In 2013 Adobe moved all their apps to a subscription service known as Creative Cloud.

I thought this move was great because like many I was running cracked versions of several Adobe apps and genuinely didn't like doing so for both moral and reliability reasons.

The opportunity to go legit and get ALL Adobe apps for just €60 per month was more than appealing. And it heralded a new era of me actively learning new tools like After Effects, Premiere, Audition, Muse and Edge. It was great.

Then after a while the romance began to falter...the Creative Cloud installer app became a pleading and truculent mistress...massive updates and repeated re-installations through a painfully slow rural Spanish connection.

The main design apps - Photoshop and Illustrator became so slow, bloated and increasingly out of touch compared to newer apps like Sketch and Affinity Designer/Photo.

But the real clincher came when I gave up my day job to work on the game last summer. I needed to drastically cut monthly outgoings...that €60 per month along with other recurring charges all had to be reconsidered.

Another thing: Adobe bought then closed DollarPhotoClub to push us towards their own stock photo service which is now annoyingly shoved in front of you everyday through the CC app.

Financial fears aside, for the first time since my teens I had a summer and I enjoyed many sloppy days here in Spain and in Italy, barely doing any work and in turn not using my Creative Cloud subscription at all.

It would have been nice to be able to pause it.

I opted for the yearly subscription not the month to month plan (which you can cancel at any time). Cancelling my plan would result in a massive 50% of my ¨remaining contract obligation¨ so I sat tight and resolved to either cancel completely or wait, cancel and switch to the monthly plan so I could selectively switch it and off during slow months.

My subscription recurred tomorrow 14th January 2017 so I contacted them today.

How to get Adobe Creative Cloud cheaper: I got a 50% discount from €60 per month to €36 per month

Please note: I´m sure they have some caps on this and perhaps if you are a newer customer or using the monthly plan it will not work. I have been paying for the annual Creative Cloud plan since 2013. And my dick move of sharing this info pales compared to their scummy cancellation penalties.



Step 1

Go to here , read the T&C's and sign into your Adobe Account.

Step 2

Under Plans & Products, click Manage and then Cancel Plan.

Step 3

So here we begin to see the open secret...the pop up says that you may get an offer by starting a Live Chat.