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Adobe Tests Doubling the Price of Photography Plan With Photoshop and Lightroom

Not-Sure said:
All you need to do is to download the apps, and turn your wifi off when opening them, turn it on again and that is it. No need to subscribe or anything.
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Yeah just pull it out timely and you are safe – not.
 
Has anybody looked at OnOne Softwares Photo Editing Software? I'm starting to really like it now. No subscriptions.
 
2013.1 said:
They would freak out if they had no choice but to rent their lenses.
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Lensrentals is making a killing doing that very thing. All the lenses I have were rented from them and then I just bought them outright at a discounted price.
 
In Austria / Europe Adobe CC it's not $52,99 a month, it's € 59,99 per month = 67 USD per month
 
macduke said:
The comments are going to be filled with a lot of upset users.

Photographer: Doesn't blink at spending $1500-5000 on a new lens, or $3000-5000 on a new camera body, or $300-800 on a new tripod, or $400-900 on a new flash, or $150 a pop on new UHS-II SD cards, or $800-3000 on a Thunderbolt RAID setup and SSDs, or $3000-7000 on a new Mac, or $800-2000 on a second and third display, or thousands of dollars on lighting equipment and backdrops and travel and paying models and grips.

Also photographer: Freaks out at having to pay Adobe a couple hundred bucks a year to edit, organize, share, and store all of their photos.

Y'all suck.
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Thing is... those are all one time purchases. Big, one time purchases. So $240 a year (plus tax) isn't something to sneeze at when you're budgeting for a new $3000 lens.

Especially when there are now equal or better options... that are one time purchases.
 
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actually a lot of people are now charging for what used to be free on the internet including Apple for their News section of their app. Nothing is free any more.
 
prasand said:
Your situation and this situation are completely different. You were not in an annual contract like all other people on the Adobe Photography Plan are. Therefore you were subject to price changes, anyone on an annual contract (all Photography Plan people are) and paying month to month, their fees are locked in for the duration of their contract.

https://www.adobe.com/legal/subscription-terms.html

Your contract terms literally conveys that you are subject to price changes. See the difference between “Month to month” then scroll down and look at “Annual contract, paid monthly” which is what the Photography Plan is. Only renewal rates at the end of the year contract can be changed with the photography plan.
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I don't know why you assume I am going on a month to month contract, as I clearly sign up an annual contract with Adobe when starting the subscription. My bank statement clearly shows Adobe raises the price mid-year from $24.99 to $27.49. I understand the sub price is subject to change, but I was shocked that they changed the price during the contract without any email notification or anything. Maybe price update was up on the website, I never know.
 
mytdave said:
I switched to Pixelmator a long time ago, never looked back.
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If you can do all you need to do with Pixelmator..... you never really needed Photoshop.

While Pixelmator is amazing and a great piece of software, it does not compare with PS.

travelsheep said:
I made the big switch last year.

Now running FCPX, Pixelmator Pro, Affinity Designer and Affinity Publisher.

Never looked back.
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Now that is a complete line up that can do most of the stuff, still not perfect but better than Pixelmator alone.

Personally prefere Affinity Photo to Pixelmator Pro.
 
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stylinexpat said:
actually a lot of people are now charging for what used to be free on the internet including Apple for their News section of their app. Nothing is free any more.
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To be fair, nothing is free in the first place. But well, guess the golden era is gone.
 
Adobe is such a greedy company... ever since they bought Macromedia years ago I knew they just cared about the bottom line, not the tools they were providing for so much amazing work in the world.
[doublepost=1556890594][/doublepost]Serious question: do you guys think we will see companies move away from subscription models? or just more and more? is it just a trend or is it the way forward forever? Or will we see more and more open software? I want your insights please
 
Pafoofnik said:
I think Adobe CC subscribers went a long way in helping create the world they are currently in by simply subscribing. I stayed with the CS6 suite and Lightroom 6 because I don't do software subscriptions. The next version of MacOS will break CS6 so I either stay with Mojave the rest of my life or find a Photoshop replacement. I own Capture One, so I can live without Lightroom and I find little thrill in upgrading MacOS just to get 10 new emojis which is about all Apple does anymore anyway.
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As far as I know only InDesign would stop working and could run inside a virtual machine.
 
Kabeyun said:
At this point is there anything Adobe does or makes that doesn’t have better value somewhere else?
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Adobe is basically the “MS Office” of photography/image editing software. Even a lay person knows the Photoshop brand. Add on all the professionals sticking with Adobe, the ones hurting are the amateurs/hobbyists. Sure, you can go for the alternatives, but when you start looking around, people are sticking with Adobe.

Consumers are literally pushed into two extreme sides. Either spend the money like the professionals do, or be contend with things like Photos. The in-between of “Pro-summers” are being left behind.
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binney said:
Has anybody looked at OnOne Softwares Photo Editing Software? I'm starting to really like it now. No subscriptions.
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I’m trying to use on1. Its output is actually pretty good, but the browser and management part is a bit clunky and not even as smooth as Lightroom (and I have a fairly old Lightroom 5).
 
McCrab said:
Capture One Pro v12 is already better than Lightroom

Affinity Photo almost there
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The people behind Capture One Pro are also a little bit greedy and they do not support all cameras i.e. they do not support Hasselblad.

This thread showed me Photo Mechanic and as a hobbyist I probably will go in future with Photo Mechanic to fast view / cull photos and Affinity / Pixelmator to edit them.
 
JetBrains is the only company I've seen that does subscription right. Whenever they do a major update the previous version becomes the fallback version that you own. If you ever cancel you can continue using the last fallback version for as long as you want.
 
ejpeg said:
This. I'm a graphic designer and I pay my bills using Adobe software. I pay $52 a month, but it pays for itself during the first hour of usage alone. Don't tell them but I'd pay $100 without complaint.
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What would you do with your old cc files if Adobe rose the price to 500 a month or 50 per job. Adobe knows who you are sending your pdfs to by the way. It tracks unique file codes inside your customers pdf viewer and sends them to Adobe. Adobe does a lot more like that. Essentially it's a data company.
 
I’m out, haven’t invested too heavily in adobe glad of that.

As soon as I can I’ll cancel and go with capture1. Already was too expensive for the shotty performance you get.
 
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