It left in place alternatives with different combinations of cloud storage space and photography software. Subscriptions can be similar in pricing to paying for perpetual licenses and periodic updates, but with perpetual licenses, your software still works even if you stop paying.Īdobe tested the removal of a $10 monthly plan from its website.

The move brings back echoes of complaints about Adobe when it switched to subscriptions from perpetually licensed software, which customers pay for once and then may use for as long as hardware supports it.

A price of $20 per month 'is too high for most beginning photographers,' he tweeted Thursday, soliciting recommendations for alternative software.

The test left some unhappy, including professional photographer and YouTuber Tony Northrup.

'From time to time, we run tests on which cover a range of items, including plan options that may or may not be presented to all visitors to ,' the company said in a statement Thursday. The original $10 option is still available over the phone (1-80) or by visiting Adobe's photography plan website (though it's not visible there for some, including me).

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