Adobe semi-caves on cloud pricing: Introduces $10/month Photoshop + Lightroom rental deal

Adobe semi-caves on cloud pricing: Introduces $10/month Photoshop + Lightroom rental deal

After tons of totally-justified flack about trying to force all its users into a rental business model, Adobe has relented somewhat today, hoping to add enough grease to silence the squeaky wheels. Instead of the previous $20/month rental price for Photoshop Creative Cloud, Adobe has introduced a new that gives the user both Photoshop CC and Lightroom 5 for $10/month.

The offer is good until December 31st, and is only for photographers who own a copy of Photoshop CS3 or later. However, Adobe claims that this is "not an introductory price" and that the price will be honored after the initial period. I'd take that with a grain of salt, though, as just because it isn't an introductory price doesn't mean Adobe can't change it next year. Whether those of us who signed up for the "introductory price" of $10/month for Photoshop CC for existing Photoshop users will be moved over to this plan is also unclear (I have both a Creative Cloud subscription, and a Photoshp CC subscription, since I need Photoshop on more than 2 machines). At least this is progress. You can find out more from the Adobe  blog post from Photoshop World today.