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An awesome selfie - must try this
Thank you for your link - I have signed the petition to Adobe as the projected cost for me is probably similar to that of Australia - close to $50,000.00 over the life of my computer - a ridiculous amount for an amateur photographer to even think about! I am very disappointed but I am willing to bet that the resulting hole in the market will be filled rapidly with something from someone with more class than greed!
I hope Adobe have messed up big time with this decision. I bought CS6 as a "pressie" to myself - I have no intention of giving Adobe any more money. It will probably take me the rest of my life to work out the program I have got. You have done a good service in bringing this subject up. Thanks.
@espyetta I am going to keep using the version I have (CS5) but unless they change their attitude to photographer-users of Photoshop I will not be buying any more - there are too many good alternatives out there.
@kittikat I agree. I think that this will come back to bite Adobe. In the long run the large number of little guys that use the software will go elsewhere. I hope it will open up the market.
It looks like an eye - even more so on the thumbnail.
What's the likelihood of other companies which provide similar editing software jumping on the CC subscription bandwagon?
@dulciknit - Microsoft have committed to going to this business model by 2020. They do not believe that Adobe are right to do it now. Word is that there is a lot of watching and listening going on at Microsoft right now. Meanwhile the shares at Adobe have taken a big hit this week. If we hit them in the pocket that will impact the business!
@dulciknit - Sorry, I did not really answer your question. I am sure that other companies in photo-editing will be listening in, but I think the time is not right for this in general. If you take the licence away you take away freedom. For photographers who work in the field a lot it the loss of that freedom is an impact. Internet is not good enough yet in many places for mobile computing to give up licences yet. Anyway, in my view Adobe are not offering anything for the price lift. The loose references to "services" are a very poor excuse for ripping people off.
So, it's going to happen eventually but current technology is not good/reliable enough to support it? And we want carrots of a lot more tempting quality and value than are currently on offer!
@dulciknit - The technology is good and it is there. It is just not widespread enough to give good coverage. The real point is that we are establishing a new licence model. If we accept this model without protest then we will all be locked into contracts forever. Frankly the software improvements are such small incremental steps these days that renew cycles have become non-events. Feature bloat is so bad that we get useless updates rather than significant improvements. Large corporations like MS and Adobe recognise they cannot make the money from upgrades any more so they need to tie people into contracts to pay for diminishing marginal returns on ever smaller improvements in the software. Lets face it. The software industry is maturing. Companies like Adobe and MS recognise they cannot make as much money in the same way now.
I am not prepared to pay more for less and less as the years go by.
Neat selfie. No way I could afford the Cloud version unless I win a lottery. I read an article somewhere that it would cost us $50 per month US dollars. As you mentioned, not all places one travels has good internet connection and when we travel we take a laptop. I have Serif Photo Plus, but have been using Photoshop Elements.
Thank you for your link - I have signed the petition to Adobe as the projected cost for me is probably similar to that of Australia - close to $50,000.00 over the life of my computer - a ridiculous amount for an amateur photographer to even think about! I am very disappointed but I am willing to bet that the resulting hole in the market will be filled rapidly with something from someone with more class than greed!
What's the likelihood of other companies which provide similar editing software jumping on the CC subscription bandwagon?
I am not prepared to pay more for less and less as the years go by.