The price is not a limited time promotional price. It's the actual price as long as you sign up before the end of the year (that's what makes it a 'limited time offer').
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Adobe Offering Photoshop CC and Lightroom for $9.99/Month to Current Photoshop Owners
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The price is not a limited time promotional price. It's the actual price as long as you sign up before the end of the year (that's what makes it a 'limited time offer').
Good job Adobe! Keep on punishing new prospective customers. I have never paid for your apps before, but would have signed up to use Photoshop and Lightroom for 9.99/mo happily.
But I guess the idea of catering to young people who can't afford your bloated prices doesn't entice you. I guess you'd rather just lower the prices for those who were honorable enough to pay in the past, and put up yet another wall between US and YOU.
I will now happily find a way to pirate your new software. I was happy using the old stuff, but now I just want to spite you.
But I guess the idea of catering to young people who can't afford your bloated prices doesn't entice you. I guess you'd rather just lower the prices for those who were honorable enough to pay in the past, and put up yet another wall between US and YOU.
I will now happily find a way to pirate your new software. I was happy using the old stuff, but now I just want to spite you.
Exactly. I know a couple of guys that still rock CS2...and it looks like they aren't upgrading. I'm sticking with CS6 until computers simply won't run it anymore. Adobe is going down the wrong road.
Add a cloud service like Dropbox to this deal and leave the $9.99 price and perhaps I'll bite.
I just got Lightroom 5 while it is on sale. I have Photoshop CS4 and could not open raw files from my new camera. I can't upgrade CS4 to CS6 and I am not about to pay full price again or subscribe to CC. I didn't realize they cut off the upgrade eligibility to CS5+ until recently. So my only option for raw files on CS4 is to use the DNG converter. I decided to just grab Lightroom since it will work for mostly everything I do with photographs and the current version will open my camera's raw files. Actually, Lightroom will probably be better for me than Ps for the type of editing I end up doing with photos. I will just use Ps for advanced editing after converting in Lr.
I am not buying into that subscription crap. They probably lowered the price because they can't get CS owners to switch to CC. It most likely will be $9.99 with a one year obligation.
I am not buying into that subscription crap. They probably lowered the price because they can't get CS owners to switch to CC. It most likely will be $9.99 with a one year obligation.
My colegue is still using CS2 on iMac G5. You wouldn't believe stuff he can do and does.
Renting software is supreme ********.
That's the huge problem Adobe is facing. The software is so good, that for almost any work do you really need to upgrade every year? Of course not.
Thing about Photoshop is that is hasn't changed that much to where the older versions are obsolete. Adobe tries to make you think you need the newest version which is BS, except that they are purposely not supporting RAW Camera file updates. What is so special about Adobe RAW 8.1 that it won't work on CS4? Probably nothing.
I don't agree with this software rental business. I bought Lightroom 5 outright with student discount a few months ago because it's the only piece of software I use. In fact, it seems to be the only piece of software Adobe makes which is solely aimed at photography anymore. I don't even believe Photoshop is about photos anymore.
On the contrary - I'd happily subscribe if it were $0.01/month. Otherwise... nope.
It seems pretty obvious they're not getting the Creative Cloud buy-in they were hoping for.
Apple's doing the same thing. Good luck opening RAW off nikon and canon's newest if you prefer to work on an older OS like Snow Leopard. Ill probably pull the trigger on Mavericks as it seems like a final proper upgrade but 10.7 and 10.8 seemed like nothing but iOS feature ports and stripping out the ability to do advanced functions more easily cuz its "too complicated" for the iOS halo buyers.
