

They work less so for professional grade apps that peddle the same features year after year, with nothing more than a few tweaks here and there. Subscriptions work for services like Netflix, Amazon Prime, and those little monthly boxes all of which promise something new and exciting. Suddenly you are paying $600 a year, in perpetuity, to stay under the Adobe umbrella.

If you want to use the “ world’s best creative apps” to edit video, mix sound, or produce special effects you either have to pay $20 for each individual application or pay $50 a month for access to the entire suite.

When you first visit Adobe’s main page the words that are greeting you make believe that with the “ world’s best creative apps” you can make anything regardless of your discipline, as long as you make it with Creative Cloud.
