Deals: Adobe's Back To School Sale Offers 63% Off Creative Cloud All Apps for Students and Teachers

[MacRumors]

Adobe has launched its back to school promotion this week, offering the Creative Cloud All Apps subscription for 63 percent off for the first year, plus your first month free for students and teachers who prepay for the full year. With this sale, you'll pay $19.99/month for the first year, down from $54.99/month for the full-priced plan.

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 $219.00/year. After your first year ends, your subscription will automatically renew at the standard rate of $359.88/year unless you change or cancel the subscription. This sale ends September 5 and is only available to first time subscribers and eligible education customers.

Adobe Creative Cloud All Apps (Education) for $19.99/month (63% OFF)​

When signing up for Creative Cloud All Apps, you gain access to more than 20 creative apps, including Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, After Effects, InDesign, and Acrobat. You also get templates, cloud storage, and thousands of Adobe Fonts.

These programs can be subscribed to individually as well for a monthly fee, but the new offer is only for Adobe Creative Cloud All Apps. Adobe is not discounting individual services. Our full Deals Roundup has more information on the latest Apple-related sales and bargains.

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[Morgenland]

Well, it's good that Affinity exists. I said goodbye to Photoshop and Adobe's pricing model a long time ago.

MacRumors is an affiliate partner with Adobe
I'm a daily enthusiastic user of the Affinity Suite

- Affinity Photo
- Affinity Designer
- Affinity Publisher

I'm aware that people who are used to working with Photoshop cannot or do not want to work in any other way. This is quite similar with PC users.

Everyone has their toys, but Adobe has an unusually lousy pricing policy that translates into fewer new customers, so now we watch their desperate attempt to retain young people. A chocolate in addition might work. For the very young and inexperienced. Good luck

 

[WilburMercer]

Adobe's pricing model is completely insane. I hope they fail as a company.

 

[Manzanito]

Well, it's good that Affinity exists. I said goodbye to Photoshop and subscriptions a long time ago. That was really old policy.

MacRumors is an affiliate partner with Adobe
I am a daily enthusiastic user of the Affinity Suite

- Affinity Designer
- Affinity Photo
- Affinity Publisher

I am aware that people who are used to working with Photoshop cannot or do not want to work in any other way. This is quite similar with PC users.

Everyone has their toys, but Adobe has an unusually lousy pricing policy that translates into fewer new customers, so now the desperate attempt to retain young people. A chocolate as an addition might work. Good luck

I also jumped ship and never looked back when they switched to subscription only, but…

It’s working great for them, so I don’t know about the desperation part.

 

[arkitect]

Adobe's pricing model is completely insane. I hope they fail as a company.

They really should take a leaf out of the book of 3D modelling software companies. Offer a free tier for students.
Once you've got them hooked in then… well then the gloves come off.

 

[Morgenland]

I also jumped ship and never looked back when they switched to subscription only, but…

It’s working great for them, so I don’t know about the desperation part.

Hardly any Affinity customers will switch to Adobe. Affinity doesn't have to beg for new customers.
Therefore in latest mid-term we will see a very unpleasant damper for Adobe!
Of course, Adobe will never announce it like that.

Adobe's market strategists are hardliners when it comes to subscriptions and disfigured the entire software landscape accordingly. Even Microsoft still distributes one-time purchase Office 2021 for Mac (albeit somewhat in the background).

 

[Morgenland]

If you are interested in Astrophotography you can compare these two clips:

(1) shows a professional procedure known from Photoshop and emulated in Affinity here.
(2) shows how extremely simplified everything can be implemented under Affinity.

This is perhaps a good example to highlight 2 different operating philosophies.

(1) PS workflow

(2) Affinity - workflow simplified (1:40...)

And now I'm finally waiting for the Adobe writers to come...

 

[t0m3k]

Adobe is racist, how come regular ppl never get any discounts like this?

