

If you've even gone through the process of cancelling your account you'll know that Adobe always throw in a special deal to keep you on board. Having already shelled out $60 for Adobe Stock I didn't want to do another $250, but equally I didn't want to keep paying for a license I was no longer using. Avoiding the Early Termination Fee with Adobe Hitting the cancel subscription button to the Creative Cloud was different though, it wanted me to pay $250 for the early termination fee.

This got me thinking that it was time to pull the plug on my Adobe Creative Cloud subscription. This is something I'd seen before when I tried to cancel in the past, but this time I was willing to take the $60 slap in the face to avoid spending more money on something I didn't use. To my disappointment I was presented with this. When I finally got some time I went through and chose 120 different images or templates that I thought I might be able to use, and then cancelled my account before the next payment occurred. Unfortunately, the quality of the content seemed to not compare to some of the other free options like Unsplash, and all the great images that were on Adobe Stock were now under the premium content which required that you pay additional money on top of your regular subscription. Over time, however, I found that I was using the 10 credits per month less and less until finally I had more than 120 credits to use and nothing to use them on. When Adobe Stock became a thing I was seduced into trying it out, and initially it was great.

