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Adobe Takes 40% Off Creative Cloud All Apps for Your First Year

I used Adobe Audition for a year and a half, and almost for the same price of the subscription I bought Logic Pro.
 
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One more post full of false substitution options for Adobe products. Meanwhile, a gazillion of professionals on YouTube continue to use Adobe products. I only saw 1 video recently somebody stated he switched to Affinity.
 
Apple Knowledge Navigator said:
People discussing value should consider their needs in any argument.

It’s all very well saying “perpetual license”, but many users see the benefits of an on-going subscription model where you get continued investment.

For photographers, the Photography Plan is only £10 a month and that gets you Lightroom CC and Classic, Photoshop (all on desktop and mobile), cloud storage, Adobe Fonts (of which there are thousands and which can be used on software outside of Adobe suite), and portfolio. Even if you were only an amateur and didn’t generate income from photography, £10 a month for a hobby is peanuts compared to others. You could easily spend that in Starbucks on one visit!

I would say that’s good value for money considering that the software is continually updated and the access to all the additional features you have.

As the saying goes, “Your mileage may vary”, so let’s not complain about the price of things when you’re not using all the product.
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Agreed - their Photography bundle is WELL worth it.

I've always wanted to get the whole collection (I currently pay separately for Acrobat), but $36 / month is still too expensive for me 🤷‍♂️

I'd do $25 / month if it were the regular price, but the "low, low introductory price of just ... " approach does not work for me.
 
and then makes it impossible to cancel or charges you fees for canceling early, either way ripping you off.
 
Like a few other people here, I'm on the Photography plan as I'm a hobbyist photographer. It's typically $10 a month but if you shop around you can either get it for less– NewEgg frequently has the one-year subscription for $80. I don't use their cloud storage mainly because I already have my own, but knowing they would also use my media to train AI is another reason to actively avoid it.

I'd switch to Affinity but a couple of factors keep me with Adobe:

1. Lots more resources for learning how to do things in Photoshop compared to Affinity and other competitors
2. The plan includes Adobe Fonts and Adobe Express (not PS Express, but the mobile app for graphic design stuff), which I also use because every now and then I do some simple graphic design stuff (designing invitations, making simple infographics)
3. My main reason for staying with the plan: I have not been able to find an adequate substitute for Lightroom. The closest alternative, Darktable, feels very clunky to me. None of the other alternatives that I've tried seem to come anywhere close.

I have access to a whole bunch of fonts and I could easily learn Affinity Photo to do the simple adjustments/graphic design stuff I do on PS/Express, so if somebody has a decent alternative to Lightroom I'm all ears.

EDIT: A while ago I had to cancel my plan. I chatted with a support member and just lied to them. I told them I was going through a divorce and could not afford the cancellation fee and they waived those fees. Don't feel bad about lying to Adobe support so that they don't charge you the ridiculous cancellation fees.
 
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Adobe can't afford for me installing anything from Adobe suite. There is simply no amount of riches in the Universe they can offer me.
 
jimthing said:
Acrobat Pro is their stupidest pricing ever invented.
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MacLawyer said:
The thing it offers that its competitors do not is the ability to straighten and optimize images.

If you guys know of another app that does that please reply!
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Many PDF apps do those functions (straighten, optimise).

Ones I've used include Nitro (formally called PdfPen Pro; available in Setapp), Kofax, PDF Expert, and many others.

The reason Acrobat Pro is good, is because it does PDF edits 100% to the PDF spec the best (given it's of course originally an Adobe standard, before becoming open) along with very reliable OCR. Other PDF apps, including Preview, can do editing to various levels but not always as reliably. But the price is ridiculous, making others a necessity unless you live to edit PDFs continually.
 
Adobe is one of those companies I try to stay away from... greedy af and their code-base seems to be a pieced together junk yard of libraries by some low-skilled developers in India. The OCR function of Acrobat is proof of that... it's not just really bad OCR, also the whole Acrobat was apparently single-thread until a year ago. Run an OCR job and you can't use Acrobat anymore. Wouldn't be an issue if it would be fast... but it runs slow regardless of the HW... even on the gaming rig the 5900X didn't get it done quickly. GPU acceleration with that RTX4000 that could finish the job in a matter of seconds? Nope. Gotta wait 5+ minutes...
It's ridicolous how the big companies now push AI yet they are incompetent when it comes to basic things.

Their only good subscription is the photography bundle... Sole reason for that is, that they know that's the only option to keep the hobby photographers as customers.

Still a shame Apple messed up Aperture and then ditched it completely. It was superior to Lightroom in many aspects... Nowadays have to go with CaptureOne to be anywhere close.
 
Yeah too late adobe. They seem to be desperate to replace the people who cancelled lol
 
Capeto said:
No need to resort to lazy, racist stereotypes. Their clunky code is proudly written in Sunnyvale, CA.
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Wasn't a stereotype but rather the typical decisionmaking strategy of bean counting companies outsourcing to India... Instead of hiring the actual skilled guys that are already a fraction of the cost of someone in the western hemisphere, let's try to safe some more $ which gives you the underpayed or inexperienced guys that will probably get the job done, but not with clean code...
If Adobe is coding all that in CA... well they probably should outsource...
 
I recently haggled the student deal for £90 per year. If the next year is going to be more I'll certainly be cancelling.
 
I work for a school and get it for free through the school but would never pay for it. Especially when they hide the cancellation fee. It's 40% off until you decide to try and cancel it and then you have to pay off the contract at the full price.
 
To be fair, a contract is a contract. If a year has been agreed by seller and customer, a year must be adhered to. How mad would you be if your mobile device providee half way through the year decided to cancel the contract?
 
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