Adobe is discontinuing public direct download links for older versions of their software – not just for subscription products like Creative Cloud, but also for non-subscription and older legacy software like Creative Suite. To replace them, the company has launched a new online portal to download the standalone installers you need. This web-based facility is free and self-service, meaning you can get these desktop installers immediately without having to contact Adobe Customer Care: Download now All you have to do is sign in to your online account with your free Adobe ID, and then enter your ..read more

Today, Adobe unveiled the Creative Cloud 2023 release in front of over 6,000 attendees at the MAX creativity conference. This major new version includes many new features and advance­ments across the entire product line, as well as the appearance of familiar apps on entirely new platforms. The latest 2023 software is available immediately for worldwide download via the CC Desktop App… All updates are included at no additional cost – which means everyone gets either a free upgrade or a free trial. But some users want or need to access the new tools directly without using Adobe’s download/app m ..read more

In our view, the best deal going in Creative Cloud (if you’re not a student or teacher) is the Photography plan. You get not one, not two, but three core desktop products, plus additional tools and services, for around $10 a month. The Photography plan was originally created as a one-time special offer in 2013, but it proved so popular that Adobe eventually made it permanent. The low price of the plan has not changed from the initial promotion nine years ago all the way up to today. There was even a rumor in 2019 that Adobe was raising the $9.99 price, but that was not the case. So what makes ..read more

Over the years, we’ve put together a large collection of free Adobe books that we share with our readers here… This extensive set of helpful, no-cost books has now grown to over 30 different titles that you can legally download and use royalty-free, forever. These books cover many different Adobe products – but up until now, we haven’t been able to offer a solid book on doing photography together with Adobe’s top creative tools… That has all changed with the excellent (and did we mention free?) new guidebook entitled, Another Photography Book, using Adobe Photoshop Camera Raw and Lightroom Cl ..read more

UPDATE – You can now get Adobe’s new Creative Cloud 2022 Direct Download Links! Every year, Adobe’s creative product launches seem to get bigger – and this year is no exception… This morning, with over 500,000 people attending the first-ever all-virtual (and completely free!) MAX conference, Adobe rolled out the new CC 2021 Release, which has to be the largest product rollout since they first introduced Creative Cloud over eight years ago. As we’ve come to expect from Adobe, there are major updates across the entire suite of tools and services, including entirely new Creative Cloud tools as w ..read more

One sometimes-confusing aspect of Creative Cloud is the different plans for Photoshop that Adobe offers… What do you get with each one? When is Lightroom included and when is it not? Are the same versions of the programs included in the various Photoshop, Lightroom, and Photography plans? Most commonly, customers want to know: What the difference is between the Photoshop Single-App subscription and the less-expensive Creative Cloud Photography Plan? So here are the answers. Adobe’s US$9.99/month Photography plan includes the full Photoshop for both desktop and iPad, the premium version of Pho ..read more

UPDATE – You can now get Adobe’s new Creative Cloud 2022 Direct Download Links! For decades now, Adobe has provided industry-standard standalone installers for their creative products, for many valid reasons… Recent examples include the company publicly posting the direct download links for the CC 2019 and CC 2018 releases. In our view, the need is strong and they should continue to do the same going forward. Last month, in front of a record 15,000 attendees at the annual MAX conference, Adobe unveiled the Creative Cloud 2020 Release with hundreds of new features and advancements. The latest ..read more

We’re on the Adobe Help Forums every day and regularly see users posting queries like “Can’t install Photoshop from the Creative Cloud” or “CC 2022 won’t download,” or “my product updates aren’t working”… It could be for the free trials or for the full paid versions. Often the issue is related to one or the other download managers (DLM) that Adobe uses to deliver its software install­ers. Over the years and for various tools, they have used the Akamai Down­load Manager, the Adobe Down­load Assistant (ADA), the Adobe Applica­tion Manager (AAM), and now the Creative Cloud’s Desktop App. Adobe e ..read more

Professional photographer Rikk Flohr recently posted a video online showing how he created one of his iconic landscape images. Rikk captured and edited (and sold) the photo above over a decade ago, where it took him 10 hours to edit in Photoshop CS4. Out of curiosity, he wanted to see if he could reproduce his results using today’s modern tools, starting with the same original photo in Lightroom Classic 11. How long would it take him? The answer, literally, with Lightroom’s brand new AI-powered masking tools, was just over 10 minutes… In other words, nearly sixty times faster! In the video b ..read more

With one year wrapped up and a new one just beginning, it seemed a perfect time to put together a review of the best and most-shared posts published here since our site launched in 2009 (over 12 years ago now!), including some very popular free books. These are the top posts that consistently have the highest readership on our site, month after month, covering all major Adobe software products…  They’re broken out by topic below in case you’ve missed any, or are new here – so bookmark, share, and enjoy! Free Adobe Books Download Adobe CC Design Basics, Free! New 212-Page Book Get the Ne ..read more