Photoshop CC certainly isn't cheaper to rent than CS was to upgrade, if you're using it for longer than a few months. Over a couple of years it's clearly more e

Photoshop CC certainly isn't cheaper to rent than CS was to upgrade, if you're using it for longer than a few months. Over a couple of years it's clearly more expensive. I'm not really convinced design should atart or end in Photoshop either - design needs to start without preconceptions or limits imposed by the tools (often pencil and paper is beat) and also to consider the medium (in this case the API and GUI toolkits. Something is definitely lost when you split it into separate domains of how things look versus how things work.