It's $19.99 until June 25, then goes up to $29.99. No secrets, it's right there on Adobe's membership page.
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Adobe Releases New Creative Cloud Apps
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As a student, getting the full Master Collection as part of tuition cost and letting me use it for profitable use post-graduation was very nice.
If you miss a payment on a lease, you lose access to it. If you're just starting out, you might want to invest in a cash payment and not have to worry. Especially as Adobe is running out of ideas (fewer nifty updates per release compels fewer people to spend money, so conjure up a lease licensing scheme and voila... free income and no real effort ever has to be put into it by Adobe ever again.)
Remember, it is a lease - not an actual purchase. It phones home and if it sees you're on the naughty list, you are SOL.
Online drive storage will be even more fun when people realize leasing isn't so hot to trot after all...
Adobe has taken away my choice as to how and when I can buy an upgrade.
I used to wait and buy every other update. That was every 36 months (18 month cycle for upgrades). My price was $399. That comes to $11 and change per month and my software never stopped working.
Now they want me to pay $50 a month and if I decide not to pay then the software breaks.
You know Vinny the Weasel had a similar plan where as I pay him protection money and "he don't let nutin' happen to me...capish?"
How is this a bargain again?
I used to wait and buy every other update. That was every 36 months (18 month cycle for upgrades). My price was $399. That comes to $11 and change per month and my software never stopped working.
Now they want me to pay $50 a month and if I decide not to pay then the software breaks.
You know Vinny the Weasel had a similar plan where as I pay him protection money and "he don't let nutin' happen to me...capish?"
How is this a bargain again?
Ouch.
As an old time catalog house photographer, I recognize low budget clientele when I see it.
He certainly needs access to all of adobe's latest and greatest cloud only applications to do that kind of work
I'm surprised by some dudes here who really thinks that Adobe, having spent so much money in establishing all the infrastructure of the software leasing program, is actually helping them to save money, instead of maximizing income
Businesses that maximize income should be punished and boycotted. /s
That's the best summation of this Software As Service scam that I've ever read.
Exactly. And people think its only the gov't that wants to be Big Brother.
Having your life permanently umbilical tied to the internet should scare the crap out of everyone
Amen. At this point, if I can't post-process my images to look good with the tools I have, then it's my photography that needs tweaking, not my digital darkroom. I'll use CS6 until I can't anymore, and I hope that's a good, long while.
Screw you, Adobe.
It's interesting that adobe does not know how to make dollars to euro conversions, cause I might be wrong, but since when a dollar is worth more than an euro?
Users in Europe have to pay more for the same service than in the US???
That's the cost of doing busines in Europe. They get to charge all that extra VAT to prop up the dullards in your society.
Glad that I got hold of one of the last boxed CS6 Master Collections, will stick with that until Adobe goes back to traditional software licenses.
I will never ever lease software when there's no technical practicability behind like here. I like to own my software.
And for all you hair-splitters, of course I don't own the software directly but an infinitely lasting license to use it, which is pretty much the same for an user.
Betting 2 days tops until CC is "available" on the dark side of the internet.
I will never ever lease software when there's no technical practicability behind like here. I like to own my software.
And for all you hair-splitters, of course I don't own the software directly but an infinitely lasting license to use it, which is pretty much the same for an user.
Betting 2 days tops until CC is "available" on the dark side of the internet.
IMO this move not only encourages more piracy of previous Creative Suites, but may even make it easier to pirate the new ones since a pirate only needs to pay for a month when new apps come out in order to download all the apps to be picked apart into pirated, usable offline versions.
I'm not condoning piracy, but this new payment models is all wrong for many reasons, not least of all that that you're paying a lot of money to not own software, and if you weren't one of those people that immediately upgraded to the latest Creative Suite (some people would only buy every second version) then you may end up paying more money thanks to the lack of real flexibility.
What people really needed as a Creative Suite pricing option was the ability to pay monthly for X months until they owned a full copy of the software; e.g - it would expire if the subscription was cancelled, but if you completed it you'd get a lifetime registration code. That would be the kind of thing that would lower the huge barrier to entry and potentially gain new customers, but this cloud system is even more likely than ever to scare people away to third party or open source solutions that they decide are good enough.
I'm not condoning piracy, but this new payment models is all wrong for many reasons, not least of all that that you're paying a lot of money to not own software, and if you weren't one of those people that immediately upgraded to the latest Creative Suite (some people would only buy every second version) then you may end up paying more money thanks to the lack of real flexibility.
What people really needed as a Creative Suite pricing option was the ability to pay monthly for X months until they owned a full copy of the software; e.g - it would expire if the subscription was cancelled, but if you completed it you'd get a lifetime registration code. That would be the kind of thing that would lower the huge barrier to entry and potentially gain new customers, but this cloud system is even more likely than ever to scare people away to third party or open source solutions that they decide are good enough.
You're joking, right? Premiere had lept past FCP7 a while ago and if you can't recognize that, then your Adobe hate is blinding you. And this is coming from a long time Final Cut editor.
Yes, and they are forgetting that US sales taxes are charged on top of the retail price, so for me the price comes out to $438. Looks like it is cheaper in Germany.
???
I get the 19.99 works out to 239.88 a year part... but can't follow the math where it became less than 6 dollars perpetually?... It seems like you're calculating the present value of a perpetuity? but in that case it would be 239$ perpetually?...
Maybe I am just confused
Sorry, in Europe we use the dot instead of the comma for separating thousands, so it is 6 thousand dollar.
Amen to that. While there are a few features of Photoshop CC that I would like to try out, to me, it's not worth the $50/month I would have to pay when CS6 is perfectly fine for me. I'm completely happy with my LR4 + CS6 workflow when I process my images.
I don't even know what the new features are, and I seriously don't care to. I use Aperture to fine tune the RAW images, and CS6 for the rest. If I'm not happy with that, then it's my own fault.
I don't even know what the new features are, and I seriously don't care to. I use Aperture to fine tune the RAW images, and CS6 for the rest. If I'm not happy with that, then it's my own fault.
Exactly. People get too caught up in having the latest in and greatest. CS6 still works perfectly fine for me, and I imagine it will continue to do so in the coming years. Like you said, if I at some point get unhappy with CS6 as a tool, then it's certainly something I need to change with my photography.
I was originally on board with CC then I thought to myself. What if I quit freelance and either get a job or do something else? If I ever want to go back and tinker on old projects I'm screwed. I don't want to shell out $600 bucks a year for something I'm only going to use for pleasure or small jobs.
Nope.. I guess the trick is to never give up Cs6 and never to open and save old projects in CC. In fact, Let's never use CC at all!
Nope.. I guess the trick is to never give up Cs6 and never to open and save old projects in CC. In fact, Let's never use CC at all!
Or you could save an .idml version of each new project you make in CC if you're using InDesign, or an older version of Illustrator if that's your main app.
There are other ways. Absolutely worst case scenario, you can rent the single app that you need for one month, and sort your files out in that period.
I'm not super pleased about this transition by Adobe, but I'm a freelance designer and I rely on their products until something better comes along.
Financial worries aside, and on a positive note, I am looking forward to trying out several of the things I wouldn't have had access to with CS Standard. Muse for one, and I'm curious to have a look at typekit. It has opened up a lot of opportunities for me to learn some new apps and get some new skills.
