Though Adobe is drawing a focus to its cloud services, it isn't actually changing much about them.
The Creative Cloud upgrade is about integrating apps and services
Adobe purchased the website in December, and it will now use the Creative Cloud companion app as a way to notify users of any comments made on their work. It's also integrating many of the apps with Behance, a site that allows artists to present their work and receive feedback from others. The company says that a new desktop companion app will be able to automatically keep every CC product up to date.
The company will continue to sell standalone copies of Creative Suite 6 applications for now, but it will not continue to update them with new features.Īs the products' new naming scheme suggests, Adobe is enhancing the cloud integration between all of its services. The product series has been on a yearly release cycle since 2011, and this latest upgrade includes new features for nearly every product in the series, including Photoshop, Illustrator, and Premiere Pro, all of which now have their name appended with CC, instead of CS.Īll of the apps in Creative Cloud will be replaced with the newly upgraded ones when Adobe releases them on June 17th. The company is giving its application suite a new, but familiar name to emphasize the change: Adobe Creative Cloud will be replacing Creative Suite 6, the version released last year. Adobe previously offered standalone editions of each product, which users could choose to keep or upgrade as new editions were released, but now the only way to receive major feature updates to the product series will be to remain subscribed to the $49.99 per month service.Īdobe could stem piracy by requiring subscriptions The company has just announced the next version of its flagship digital editing tools, Creative Suite, and for the first time the new products will only be available through the company's online subscription service. Adobe is making a major move into the cloud.