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Adobe Launches iPad Creative App Bundle for $14.99 per Month

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Adobe has today announced the launch of a new iPad app bundle, including Photoshop, Illustrator, Fresco, Spark Post, and Creative Cloud at half price.

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In a new blog post titled "Everything's coming together for mobile creativity," Adobe set out its vision for the future of creative productivity on the iPad, explaining that "The combination of an iPad and the remarkably precise Apple Pencil makes for a natural, intuitive, and familiar interface, basically mirroring the way most of us began creating, with a pencil or crayon on paper."
In the development of all successful technologies there comes a tipping point — a moment when technology, design, availability, and an understanding of the needs of the market all mature and that technology suddenly seems not only viable, but inevitable. I believe we are at that tipping point now with mobile creative tools.
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To kickstart users interested in committing to mobile creativity using Adobe apps singularly on the iPad, the company is offering a new Design Mobile Bundle for iPad.

The bundle includes Photoshop, Illustrator, Fresco, Spark Post, and the Creative Cloud app, along with access to services like Adobe Fonts, Behance, and Portfolio, plus 100 GB of storage, all for $14.99 per month or $149.99 per year. This is 50 percent off the total price of the apps if subscribed to separately. Customers can download the bundle directly from the App Store.

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I have all CC apps.

Fresco isn’t good yet. It was beaten by Procreate but now that is beaten by Realistic Paint Studio and Artrage. On the desktop Rebelle is the most realistic natural media paint app.
 
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ArPe said:
I have all CC apps.

Fresco isn’t good yet. It was beaten by Procreate but now that is beaten by Realistic Paint Studio and Artrage. On the desktop Rebelle is the most realistic natural media paint app.
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Depends on your use-case. Fresco is, by far, the best app on iPad to simulate pencil sketching. Procreate's pencils are terrible in comparison. I actually find Procreate to be kind of overrated, as it's trying to be a jack of all trades but a master of none.
 
Are the Adobe mobile apps any good now? I used to live and breathe by Adobe products, but tried Photoshop when it first arrived on iPad, and gave up on their mobile offerings pretty fast. Since then, I've become spoiled by the integration and improvements in Affinity's mobile and desktop apps, and don't really see myself migrating to Adobe subscriptions again. Would there be any reason to even consider it now? ie, Am I missing anything now?
 
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vinegarshots said:
Depends on your use-case. Fresco is, by far, the best app on iPad to simulate pencil sketching. Procreate's pencils are terrible in comparison. I actually find Procreate to be kind of overrated, as it's trying to be a jack of all trades but a master of none.
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Are there really no other iPad Apps that does pencil well? I really don’t wanna buy into the subscription crap but would like to practise my pencil drawings digitally.
 
I think it’s BS that you have to pay monthly for Adobe software.

I wish they would bring back the full purchase again, I don’t care how much I have to pay. Or lower the price monthly.
Or maybe introduce a new way to pay, such a one time daily, one timemonthly license or one time yearly license.
It’s annoying have to subscribe and have to keep tabs on crap that you’re not using, so you have to cancel the subscription until you’re ready to use it again.
The purpose of a subscription is a reoccurring payment for reoccurring service.

for some people, photoshop is a personal tool they like to use, not a daily thing they use for work. Professionals who rely on it for work, it makes sense to pay that.
But if I need to use it for a day or 2 out of the whole month, it’s not fair to pay the same amount as someone who will use it non stop.
they need to restructure their business model to segregate professionals from non professional users so the pricing reflects what you are using it for.

At the end of the day, it was so simple to just buy the freaking license so own the software and you can use it at your own leisure without worrying about “oh man, am I still paying for this? Should I cancel it because I haven’t used it all this month? Damn, I just paid 30 dollars for a month of software that I didn’t even use”

it’s just dumb. This wouldn’t be an issue if they weren’t greedy bastards jumping on the subscription bandwagon.
 
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ArPe said:
I have all CC apps.

Fresco isn’t good yet. It was beaten by Procreate but now that is beaten by Realistic Paint Studio and Artrage. On the desktop Rebelle is the most realistic natural media paint app.
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Would you say Realistic Paint Studio is the best iPad app for realistic paintings? It seems to be more full featured than Artrage. I’m also looking into Artstudio Pro since wir mimics the Photoshop drawing experience and you can import brushes with correct settings.
 
