Photoshop The king of Adobe software is, of course, Adobe Photoshop. Now that Adobe no longer sells CS6 applications, the only professional version available from Adobe is Photoshop CC, which you get through a paid Creative Cloud membership. The most affordable membership is the $9.99 Photography Plan which includes Photoshop, Lightroom CC, and Lightroom Classic as well as a range of online services, including Lightroom cloud storage and syncing across devices as well as an website. If you use Photoshop for business reasons this is probably going to be one of the smallest business expenses you have. The relatively low cost of the Photography Plan means that most of the people who don’t want to subscribe to Creative Cloud are opposed to it for reasons that aren’t economic. The only non-subscription version of Photoshop currently for sale is Photoshop Elements, or you can use a non-Adobe Photoshop alternative. See below for more information about those options. Lightroom Update: On October 18, 2017, Adobe announced the under; it was also announced that Lightroom 6 is the last version available through a perpetual license.