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A single product upgrade can be costly, too: moving from Photoshop CS4 to Photoshop CS5 Extended would set you back $350. And that would have been a pricey proposition: Upgrading from Creative Suite 3.x Design Premium, for example, to Creative Suite 5.5 Design Premium, costs $950. Thus, anyone running Adobe CS3 or CS4 would have had to upgrade to the current version, Adobe CS5 or CS5.5 first, and then pay an upgrade fee yet again when the new CS6 arrived. Adobe offered a 20 percent discount until the end of the year for users to upgrade to the current version. Instead, the company instituted a new policy that supported discounted upgrades only for the previous main version-in this case CS5 or CS5.5. In a November 2011 blog post, Adobe revealed that it had abandoned its traditional upgrade policy, which had supported discounted software upgrades for owners of up to three previous versions. This upgrade pricing offer marks a significant policy reversal for Adobe.

Adobe Creative Cloud would give members access to all of the CS6 desktop software, automatic updates, and a range of additional services and community features. CS6 will be a major new release of Adobe’s creative desktop programs, with expected upgrades across the board to more than a dozen applications. Under the new plan, CS3 and CS4 owners will have until Decemto take advantage of the offer.Īccording to Adobe, Creative Suite 6 will be released in the first half of 2012. In a post on the company’s website, Adobe announced “special introductory upgrade pricing” for CS3 and CS4 owners who upgrade to Adobe Creative Suite 6 software or to the subscription-based Adobe Creative Cloud.

There’s some potentially good news on the horizon for creative professionals who’ve clung to the CS3 and CS4 versions of Adobe’s suite of photo-editing, illustration, and design applications, but who might want to upgrade to the company’s forthcoming Creative Suite 6 (CS6) or subscribe to its new Creative Cloud.