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From Gary Benson: I’m sure you Photoshop users know that Adobe as gone to a subscription model at $20/month. At that price I won’t do it. However, I found out you can get it at $10/month plus Lightroom and some Flash software. Ok I’ll byte. See http://www.pentaxforums.com/news/photoshop-cc-10-dollars-per-month-deal.html#commentarea for a brief write up plus comments. Most are negative of the subscription model. Also, the article says ‘for life’ at $10/month. There is a link to the $10 deal at Adobe. Adobe doesn’t say for life, but I’ll worry about it in a year. I did it… Lightroom would not install until I upgraded my MAC to Lion, now it does. It all seems to work. Gary Benson