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Adobe Creative Cloud 2023 www.adobe.com/creativecloud.html Adobe Creative Cloud is what we used to call Creative Suite. It's a misnomer, because your applications don't live on the cloud and get served to your system (which would then only be acting as a monitor). No, you download the apps to your hard drive and run them from your computer--just like you always did after downloads took over from CDs. However, Adobe has moved to a subscription model, which some find tragic. The problem is, you have to buy the program every year. But there's a theoretical advantage: we're told Adobe has to work harder to make sure there's visible improvement each year. Yet, looking at Adobe's own feature comparisons, we're hard pressed to find significant changes in some of the apps this year. We live with this system because there is nothing like Creative Cloud. For the foreseeable future, Creative Cloud is the lingua franca that digital artists will speak. From Photoshop, to Illustrator, to Dreamweaver, to InDesign, and many more, these are the standard apps we use. There are some excellent alternatives. But with some exceptions, you won't be using them unless you have to. For a more critical look at some of the technical and legal issues surrounding Creative Cloud, the article on Wikipedia is unhappily informative. And we will be looking at some of the alternatives in 2023. So what's new in 2022? There are dozens of important new features, but I'm going to look at only one, because I think it's