Quote Originally Posted by richardginn View Post
If you already own Adobe Photoshop CS6 and an upgrade to a CS7 version if it did exist would be $199 bucks.

20 bucks times 18 months is 360 bucks. The upgrade price is less than the price you spend over 18 months on that creative could subscription.
The upgrade means you have an older version that you paid retail for. If you've had Photoshop legally for any period of time you are talking about a $1,000+. And it's not like a version of Photoshop from 10 years ago even runs properly. Even older versions of CS don't run on OS X.

There are very few scenarios where you will come out ahead by having "purchased" any Adobe product over the new model.