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Adobe changing payment options for $10/month photography plan

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I know Adobe is often reviled, but I can't be the only one here still using it. Monthly subscribers to the $10/month photography plan need to be aware of pricing changes coming soon.

If you wish to continue paying monthly, the price will go to $15/month. However, if you pay annually, it will still be effectively $10/month but you will pay once a year at $119.88. If any of you pay monthly, you should log in to see when your next payment is and switch to to annual before then (if a lump sum payment works for you) to save $60/year.


Creative Cloud Photography (20GB) pricing changes | Common questions

Creative Cloud Photography (20GB) pricing changes | Common questions
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mollyc said:
I know Adobe is often reviled, but I can't be the only one here still using it. Monthly subscribers to the $10/month photography plan need to be aware of pricing changes coming soon.

If you wish to continue paying monthly, the price will go to $15/month. However, if you pay annually, it will still be effectively $10/month but you will pay once a year at $119.88. If any of you pay monthly, you should log in to see when your next payment is and switch to to annual before then (if a lump sum payment works for you) to save $60/year.
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Thank you - I've taken your advice and changed over to annual. Which BTW involved cancelling the current subscription and opening a new one ...

During that process, it was pointed out to me that the annual subscription price (for single annual payments) will be going up anyway next year. But I suspect it will go up by less than the monthly payment plan.
 
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mollyc said:
I know Adobe is often reviled, but I can't be the only one here still using it. Monthly subscribers to the $10/month photography plan need to be aware of pricing changes coming soon.

If you wish to continue paying monthly, the price will go to $15/month. However, if you pay annually, it will still be effectively $10/month but you will pay once a year at $119.88. If any of you pay monthly, you should log in to see when your next payment is and switch to to annual before then (if a lump sum payment works for you) to save $60/year.
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Thanks for the heads-up - did you get notified by Adobe? I haven't received any notification and my account online just shows thi Was there ever a monthly only plan? Cause I have a yearly one with monthly payments ...


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mollyc said:
I know Adobe is often reviled, but I can't be the only one here still using it. Monthly subscribers to the $10/month photography plan need to be aware of pricing changes coming soon.

If you wish to continue paying monthly, the price will go to $15/month. However, if you pay annually, it will still be effectively $10/month but you will pay once a year at $119.88. If any of you pay monthly, you should log in to see when your next payment is and switch to to annual before then (if a lump sum payment works for you) to save $60/year.
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Good to know. I’ll look into changing mine if I remember!

My biggest issue with LR is my ageing Mac mini struggles with some of the features. Hopefully an upgrade in 2025 will be possible.
 
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Thanks for the heads-up - did you get notified by Adobe? I haven't received any notification and my account online just shows thi Was there ever a monthly only plan? Cause I have a yearly one with monthly payments ...


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No, I didn't get notified by Adobe, I saw on a reddit post.

I don't think that there was ever a month-to-month plan, but I was calling the "monthly" plan the one where you pay monthly. I actually don't know when my true renewal is. I started the process of switching to an annual payment, but because I get billed on the 12th of each month, Adobe said they would credit me for the remainder of this month and start my "new" subscription immediately. So instead I set myself a reminder for next month to switch it because I don't want to deal with an annual payment in the middle of Christmas expenses. I'll just push it back to the next billing cycle.
 
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When will the Creative Cloud Photography plan (20GB) changes go into effect?​

The updated pricing will be reflected on your next renewal date on or after January 15, 2025. You’ll receive an email from Adobe about the changes approximately 30 days before your contract is up for renewal. Visit the Adobe account page to view or manage your membership details.
 
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You folks switching over to the annual plan are falling right into Adobe’s trap. That’s exactly what they want you to do, now you’re locked in for a year and Adobe has $120 to play with instead of $15.
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Look I’m no fan of subscription software. But I’m not going to move away from Adobe. Being locked in for a year verses paying monthly makes no difference. I’m committed. I have no desire to learn new software.
 
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From what I understand, my yearly plan with monthly payments is renewed on October 20 and that’s when the price increase will happen. I’ll switch to ‘real’ yearly then, I guess. NOT in December (my payment will still be €9.99 + VAT).

Thanks for the heads-up!
 
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Might be worth giving Pixelmator and Photomator a try! Pixelmator is $50 on Mac and $5 on iDevices. Photomator is $8 a month across all devices. Either way they work straight from iCloud meaning your images are no longer imprisoned in Adobe’s cloud storage either.

Personally I also keep an old Mac (last decade or so) just to use a patched install of Aperture that can share an album with modern iCloud. Just plonk your images into it from your other devices.
 
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mollyc said:
I know Adobe is often reviled, but I can't be the only one here still using it. Monthly subscribers to the $10/month photography plan need to be aware of pricing changes coming soon.

If you wish to continue paying monthly, the price will go to $15/month. However, if you pay annually, it will still be effectively $10/month but you will pay once a year at $119.88. If any of you pay monthly, you should log in to see when your next payment is and switch to to annual before then (if a lump sum payment works for you) to save $60/year.


