But, by buying the CS4 Master Collection within 30 days of the new release, I was guaranteed of getting the CS5 Master Collection for FREE.

You see, Adobe increased the cost of the CS5 Master Collection by $100. On Monday, April 26th, I placed my order for the CS4 Master Collection instead of the CS5 Master Collection. Last week Adobe announced that CS5 would start shipping on April 30, 2010. Essentially, I was loosing the money that I just spent to upgrade to CS4 from CS3! Very annoying!īut, this time, I beat Adobe at their own game. Even though I had already upgraded to the CS4 Design Premium Suite, Adobe gave no additional discount for upgrading further to the CS4 Master Collection. I also considered jumping into the CS5 Master Collection at that time, but Adobe can be really ridiculous with their upgrade pricing. Since I would have been upgrading from an old stand-alone copy of Premiere, the cost was high. For me, the numbers made sense.īack when I first started with the Canon 7D and HD-Video, I considered getting the CS4 Production Premium Suite. I ended up jumping in with both feet and upgraded to the CS5 Master Collection. For me, I was torn between upgrading to the CS5 Web Premium Suite and the CS5 Production Premium Suite. Maybe increasing the price of the CS4 upgrade during a recession wasn’t such a good idea … hmmm?įor many, the big release is Photoshop CS5, but there are major upgrades across all of the Adobe programs. After all, Adobe needs the sales from CS5 to rebound from lackluster sales of CS4. Streaming live events, YouTube videos, Adobe Road Shows, web teasers, and even old school magazine and press releases … Adobe plastered everything. Only if you were marooned with the cast of Lost for the past two months, could you have missed Adobe’s marketing machine promoting the release of CS5.

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