

CS6 was the last of the Adobe design tools to be physically shipped as boxed software as future releases and updates would be delivered via download only. On May 6, 2013, Adobe announced that CS6 would be the last version of the Creative Suite, and that future versions of their creative software would only be available via their Adobe Creative Cloud subscription model. Adobe also announced that it would continue to support CS6 and would provide bug fixes and security updates through the next major upgrades of both Mac and Windows operating systems (as of 2013).


The Creative Suite packages were pulled from Adobe's online store in 2013, but were still available on their website until January 2017. Each edition may come with all these apps included or only a subset.Īdobe sold Creative Suite applications in several different combinations called "editions", these included: The following table shows the different details of the core applications in the various Adobe Creative Suite editions.
