I don't trust Adobe, half of their software is decent but the other half horrible The cost of Lightroom upgrades was falling yearly when the Creative Cloud thing hit, but I believe this was purely due to Apple, which was effectively dumping Aperture on the market, subsidized by the sales of Apple hardware.³ That's counting some steep discounts along the way, such as the early adopter rate I got for the first version of Lightroom, plus sale prices on all the upgrades.¹ Since I now pay $126 per year for the Lightroom + Photoshop subscription (with tax) that means I'm effectively getting what used to be called Photoshop Extended for $21 per year, which seems like a pretty good deal to me.² I just totaled up my cost for Lightroom 1.0 plus all of the upgrades, then divided by the time I've been using it, and it came out to $105 per year, inflation-adjusted. That said, the Creative Cloud Photography Program is the best way to get Lightroom, if you were going to upgrade for every major version, and you have a use for Photoshop. On the contrary, it is available on Amazon.įurther, Adobe has publicly stated that this situation "will continue."
It looks like LR is only available for $10/mo as a part of their Creative Cloud push
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