50% Increase to Adobe Photography Plan - or is it?

Adobe has hiked the subscription for the Photography Plan by 50% (or has it)

Hi, my name is Rich Dyson from Edinburgh Photography Workshop, and this is Coffee Break Photography.

In an un-Christmassy move, Adobe slipped out a price increase of 50% for those of you who pay for their monthly subscription for the Adobe Photography Plan. The next time your plan renews after 15 January 2025, instead of the current £9.99 a month, you’ll be shelling out £14.99 a month instead. That’s not exactly what we want to hear in the middle of a cost-of-living crisis!

Now I am sure that there will be some comments below to tell me that the best solution is to dump Adobe once and for all. I know I justified staying with Adobe just a few weeks ago because they hadn’t increased the Photography Plan pricing when they announced wider price changes to the Adobe Creative Cloud suite. I’m still going to stick to that advice, even after this announcement because there’s still an easy way to pay £9.99 a month for the photography plan.

As well as announcing this price rise for new customers, there’s also an extra line in the announcement that tells us the monthly subscription is being removed for new customers. If anything, this is the big news and not the price rise. The £10 a month price tag was a great way for unsure photographers to get into using the Adobe editing tools. Now they’ll need to use the 28-day free trial but deciding to splash out on an annual payment. But, of course, that’s been hidden by the headline that the cost of the Photography Plan has gone up by 50%. But, it hasn’t.

When you read on through the blog posted on Adobe’s site on 15 December, the price for the annual Photography Plan subscription hasn’t changed. Effectively, you can still buy the same plan, but now you’ll have to pay those monthly payments in one go. As I record this video today, December 17, 2025, there is a deal on Amazon to buy the 12-month subscription to the Adobe Photography Plan with 20GB of cloud storage, bundled with a one-year subscription to McAfee Total Protection and you’ll pay just £77.99. You can get that deal by clicking on this QR code, and I’ll add a link below the video. That’s just less than £6.50 a month and you are getting 12-months of anti-virus, security, identity and privacy protection as well.

If you still want to use a monthly plan, then Adobe will continue to offer it with a monthly subscription to Lightroom only. At the new price of £11.99 per month with 1 terabyte of cloud storage included, you are getting an affordable deal, and it also now includes the Lightroom Classic as well as Lightroom CC. However, remember that you won’t have access to Photoshop at this price, which means that if you want to do anything with layers, such as the Light-Trails I shared a few weeks ago, you won’t be able to do it.

Similarly, the Photography Plan with one terabyte of data included is also going to remain at the existing prices and offer a monthly subscription option. At £19.99 a month, you will have access to all the versions of Lightroom, Photoshop, as well as the content creator tool, Adobe Express.

My recommendation, if you can afford it, is to buy the annual subscription to the 20GB Photography Plan. One of the next videos I am going to put out is going to compare the various versions of Lightroom and why you shouldn’t need to buy any more than 20GB of Adobe cloud storage.

So, to summarise, there are only two changes to Adobe’s pricing. The Photography Plan 20GB option has increased to £14.99 a month from the next renewal after 15 January 2025 and this option has been removed for new customers. The second increase is the Photography Plan 1TB monthly option which has increased by £2 to £11.99 a month. Everything else has stayed the same.

Always keep an eye on Amazon pricing for the Photography Plan, there appears to be more and more deals available which reduces the cost of an annual licence to around the £6.50 a month. At that price, I still believe that the combination of Lightroom and Photoshop is the best value and quality photo-editing tools you can buy.  

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