@muraii yeah, as far as I know you're stuck with CC. At this point unfortunately Adobe is doing its best to funnel all photoshop users towards it–reselling is illegal I think, & they've stopped selling CS6 entirely...so it's subscription or the pirate's life. :s

I'm still using an old university copy of CS5 for now, but I'm thinking that the most sensible way forward long term might be to buckle down & try to learn some open source programs.

@paralithode @muraii I bit the bullet and got CC. I convinced myself that jumping in early might lock me in at a lower price. However, I'm sure there's some legal ease in there that will allow them to change the fee.

On Mac there's Affinity and Pixelmator or something like that. Always curious to try, but decided I'd be more productive sticking to what I know.