

As of July 2015, Photoshop CS6 will no longer be updated to support RAW files from new cameras.

The differences from CS6 have continued to grow with the 2014, 2015, and last week’s 2015.5 upgrades. It’s been over three years since CC was originally launched. Which is not to say that $120 a year is trivial, but that it is probably a worthwhile investment if the new features are relevant to your work. In other words, that’s 25 years worth of Photoshop and Lightroom subscriptions for the price of one Nikon D800 body. Then I got on board when Adobe dramatically reduced the cost and threw in Lightroom and other goodies into the Creative Cloud Photography Program for only $9.99 a month. The answer to the cost question was “no” for many photographers, including me, at least initially. Would it ultimately cost more than the previous standalone upgrades? Where the new features in CC meaningful enough to buy? The switch from owning to renting the software created numerous questions. There were a lot of confused, concerned, and angry photographers when Creative Cloud was first announced.

It’s been three hotly contested years since Adobe launched Photoshop CC, the subscription version of Photoshop.

Here are a few highlights for photographers: Update: May 27, 2019: Since I wrote this article three years ago, Adobe has provided several updates to the photography plan (including Photoshop versions 2015.5 through 2019 and several updates to Lightroom) under the same $9.99/month pricing structure they have offered since 2013.