 

[szw-mapple fan]

They really should take a leaf out of the book of 3D modelling software companies. Offer a free tier for students.
Once you've got them hooked in then… well then the gloves come off.

It’s possible that the edu market is a much larger portion of Adobe’s revenue compared to the 3D modeling companies. Some institutions pay for bulk student licenses and this would remove much of the incentive for them to do this.

 

[temende]

Can someone explain to me why there's such a hate for Adobe on this forum? Is it entirely due to the subscription pricing? I pay $10/mo for Lightroom and Photoshop and given how much I use those two pieces of software $10/mo doesn't feel like that much at all, at least to me.

 

[SenorWhyMe]

Well, it's good that Affinity exists. I said goodbye to Photoshop and Adobe's pricing model a long time ago.

MacRumors is an affiliate partner with Adobe
I'm a daily enthusiastic user of the Affinity Suite

- Affinity Photo
- Affinity Designer
- Affinity Publisher

I'm aware that people who are used to working with Photoshop cannot or do not want to work in any other way. This is quite similar with PC users.

Everyone has their toys, but Adobe has an unusually lousy pricing policy that translates into fewer new customers, so now we watch their desperate attempt to retain young people. A chocolate in addition might work. For the very young and inexperienced. Good luck

same except for lightroom ; affinity photo needs to improve their raw editing

 

[arkitect]

Adobe is racist, how come regular ppl never get any discounts like this?

Racist?
Adobe may be many things, but racist?

same except for lightroom ; affinity photo needs to improve their raw editing

I agree.
Not on par with Lightroom or DXO.

 

[szw-mapple fan]

Can someone explain to me why there's such a hate for Adobe on this forum? Is it entirely due to the subscription pricing? I pay $10/mo for Lightroom and Photoshop and given how much I use those two pieces of software $10/mo doesn't feel like that much at all, at least to me.

It‘s more due to the subscription model than the price, and also due to the fact that Adobe was one of the major companies to start the trend in subscription software. $10/months isn’t that much, but a lot of people feel like they’re locked in perpetually instead of being able to pay once and upgrade when they need it.

Additionally, for those of us who need a few more Adobe softwares in addition to PS, each one costs an additional $21 up to $55 for the entire suite, which is quite expensive if you only want the latest version every few years.

 

[beermode]

Adobe's pricing model is completely insane. I hope they fail as a company.

It really isn't. And they won't.

 

[temende]

It‘s more due to the subscription model than the price, and also due to the fact that Adobe was one of the major companies to start the trend in subscription software. $10/months isn’t that much, but a lot of people feel like they’re locked in perpetually instead of being able to pay once and upgrade when they need it.

Additionally, for those of us who need a few more Adobe softwares in addition to PS, each one costs an additional $21 up to $55 for the entire suite, which is quite expensive if you only want the latest version every few years.

I see. Yeah at this point I've just accepted that subscription software is here to stay lol.

 

[beermode]

It‘s more due to the subscription model than the price, and also due to the fact that Adobe was one of the major companies to start the trend in subscription software. $10/months isn’t that much, but a lot of people feel like they’re locked in perpetually instead of being able to pay once and upgrade when they need it.

Additionally, for those of us who need a few more Adobe softwares in addition to PS, each one costs an additional $21 up to $55 for the entire suite, which is quite expensive if you only want the latest version every few years.

Same people blow money on multiple streaming services. Yet you could have a suite with a ton of horsepower for about the same. I don't buy the subscription model rage.

 

[Mousse]

I also jumped ship and never looked back when they switched to subscription only, but…

It’s working great for them, so I don’t know about the desperation part.

It's great for professional artists too. They will always have the newest features and tax deductions are much, much easier. They can deduct the subscription cost every year; no more having to amortize software cost over time.😬

I ain't a pro. I hate subscription pricing. Lemme pay upfront for the program🤨 and used it until my computer falls apart. Adobe ain't getting another red cent outta me. I'm gonna use PhotoShop CS2 until my computer I can nolonger get a computer that can run older OSes.