Creative Cloud Photography (20GB) pricing changes | Common questions

Creative Cloud Photography (20GB) pricing changes | Common questions
helpx.adobe.com helpx.adobe.com
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I’m surprised they didn’t increase the annual rate from $___.88 to $___.99 lol
 
Ctrlos said:
Might be worth giving Pixelmator and Photomator a try! Pixelmator is $50 on Mac and $5 on iDevices. Photomator is $8 a month across all devices. Either way they work straight from iCloud meaning your images are no longer imprisoned in Adobe’s cloud storage either.

Personally I also keep an old Mac (last decade or so) just to use a patched install of Aperture that can share an album with modern iCloud. Just plonk your images into it from your other devices.
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+1 for Photomator! It’s a great mobile photo editing app.
With Apple buying them, I hope Apple doesn’t kill their apps and ends up working their features into stock iOS apps! There’s a whole lot I do inside Photomator that I wish was offered inside the stock photo app.
 
ellpee said:
You folks switching over to the annual plan are falling right into Adobe’s trap. That’s exactly what they want you to do, now you’re locked in for a year and Adobe has $120 to play with instead of $15.
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We are locked in to annual contracts regardless. $10/month is the same as $120/year. I'd much rather pay $120/year than $180/year by agreeing to pay $15/month!

I've been using LR since 2007 and version 1. I have absolutely no desire to learn a new workflow or port over 115k images to some other DAM software that isn't as good as LR is. I am not a fangirl of Adobe in anyway, but it suits my needs just fine and I'm okay with $10/month whether paid monthly or annually. Same price.
 
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Ctrlos said:
Might be worth giving Pixelmator and Photomator a try! Pixelmator is $50 on Mac and $5 on iDevices. Photomator is $8 a month across all devices. Either way they work straight from iCloud meaning your images are no longer imprisoned in Adobe’s cloud storage either.

Personally I also keep an old Mac (last decade or so) just to use a patched install of Aperture that can share an album with modern iCloud. Just plonk your images into it from your other devices.
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My images are all stored locally. The only images on Adobe's cloud are the twenty or so I take a year when I shoot via the LR app on my phone. This particular plan level doesn't even have that much cloud storage to start with.
 
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ellpee said:
You folks switching over to the annual plan are falling right into Adobe’s trap. That’s exactly what they want you to do, now you’re locked in for a year and Adobe has $120 to play with instead of $15.
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This subscription (along with other photo software and hardware) is baked into my pricing as a CODB. My clients pay for my Adobe subscription, and it's easier for me to pay Adobe once a year rather than 12 times.
 
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Thanks for posting about this. Several months ago I noticed that they raised the monthly price but I kept getting billed for $10/mo. I have the yearly plan with monthly payments and just renewed in June for $10.

So - if I understand this - I should wait until just before my plan renews in June 2025 before switching to yearly payment (supposedly, they will notify me 30 days in advance). That would give me 6 months for $10 (remainder of my current plan) plus 12 months for $120 when I renew. But if I renew today, I would only get 12 months for $120.

I'm assuming that the annual price will increase after a year regardless and this is just a "grandfathered" rate for one year. But maybe I'm not understanding?...
 
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I'm assuming that the annual price will increase after a year regardless and this is just a "grandfathered" rate for one year. But maybe I'm not understanding?...
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From the Adobe FAQ page I linked above, it says this:

The Creative Cloud Photography plan (20GB) will be discontinued as of January 15, 2025, and will no longer be available to new subscribers. Adobe will, however, continue to honor existing subscriptions until users decide to cancel. If you are interested in Photography, please check our alternate plans here.
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I take that to mean that the $10/month on an annualized basis plan will be around indefinitely. But once you cancel, if you want to go back, you pay at the new rate.
 
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I hope you're right! Just assuming the worst, that the price of all their plans will go up during the next year and we'll only get the grandfathered price until our current subscription ends. But we shall see. :)
 
mollyc said:
My images are all stored locally. The only images on Adobe's cloud are the twenty or so I take a year when I shoot via the LR app on my phone. This particular plan level doesn't even have that much cloud storage to start with.
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Same. Cloud storage gets expensive when you have several TB. Plus I’d hate to think about downloading that lot.
 
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mollyc said:
We are locked in to annual contracts regardless. $10/month is the same as $120/year. I'd much rather pay $120/year than $180/year by agreeing to pay $15/month!

I've been using LR since 2007 and version 1. I have absolutely no desire to learn a new workflow or port over 115k images to some other DAM software that isn't as good as LR is. I am not a fangirl of Adobe in anyway, but it suits my needs just fine and I'm okay with $10/month whether paid monthly or annually. Same price.
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Not since 2007, but a similar story here.
 
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my account/license will renew Jan 2. Since I have not gotten any notification that says otherwise, I assume the pricing will continue to be valid for he next year.
Should they really increase pricing by 50% for the year after, I might revisit my choice of DAM
 
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