Adobe Creative Cloud

Little Kat asked me if I would buy him Adobe software for him to use for school. Oops. That software is usually extremely pricey. Little Kat said that, as a student, he had the option to rent the software at a discount on a monthly basis. Bottom line is $20 per month for software rental.

I told Little Kat we could start by me paying for the software this semester. That is only for another 4 months at the most. Then we can reevaluate whether he needs to keep the software. This is actually a pretty good deal.

Here is what that $20 gives you access to:

• Photoshop
• Lightroom
• Spark
• XD
• Illustrator
• InDesign
• Premiere Pro
• Acrobat Pro

If we were to use the old method of actually purchasing the software, I am sure this would run into the thousands of dollars easily. Even with a student discount, I am sure purchasing the software for permanent usage would run over $1000.

The rental sounds like the right move. If Little Kat ends up not getting into graphic design, no trouble. We can just cancel the rental. And if he need this all through college, it is like we are slowly paying the cost on a monthly plan.

The other good thing is that with this rental, you get the latest versions of the software. You can also install it on multiple machines as long as Little Kat is the guy using the software on those machines. Ah. This must be the future of expensive software.