We have liftoff! As promised on Monday with the news that Creative Suite 6 was shipping, Adobe has taken the wraps off Creative Cloud, its $49.99 per month subscription service which includes all CS6 products along with a host of others.
Adobe Systems Inc. announced the immediate availability of Adobe Creative Cloud on Friday, the beginning of a new era in the company’s long history which provides a radical new way of providing tools and services for its customers.
“A subscription-based offering, Adobe Creative Cloud is a hub for making, sharing and delivering creative work and it is centered around a powerful release of Adobe Creative Suite 6 software, packed with innovation across its industry-defining design, Web, video and digital imaging tools,” the company explains in a press release.
Adobe Creative Cloud features the entire Creative Suite 6 product line for Mac and Windows, which includes the latest versions of Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, Flash Professional and more -- all available for a monthly $49.99 subscription, based on annual membership.
When purchased separately, Creative Cloud also introduces Touch Apps into the mix for both iOS and Android, today adding Adobe Proto and Adobe Collage, as well as new features and additional language support for the existing Photoshop Touch and Adobe Ideas apps. Creative Cloud members on an annual plan will receive a complimentary month of membership upon signing into Creative Cloud from three qualifying Touch Apps. The service tops off these great tools with 20GB of free cloud storage.
“Adobe Creative Cloud members receive full access to the entire portfolio of Creative Suite 6 tools, integration with our touch tools, file storage and sharing services and Web hosting -- everything they need to go from idea to finished work, at a breakthrough monthly subscription price,“ said David Wadhwani, senior vice president, Digital Media Business, Adobe. “Creative Cloud will allow our product teams to unleash a constant stream of innovation, releasing new features, apps and services as they are developed.”
Also available today is Adobe Muse 1.0, the company’s new software that enables designers to create HTML5-based websites without writing code. The software just exited a successful beta period which saw 700,000 downloads from developers who gave it a spin, and best of all, Muse is included with Adobe Creative Cloud.
Adobe Creative Cloud is now available for $49.99 per month with an annual subscription, and for a limited time, CS3, CS4, CS5 and CS5.5 customers can receive special introductory pricing of $29.99 per month for the first 12 months. Month-to-month plans are also available for $74.99 per month for occasional use.
(Updated to clarify that Touch Apps must be purchased separately from the App Store and are not included free with Creative Cloud.)
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