On May 6, 2013, Adobe announced that CS6 would be the last version of the Creative Suite, and that future versions of their creative software would only be available via their Adobe Creative Cloud subscription model. CS6 was the last of the Adobe design tools to be physically shipped as boxed software as future releases and updates would be delivered via download only. The last of the Creative Suite versions, Adobe Creative Suite 6 (CS6), was launched at a release event on April 23, 2012, and released on May 7, 2012. IA-32 (limited), PowerPC (limited), x86-64Īdobe Creative Suite ( CS) is a discontinued software suite of graphic design, video editing, and web development applications developed by Adobe Systems.