It’s worth noting that all the Adobe CC apps, including Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere Pro, and Acrobat, cost £59 (ex VAT)/$79.99/AU$116 a month. You get 20GB storage included (there’s a 1TB storage option that costs about £10/$10/AU$14 more a month).īusiness: If you are a business user you ought to sign up for the Business option where you can get a single Photoshop licence for £25.28 (ex VAT)/$33.99/AU$48.99 a month (inc GST). That bundle costs £9.98/$9.99/AU$14.29 a month, but you will be on a contract for a year. It include Photoshop CC, Lightroom CC (for web and mobile), and Lightroom Classic CC (for desktop). Photography Plan: However, the Photography Plan is actually the best deal. Photoshop: If you just want the single Photoshop app you can have that for £19.97/$20.99/AU$29.99 a month if you sign up for a year, or £30.34/$31.49/AU$45.99 a month if you just pay on a monthly basis. Whether you love or hate the subscription model, there are a few options to choose from if you want to get a copy of Photoshop: Macs won’t run old versions of Photoshop. Just be aware that Adobe doesn’t support all older versions in terms of updates, so the ones you find might not be compatible with later iterations of macOS, plus newer If you don’t care about how up to date your software is you might be interested in buying a second hand copy of Photoshop, or an old Mac with Photoshop installed. Many years ago professional Mac users might have owned a version of Adobe CS and used it for years, but the slow rate at which companies updated probably lead Adobe to switch to a subscription model. Understandably there are lots of Mac users who are disappointed that Adobe doesn’t sell a ‘perpetual license’ for the full version of Photoshop any more. If you want to take a look there’s also aħ-day free trial so you can take the software for a test run.

If you’re a creative professional though, or are used to the full-blown version of Photoshop, then you may find too many tools missing from the box. You will have access to features like masks, layers, colourisation, image manipulation and other useful, more consumer-level effects with Elements.

The benefit of Photoshop Elements is that you can buy it outright and install it on your Mac.

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