People can also pay $20 a month for an individual title, such as Premiere Pro for video editing.
The Creative Cloud subscription costs $50 per month for the company's full suite of software for a full-year commitment the price rises to $75 for a single month's use with no longer-term commitment. But the approach has alienated many customers who don't care for the new pricing strategy. The company gets steady revenue and can issue frequent, modest updates to its products. Subscriptions have been a massive change for Adobe. As with our earlier surveys, we'll publish follow-up coverage on the results so readers can see how their opinions compare to those of other respondents. In a new survey of Adobe customers that CNET is running with RBC Capital Markets (and that you can take part in here), we're trying to find out what customers are doing about that. When Adobe Systems unveiled its CS6 software, back in May 2012, it wasn't yet clear that the release would be the end of the line for software like Photoshop, Illustrator and After Effects.īut now Adobe updates those products only through its Creative Cloud subscription service, and the Creative Suite family, sold instead through traditional perpetual licensing, is falling steadily behind when it comes to features. Illustrator CS6 is notably faster and smarter then the previous edition.Adobe's Creative Cloud subscriptions reached 2.81 million in the third fiscal quarter of 2014. It's a huge file, though, so patience will probably be required.
Please note, the file you'll download here is Adobe's Download Manager, which will then fetch and install Illustrator for you. Is it worth the upgrade, then? Tricky: the performance enhancements and UI tweaks are welcome, but may not be enough to justify the outlay. There's a new image tracing engine to help you convert raster images to vectors, for instance, and the program can now easily create seamless tiled vector patterns, but that's about it. You're looking for something more? Illustrator CS6 is relatively short on the big new features. And you can dock tools horizontally or vertically to organise your workspace just how you'd like. So even options which were previously hidden away, such as the Shape and Pen tools, can now be torn off and docked. There's an obvious new look (you can even tweak the UI brightness to your personal taste), but Adobe report making more than 40 usability tweaks to the Illustrator interface, from easier font changes to inline editing of layer names.Īnd workspace management just generally works a little more like you'd always hoped. The previous Gaussian blur implementation wasn't the best, for instance, but it's been optimised for CS6, and as a result Gaussian blurs (and effects which depend on them, such as drop shadows and glows) are now much, much faster. True 64-bit support and Adobe's Mercury Performance System play a big part in improving responsiveness, but Adobe have also been identifying and resolving bottlenecks all around the package. One major headline this time is the new focus on performance.
Adobe Illustrator CS6 is a powerful vector drawing tool that includes everything you'll need for design, web and video projects.