While my days of working in the design field are long over, a few projects I’m working on this year might get me back into using Adobe Creative Cloud. While there are some tools (Pages $20) that will meet most users’ needs for page layout, I think InDesign is still the gold standard for this task. With a few of these projects in mind, I started looking at Creative Cloud a little closer.

The Creative Cloud is not an inexpensive proposition. While the pricing plans are full of options, it’s fair to say a membership will run you between $50-75 a month, with the $75 price requiring no annual commitment. There is also an individual app price available. That said, these are pro-level tools and are priced accordingly. What is nice, though, is now that Adobe has moved the suite to the cloud, they are rolling out updates much…