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ArPe said:
I have all CC apps.

Fresco isn’t good yet. It was beaten by Procreate but now that is beaten by Realistic Paint Studio and Artrage. On the desktop Rebelle is the most realistic natural media paint app.
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Rebelle looks good, but I'm not impressed by the website. No indication of requirements, and no sign of it on the App Store. It's 2021. I don't need something like a one-click updater when App Store updates takes care of all that.
 
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I initially resisted Lightroom going subscription. But switched over a year or so ago and haven't looked back. The support and updates are good and the price is reasonable. I haven't found an equivalent app that I like, especially one that's able to import the many thousands of RAW images I've made while obeying the non-destructive edits I've previously made.
 
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Nobody cares. The apps are more popular than ever, cheaper than ever and nearly every company is doing it. Autodesk, The Foundry, Pixologic, etc

You can use the cheap substitute apps if you want but they won’t be industry leading and you will not be either.
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It is as inevitable as the sun coming up that any article mentioning Adobe will be filled with the usual subscriptions suck and Adobe sucks replies. Meanwhile Adobe's revenue continues to grow at a healthy clip despite their business model.
 
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ArPe said:
Nobody cares. The apps are more popular than ever, cheaper than ever and nearly every company is doing it. Autodesk, The Foundry, Pixologic, etc

You can use the cheap substitute apps if you want but they won’t be industry leading and you will not be either.
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Probably just best to hack the lot of them in that case.
 
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iMaK18 said:
for some people, photoshop is a personal tool they like to use, not a daily thing they use for work. Professionals who rely on it for work, it makes sense to pay that.

But if I need to use it for a day or 2 out of the whole month, it’s not fair to pay the same amount as someone who will use it non stop.

They need to restructure their business model to segregate professionals from non professional users so the pricing reflects what you are using it for.
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To be fair... Photoshop was never for casual or hobbyist users. None of Adobe's software was.

Photoshop used to cost $700... and $249 for upgrades. And the entire Adobe Suite was $2,600... and $1,300 for upgrades. Most people who bought it did so for business purposes. Thus it was a business expense.

Now that Adobe has switched to subscriptions... they're still geared towards professionals. Their focus hasn't changed.

You're right... the casual user doesn't want to pay an exorbitant amount of money for something they only use once or twice a month.

And that's why Adobe now offers one-time payment software specifically for the casual user: Photoshop Elements

Or they can use any of the wonderful packages from a variety of other companies... Affinity, Pixelmator, etc... for a one-time payment.

Though I must say that the $10/mo subscription to Photoshop/Lightroom is a hell of a deal. It's a small monthly fee and you get continual updates and new features during your subscription.

With the old model... you'd pay $700 for Photoshop and be stuck with the same version unless you paid $249 every couple years.

Or you could subscribe for $10/mo and get new versions when they're released.

You'd have to subscribe for over 5 years to equal the same amount of money you spent on the one version of Photoshop.

:)
 
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x-evil-x said:
I hate subscription models. Makes me not ever want to use their software again and look elsewhere.
Some things (most things)should be one time payments with a possible smaller upgrade fee for new software every year or two.
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Yeah, this is why I didn't bother continuing when Adobe switched over; I held onto my existing CS5 copy as long as I could, and I thought I'd eventually be forced into paying the PS extortion fee. Then came Affinity, and I've never looked back. Honestly haven't missed Adobe at all since the first couple weeks of switching over three years ago now.

The Affinity Publisher/Designer/Photo integration is a dream that Adobe simply can't match.
 
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RealSkyDiver said:
Would you say Realistic Paint Studio is the best iPad app for realistic paintings? It seems to be more full featured than Artrage. I’m also looking into Artstudio Pro since wir mimics the Photoshop drawing experience and you can import brushes with correct settings.
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RPG has a great engine but the interface can get in the way. It needs to support better higher res exports too.
 
VeryVito said:
The Affinity Publisher/Designer/Photo integration is a dream that Adobe simply can't match.
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Affinity Photo is literally Photoshop 10 years ago. It doesn’t even have some important features Photoshop had in the late 90s.
 
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