justify the price and went with Affinity).
 
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MacRumors said:


Adobe this week is offering first-time subscribers of the Adobe Creative Cloud Pro plan a 40 percent discount on the service. With this sale, you'll pay $41.99 per month for the plan, down from $69.99 per month, and this price will last through your first year.

adobecreativecloud.jpg
Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner with Adobe. When you click a link and make a purchase, we may receive a small payment, which helps us keep the site running.

You can also choose to pay for the entire year upfront at the price of $467.93 per year, down from $779.88 per year. After your first year ends, your subscription will automatically renew at the standard rate unless you change or cancel the subscription. This sale ends August 17.



When signing up for Creative Cloud Pro, you gain access to more than 20 creative apps, including Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, Acrobat Pro, plus Adobe Firefly creative AI for images, video, and audio. You also get templates, cloud storage, and thousands of Adobe Fonts.

Adobe is also offering 40 percent off your first six months of Creative Cloud Pro for teams, priced at $59.99 per month, down from $99.99 per month. Finally, students and teachers can get Creative Cloud Pro for $29.99 per month for their first year, down from $69.99 per month.

Adobe's Creative Cloud Pro plan is basically the same as the previous "Creative Cloud All Apps" plan, with the addition of AI features. This includes unlimited access to AI image features and 4,000 monthly generative credits for premium AI video and audio features.

If you're on the hunt for more discounts, be sure to visit our Apple Deals roundup where we recap the best Apple-related bargains of the past week.



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Adobe is one of the worst, greediest and shameful companies out there. Never going to pay for any of their software.
 
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stark93 said:
Do people actually still pay for Adobe products? 💀
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Obviously yes. If you work in an industry where you need to use them for paid work, you have to pay for Creative Cloud (or work for someone who does).

If you're an amateur, etc, there are other non-rental tools that you can probably make work. (No shade to amateurs either -- the term literally means someone who does something they love.)

But if you're working for a client who expects a deliverable as an Illustrator file or a Premiere project or an InDesign package, then no, you can't hand them some random ass Affinity file or whatever and expect to get paid. As a practical matter many freelancers just have to absorb and write off the $800/year as a business expense. Because none of these file formats are open in any way, you're locked in. Not great, but this is the reality in 2025.
 
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Of course it's for new users only, because companies no longer have any interest in rewarding loyalty anymore.
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I have heard anecdotally in these forums that if you're an existing user and you start the cancellation process they will throw out some pretty hefty retention offers to keep you on.

Doesn't absolve them of being horrible, but I think there are ways to save some money at least.

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I have old projects held hostage in the Adobe ecosystem. it's a hard pill to swallow needing to renew subscription just to get them out. if possible...
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If they're important, you might want to cough up enough for a month and export everything out. Or borrow an activation from a friend and buy them a drink or something.
 
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ignatius345 said:
I have heard anecdotally in these forums that if you're an existing user and you start the cancellation process they will throw out some pretty hefty retention offers to keep you on.

Doesn't absolve them of being horrible, but I think there are ways to save some money at least.
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I keep wanting to jump ship, but Pixelmator doesn't feel like it's quite there yet for me. I'm faster in Photoshop in spite of how maddening I have found a lot of the changes they've made to it over the years.
 
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I keep wanting to jump ship, but Pixelmator doesn't feel like it's quite there yet for me. I'm faster in Photoshop in spite of how maddening I have found a lot of the changes they've made to it over the years.
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What, you don't love the constant pop ups reminding you you can use whatever bull**** generative AI feature? :)

I *really* hope someone eats Adobe's lunch the way they did to QuarkXPress back in the day, but I don't see it happening anytime soon unfortunately.
 
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