Get a year of Adobe Creative Cloud for a massive 40% off

If you’ve been using Adobe software for as long as I have (here, let me check my calendar, oh god where did twenty years go), you know it’s some of the most ridiculously expensive stuff around. So if you can get a deal on it, do so and count yourself lucky. Such is the case with Amazon’s Prime Big Deal Days, which has the full Adobe Creative Cloud software suite and tools for a whopping 40 percent off. That’s still $357.99 for a year’s subscription, but hey, beggars can’t be choosers.

The subscription includes all the hits: Photoshop, Premiere, Illustrator, Lightroom, InDesign, and about a dozen more, available to download and install on Windows or Mac. On top of that, you get web versions of some tools (like the online, Chromebook-compatible Photoshop Web beta), 100GB of Adobe cloud storage, access to 20,000 licensed fonts, and 1000 credits a month for Adobe’s Firefly AI-powered generative image credits.

For the sake of comparison, that $357.99 breaks down to just under $30 a month, which is less than you’d pay for any two of Adobe’s primary applications alone (and a lot less than the per-month recurring charge). Calling it a “deal” might be overly generous — especially since there are so many free Photoshop alternatives — but it’s still a pretty decent bit of savings if you’re planning on purchasing it anyway.

Take note, according to some of the Amazon reviews the subscription begins as soon as you make the purchase, not when you redeem the subscription.