 

[jakey rolling]

Adobe's pricing model is completely insane. I hope they fail as a company.

Keep hoping:

Adobe Reports Record Revenue in Q2 Fiscal 2022

Cash Flows from Operations Exceed $2 Billion in the Quarter Adobe (Nasdaq:ADBE) today reported financial results for its second quarter fiscal year 2022 ended June 3, 2022. “Adobe achieved record Q2 revenue with strong demand across Creative Cloud, Document Cloud and Experience Cloud,” said...

news.adobe.com

 

[satchmo]

Well, it's good that Affinity exists. I said goodbye to Photoshop and Adobe's pricing model a long time ago.

MacRumors is an affiliate partner with Adobe
I'm a daily enthusiastic user of the Affinity Suite

- Affinity Photo
- Affinity Designer
- Affinity Publisher

I'm aware that people who are used to working with Photoshop cannot or do not want to work in any other way. This is quite similar with PC users.

Everyone has their toys, but Adobe has an unusually lousy pricing policy that translates into fewer new customers, so now we watch their desperate attempt to retain young people. A chocolate in addition might work. For the very young and inexperienced. Good luck

I hear ya, but Adobe doesn't care about you or me.

They just need to retain the business of agencies and creative firms, corporations, and education.

They are deeply entrenched. It's gonna take a hell of a groundswell and uprising to change the status quo.

 

[temende]

I hear ya, but Adobe doesn't care about you or me.

They just need to retain the business of agencies and creative firms, corporations, and education.

They are deeply entrenched. It's gonna take a hell of a groundswell and uprising to change the status quo.

Yeah, the big advantage of Lightroom is it's pretty entrenched in the photography community so pretty much every tutorial/course/etc. is assuming you're using Lightroom. I tried to use Affinity Photo and a couple others but there just weren't enough resources on how to use it effectively.

 

[jakey rolling]

I hear ya, but Adobe doesn't care about you or me.
They just need to retain the business of agencies and creative firms, corporations, and education.
They are deeply entrenched. It's gonna take a hell of a groundswell and uprising to change the status quo.

I'm doubtful that such a groundswell will happen because Adobe is exclusively a subscription service now. Corporations and such seem to prefer subscription pricing models.

 

[Michael Scrip]

Can someone explain to me why there's such a hate for Adobe on this forum? Is it entirely due to the subscription pricing? I pay $10/mo for Lightroom and Photoshop and given how much I use those two pieces of software $10/mo doesn't feel like that much at all, at least to me.

It's mainly about the subscription. People hate subscription software.

But I agree with you. $10/month for PS and LR is an amazing deal.

Photoshop used to cost $700 for one version in the old days. If you ever wanted new features you had to pay $250 to upgrade to a new version in a few years.

But with the subscription... you have a very low $10 monthly price... and you get new features continually.

You'd be stuck using the same version of Photoshop for almost 6 years for the same amount of money as you'd spend on the $10/month subscription and getting new features all the time.

Of course there are people who only want to pay for software once and use it for the rest of their lives. Unfortunately Adobe won't accommodate them anymore.

Luckily... there were Photoshop alternatives back then and there are Photoshop alternatives today. There's something for everybody.

But considering there are more people using and *paying for* Photoshop today than ever before... even with the subscription... it seems that Adobe is doing something right.

Though if subscriptions aren't your thing... there are tons of great alternatives: Affinity, Capture One, DaVinci Resolve, etc.

We live in an amazing time of software!

😎

 

[973358]

Affinity Suite + Davinci Resolve save my pocket.

 

[973358]

People throw the word "Racist" around for everything, and it starts losing its meaning. They can't even differentiate between the word "Discrimination/Unfair" and "Racist".

 

[Starscape]

Adobe is racist, how come regular ppl never get any discounts like this?

I didn’t know teachers and students were a separate race. hahaha