Aperture is so overdue it's a wonder if it will ever be released, I do use it but a lot less than I used to as I now use capture one and beginning to get used to this UI. Apple are behind these days and the longer they are the less people will stay with them. I for one wouldn't be happy to pay a monthly fee regardless of being a pro or not (its my job), Adobe are on a tightrope but there's enough out there to make the monthly payment (tax) worth while.
wow, website hosting for $10/month and I get software.
not too bad. I'm going to look into this further. decision comes on what the hosting provides. I pay $25/month right now for my server space.
wonder how many people here who don't want to rent software use google apps or office 365 or similar.
not too bad. I'm going to look into this further. decision comes on what the hosting provides. I pay $25/month right now for my server space.
wonder how many people here who don't want to rent software use google apps or office 365 or similar.
Everything is going this way. You can fight it but what happens when 99% of new software is subscription based?
Includes 20 GIGS of storage
They did.... 20GIG of storage, 4 times what my dropbox account is. You also get a $99 a year ProSite website included.
They did.... 20GIG of storage, 4 times what my dropbox account is. You also get a $99 a year ProSite website included.
Exactly. It might take longer, but can be done. Plenty of great images have been produced with lesser software.
And there's plenty of work arounds if you can't do something. Photoshop CC has NOTHING that CS6 can't do. Once it gets to the points it does, I'll still find another method.
Perhaps this is why Adobe went this route - THEY KNOW people will be hard press to upgrade when CS6 does it all and then some.
The only people I see hyping this is Scott Kelby's crew and he's paid to say great stuff about CC so, take what he says with a grain of salt.
If MS goes the same route with Office, there's plenty of alternatives.
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You're confused. Revel is a different storage solution they offer. 20 gigs is too small when I have 23 with Dropbox, 25 in SkyDrive and 40 with Copy and 1TB with Flickr.
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Not when people are making open sourced software. People don't want monthly bills to use software... $20 for Adobe, $20 for Microsoft, $20 for this and that. No thanks.
Yep.
I pay $30 something a month for mine, and WOW has it worked out very well for me. I had to learn After Effects down the road, and am now learning Flash. It's at a price point that works for me, and the perks outweigh the overall cost. TypeKit is great, and I love how I have access to it In-App now. And I love that I have 20GB that I can access anywhere. I use it instead of Dropbox.
Really you are learning Flash? Please look into HTML5 animation apps and skip Flash it is a dead end.
I can't believe this!
I can't believe the negativity on this forum. Everyone was complaining when it was $50 a month, and now that they dropped it to $10 a month, with exactly what photographers need, everyone is upset.
For those who say they won't rent software, you never really "own" any software. You're only buying a license to use the software. Most software agreements technically are revocable at any time.
If Adobe wasn't offering this, you could still go with the old program, and pay $200 to upgrade Photoshop and $80 each year to upgrade Lightroom. Why would you want that? That would cost you $360 over 2 years! This will cost $240 over two years, with constant updates.
If you're not a professional, you can still "buy" Lightroom for $149. But if you can't afford $9.99 a month, how professional are you?
The price of one new lens would pay for 10 years of Photoshop and Lightroom.
I can't believe the negativity on this forum. Everyone was complaining when it was $50 a month, and now that they dropped it to $10 a month, with exactly what photographers need, everyone is upset.
For those who say they won't rent software, you never really "own" any software. You're only buying a license to use the software. Most software agreements technically are revocable at any time.
If Adobe wasn't offering this, you could still go with the old program, and pay $200 to upgrade Photoshop and $80 each year to upgrade Lightroom. Why would you want that? That would cost you $360 over 2 years! This will cost $240 over two years, with constant updates.
If you're not a professional, you can still "buy" Lightroom for $149. But if you can't afford $9.99 a month, how professional are you?
The price of one new lens would pay for 10 years of Photoshop and Lightroom.
On the contrary - I'd happily subscribe if it were $0.01/month. Otherwise... nope.
Well, that's nice.
It's not worth it to me to hand over that much control of my tools over to a corporation. That gives them license to jack you around whenever they want (and they will--it's basically inevitable), even if it starts out seeming like a "good deal".Companies like to put things in license agreements that aren't legally enforceable.
Why would I want constant updates? I only upgrade software when there's a clear benefit.
--Eric