The Adobe transition to a subscription-based business model has been successful by many measures, but it doesn’t meet every customer’s needs. If you want Adobe software but you don’t want to pay a regular subscription fee, do you still have options? Depending on what you need, the answer is “maybe”and as of 2017, the non-subscription options are fewer than ever. Just to get some terms out of the way, the conventional way to pay for software is called a perpetual license, because you buy the license once and it doesn’t expire. With Adobe Creative Cloud you maintain your license to use Adobe software and services by paying a subscription fee every year or every month, as you might with Netflix or Spotify. Update: CS6 no longer available as of January 9, 2017 As of January 9, 2017, Creative Suite (CS6 or earlier) perpetual license applications such as Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Premiere Pro, and Adobe After Effects are no longer available for sale from Adobe (see below). They are now only available as part of a paid Creative Cloud subscription.  Many Creative Cloud applications have a Single App subscription option in case you don’t want to pay for them all.

If you read an earlier version of this article that talked about how to buy CS6 without a subscription, I’ve now had to bring this article up to date to account for Adobe taking CS6 completely off the market. After the launch of Creative Cloud in 2012, Adobe originally stated that CS6 applications would remain on sale “indefinitely.” Through most of 2015 Adobe provided a web link where you could still pay once to buy a perpetual license of CS6 applications.

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But in late 2015, Adobe redirected the link to a web page, shown below, where ordering by phone was the only option. The web page after January 9, 2017 Note the text that the arrow points to, which says: As of January 9, 2017 Creative Suite is no longer available for purchase. There may be copies of Creative Suite software available for sale through the used market, but if you are interested in buying it that way you should exercise extreme caution to avoid scams and pirated copies. If you’re buying software that has been previously opened and installed, it’s a good idea to make sure the seller is willing to do an to ensure that you become the new legal owner of the software.

Also, CS6 applications were released in 2012, so they were not written for the latest operating systems and hardware. They are no longer being updated, so if there is a problem running a CS6 application on recent systems, a fix may not be available. Photoshop The king of Adobe software is, of course, Adobe Photoshop. Now that Adobe no longer sells CS6 applications, the only professional version available from Adobe is Photoshop CC, which you get through a paid Creative Cloud membership.

The most affordable membership is the $9.99 Photography Plan which includes Photoshop, Lightroom CC, and Lightroom Classic as well as a range of online services, including Lightroom cloud storage and syncing across devices as well as an website. If you use Photoshop for business reasons this is probably going to be one of the smallest business expenses you have. The relatively low cost of the Photography Plan means that most of the people who don’t want to subscribe to Creative Cloud are opposed to it for reasons that aren’t economic. The only non-subscription version of Photoshop currently for sale is Photoshop Elements, or you can use a non-Adobe Photoshop alternative. See below for more information about those options. Lightroom Update: On October 18, 2017, Adobe announced the under; it was also announced that Lightroom 6 is the last version available through a perpetual license. For now, Lightroom 6 remains available for purchase through the online retailers listed below, but when stocks run out, only the subscription versions will be available. Adobe sells a subscription version and a perpetual license version of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom: • Lightroom CC and Lightroom Classic CC are available as part of an Adobe Creative Cloud subscription, including the inexpensive Photography Plan.