It sounds like a massive cost saving for Adobe Stock users, but the new plan is pitched at multi-user teams, not individuals
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Adobe Stock is essentially an image stock library embedded in Adobe apps and services, and you choose a subscription plan that offers a certain number of royalty free image downloads, starting at $29.99/£19.99 per month for 10 assets with bigger allowances and credit packs available. It’s convenient, but not exactly cheap.
But Adobe’s new Creative Cloud Pro Edition comes with unlimited Adobe Stock access and the company’s library of 200 million ‘standard assets’ including images, vectors and illustrations.
That’s a huge potential cost saving, but it’s currently only available to teams and enterprises of five or more users. It’s an extension of Adobe’s Creative Cloud for Teams plan, which is administered centrally with enhanced user management. The Pro plan is not for individual photographers or designers.
The biggest advantage of the Creative Cloud Pro Edition will be for companies specialising in graphic design, product design, marketing materials etc that require ready-made imagery for mockups and finished layouts.
Adobe Stock images are also useful for photographers who composite artworks and illustrations, but individual photographers will only have access to the regular Adobe Stock plans.
Adobe’s Creative Cloud for business Pro Edition is available now for teams and enterprises with five or more users.
If your organization already has a Creative Cloud for Teams plan, you can upgrade to. The Pro Edition at the same price as your existing subscription for up to one year.
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Otherwise, the Pro Edition for Creative Cloud for Teams will be $79.99/£59 per month per user for the first year, then $89.99/£66.42 per month per each user from year two and beyond.
The Single App version is $33.99/£25.25 per month per user for the first year and $39.99/£29.75 per month per user from year two and beyond.
Rod is an independent photography journalist and editor, and a long-standing Digital Camera World contributor, having previously worked as DCW's Group Reviews editor. Before that he has been technique editor on N-Photo, Head of Testing for the photography division and Camera Channel editor on TechRadar, as well as contributing to many other publications. He has been writing about photography technique, photo editing and digital cameras since they first appeared, and before that began his career writing about film photography. He has used and reviewed practically every interchangeable lens camera launched in the past 20 years, from entry-level DSLRs to medium format cameras, together with lenses, tripods, gimbals, light meters, camera bags and more. Rod has his own camera gear blog at fotovolo.com but also writes about photo-editing applications and techniques at lifeafterphotoshop.com
