Next, I show the time beyond which buying a one-time fee license is cheaper than the monthly subscription plan. Here is the price comparison of the CS6 versions against their Creative Cloud versions. On the other hand, the Creative Cloud Photography plan, which combines Lightroom CC and Photoshop CC plus 20 GB of cloud for $9.99 per month, is very competitive compared to the previous CS6 price. For instance, Lightroom CC with 10 TB comes at $99.99 per month which is exactly the same price as 10 TB of space on Google Drive. However, Adobe is proposing to extend the cloud storage in line with the price of the competition. 1 TB is not much nowadays when cameras like the high-resolution Canon 5DS or Nikon D850 fill it up in a matter of weeks or months for most professional photographers. Of course, Lightroom CC as a standalone comes with 1 TB of cloud storage but that’s irrelevant for most people. Those who only use this software and like to renew it every two or three years will clearly lose money by switching to Creative Cloud.

Basically, the Lightroom 6 price is equivalent to 15 months of the Lightroom CC subscription plan. The regular one-time fee version of Lightroom 6 costs $149 while the Creative Cloud version comes at $9.99 per month either bundled with Photoshop CC and 20 GB of cloud storage or without Photoshop CC and 1 TB of storage. Price Comparison: Blurred Lines Lightroom

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