[gregbradley]

Adobe has now placed all future updates of Photoshop on a monthly subscription basis at their Creative Cloud site.

I usually use Photoshop CS2 and I also have CS4 (which won't run on the same computer as CS2 but I don't want to delete CS2 in case its something else!.

I have been trialling Photoshop CC for the last month. Its a very nice program. I was particularly impressed with CS6 when I trialled it, it seemed to be very sophisticated yet familar and did everything I needed.

CC is hardly any different but there is a neat sharpening tool that handles camera shake. It analyses the image and proposes a sharpening which you can smooth if it starts graining up your image. It tends to reduce the effects of seeing somewhat and is very nice sharpening tool - one of the best I have seen.

I think I will subscribe to this CC software. I don't know how often Adobe will update it with new tools but you get them as soon as they do. So you use the current version at all times. Kind of nice.

The cost of an upgrade from CS2 or CS4 to CS6 is quite a bit so $20/month would take 2 years or more to run out. By then they would have released a CS7 if they kept on with how they were doing things. So economically its not such a bad deal. Its just the monthly committment is not easy to agree to.

Greg.