Adobe: Lightroom subscription becomes more expensive
Adobe's photo subscription for Lightroom and Photoshop will get more expensive in January. Current customers still pay the old prices. Not all versions affected.
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For years, the prices for Adobe's photo subscription remained unchanged. As a small version of the Creative Cloud subscription, it bundles the raw developer Lightroom and the image editor Photoshop into one offer for photographers.
Subscribers can choose between two subscriptions for 11.89 euros each: either Lightroom, Lightroom Classic and Photoshop plus 20 GB of cloud storage space or just Lightroom and 1 TByte of cloud storage – The only difference is that Lightroom Classic is not included in this solo version for Lightroom CC. If you want to use all three programs and the large online disk, you pay 23.79 euros per month.
These are the new prices
Adobe explains the new pricing structure in a blog post: Subscribers with annual billing will continue to pay a price of 141.94 euros. This corresponds to 11.83 per month. Existing members can continue to purchase the subscription at the monthly rate of 11.89 euros.
This option will no longer be available for new customers from January 15, 2025. In future, they will pay 17.99 euros per month for the photo subscription with 20 GB of cloud storage.
The Lightroom solo subscription with 1 TByte of storage will cost 14.49 euros. The price structure is therefore becoming more complicated. The largest Lightroom and Photoshop subscription with 1 TByte of storage will remain unchanged. This is likely to be the least popular option anyway, as most users either use Lightroom in the cloud or Lightroom Classic with a local archive, but not both.
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What Adobe wants to achieve
Adobe has offered the photo subscription at the same price for ten years. According to the manufacturer, the new prices are intended to "better reflect the value of the applications". The annual prices remain unchanged. This suggests that Adobe wants to convert occasional users into regular customers.
The Lightroom FAQ also cites recent additions such as lens blur, image noise removal and presets in Lightroom as the reason for the price increase. These and other tools such as generative removal use artificial intelligence and are therefore more computationally intensive than previous approaches.
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