Adobe Announces All New Creative Cloud Photography Plan

New Photography Plan Combines Lightoom, Photoshop and Powerful Mobile Apps

By Brent Durand, June 18, 2014

Adobe has announced some major updates to its Creative Cloud service, including a revised $9.99/mo Photography Plan. The services available in the new Adobe Creative Cloud Photography Plan are well worth the monthly subscription for anyone who doesn't have Lightroom and Photoshop or has older versions of the software.  I'm one of the folks who bought an upgrade to Photoshop CS6 before Creative Cloud gained momentum and have been holding back on switching to the subscription, however the new Cloud and Photography Package is looking pretty irresistable.

Hightlights:

New Adobe Creative Cloud Photography Plan

• $9.99 per month

• Photoshop CC & Lightroom 5.5

• Lightroom mobile apps for iPad and iPhone

• Photoshop Mix:  New iPad app bringing some powerful Photoshop features into the iPad for edits on the go

• Lightroom and Photoshop upgrades as part of 14 new version releases

Benefits

• Always have the latest software versions

• Powerful editing tools for editing while on trips or in the field via iPad and iPhone

PRESS RELEASE:

New Creative Cloud Technology Connects Latest Photography Tools; New Photoshop Mix Debuts for iPad

SAN JOSE, Calif. — June 18, 2014 — Adobe (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced the availability of the new Adobe Creative Cloud Photography plan. Designed for anyone interested in photography, the new plan brings together -- for USD$9.99 per month -- Photoshop CC and Lightroom 5, two tools that have fundamentally impacted how photographs and imagery shape our visual culture, as well as Lightroom’s breakthrough mobile apps on iPad and now iPhone. Also introduced today is the all-new Photoshop Mix, a new iPad app that provides access to powerful Photoshop features normally confined to the desktop, enabling compositing and transformative edits while on the go. Built using the new Adobe Creative SDK, Photoshop Mix delivers new levels of Adobe imaging precision and magic to mobile users.

“With our Lightroom products alone managing over 100 billion images, we know there’s a huge appetite from photography enthusiasts to have powerful, world-class software available on their mobile devices as well as their computers,” said Winston Hendrickson, vice president, digital imaging, Adobe. “With Photoshop, Lightroom and new mobile photo apps, we’ve created the most complete photography solution on the planet, ensuring that anyone interested in photography can be creative with their images, no matter where they are.”

Create and Manage Beautiful Images in Photoshop CC and Lightroom 5

Photoshop CC, part of the Creative Cloud Photography Plan, was updated, with stunning new features -- as part of a milestone release of Adobe Creative Cloud (see separate press release). Features for photographers, include:

• Perspective Warp – The recently introduced capability for fluidly adjusting the perspective of a specific part of your image without affecting the surrounding area.
  
   
• Blur Gallery motion effects - Two new additions, Path Blur and Spin Blur create a sense of motion, even if not originally captured with a camera, enabling photographers to tell their story or express just the right feeling in an image. There’s also faster performance when creating blur effects with the Mercury Graphics Engine delivering a performance boost with OpenCL.
  
   
• Focus Mask - Lets Photoshop CC create the first step of a mask by automatically selecting the in-focus areas of an image. The Focus Mask feature works great with headshots and other images that have shallow depth of field.
  
   
• Content-Aware color adaptation improvements - Previously when using Content-Aware features, if a selected area contained smooth gradients, it didn’t necessarily appear in the final image. Now retouched images using Content-Aware Fill, Move, and Patch gets more seamless and realistic. Additionally, new technology blends areas containing gradients, like skies, to give exceptional results.
  
   
• Improved stylus support and experimental features for Windows 8.1 – Enjoy smoother brush strokes and a simple out-of-the-box experience with expanded stylus support for Windows 8.1. Turn on experimental features for touch and gesture controls and bigger touch targets on devices like Surface Pro 3.

Pricing and Availability

Creative Cloud Photography plan is available at $USD9.99 per month. For additional details, please visit www.adobe.com/go/photographyplan.

To get started with Lightroom mobile, visit www.adobe.com/go/lrmobile_getstarted.

Photoshop Mix is free and available for download in the Apple app store:https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/adobe-photoshop-mix-creative/id885271158. To learn more about Photoshop Mix, please visit mix.adobe.com.

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