Is Adobe Creative Cloud perfect for aspiring graphic artist entrepreneurs?

I’ve always been a fan of Adobe products, but as a consumer / tinkerer in design, I couldn’t stomach forking over the dollars for awesome yet expensive Creative Suite (CS) package.

Enter Adobe Creative Cloud.

Starting at $49.99/month (1 year subscription), I can get access to the software I am interested in trying out. Thinking about who a this Software as a Service model also benefits, students, freelance graphic artists, start-ups. The idea that you can subscribe to a software package like Adobe CS on a monthly basis provides young aspiring artists to get up an going faster, with less up front capital expense.

If I was an aspiring graphic artist entrepreneur, I would definitely lean towards the cloud for software, additional storage, mobility…all of the benefits the cloud is supposed to deliver.  But, I am not, so I ask you – the real graphic artists out there – is Adobe Creative Cloud something you would have used when you got started? Why or why not?

Here’s an infographic that breaks the cloud down in real savings to startups.

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2012-02-16T15:28:11+00:00

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  2. Nathan Leeds April 30, 2012 at 4:50 pm - Reply

    Just bought a 2 Tb seagate external drive which seems great and I am also going to fly into the adobe creative cloud but I can’t help wonder if it would be possible to install the adobe creative cloud on an external drive?

    • Mark Wojtasiak May 1, 2012 at 2:42 pm - Reply

      @Nathan Leeds Good question. Typically running apps from an external drive does not work, and when it comes to using Adobe’s Creative Cloud, I would assume you can work via their cloud, but save your work to a local disk. I would check with Adobe. Thanks for the biz, and the comment! Let me know what you find out. – Woj

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