With CS6, it appears you can cross-upgrade Suites in any way. In other words, you couldn’t upgrade a Standard Edition Suite to a Master Collection Suite, or a Premium Edition Suite to a Standard Edition Suite. Unless I’m mistaken, in the past you couldn’t cross-path upgrade. What is somewhat unclear is what qualifies as an upgrade.

So basically, if you want to maintain upgrade pricing in the future, you WILL be upgrading this year. The important thing to note, that has not been widely publicized or obvious on the upgrade pages, is the fact that upgrade pricing to CS6 from ANY VERSION lower than CS 5.5 ends on December 31, 2012. There are three different prices for the 23 possible upgrade paths. I was looking to upgrade my CS Design Premium Suite to CS6, when I clicked the upgrade option drop-down menu, it damn near scrolled off my screen. Maybe I’m just not remembering things as well, but I don’t ever recall Adobe’s upgrade options being so complicated. Purchase Adobe Lightroom 4 for $99 when you buy it with Photoshop CS 6 or any CS 6 Suite Edition. If you’re still running Creative Suite 3, 4 or 5, you can order CS 5.5 now and get CS6 for free when it ships. Creative Cloud subscriptions include the entire Adobe Master Collection set of apps, all Adobe’s Touch apps, and a host of cloud services. Creative CloudĬreative Suite 3 and higher owners can purchase a Creative Cloud subscription by Augand receive your first year for only $30 per month (regularly $50 per month). That is, if you can figure out which upgrades you’re eligible for, and for how long. If you’re debating about upgrading, perhaps one of these discounts will make the decision for you.

Adobe is offering some nice Creative Suite CS6 upgrade and Creative Cloud subscription discounts.

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