Then I’d say I have a bad luck on adobe end and I fail to notice it in time. It is almost two years after I notice the price change and check my bank statement.
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Adobe Tests Doubling the Price of Photography Plan With Photoshop and Lightroom
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I highly recommend Capture One Pro and Affinity by Serif as a replacement 
I highly recommend Capture One Pro and Affinity by Serif as a replacement
So which of them replaces Lightroom?
I highly recommend Capture One Pro and Affinity by Serif as a replacement
Did that go wrong?
Something weird happened there.
just wanted to say thanks for the Affinity recommendation sorry if this is a double post.
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We’re getting subscriptioned to death.
You are already. It’s called hunger.
[doublepost=1557068635][/doublepost]All, is there an app that allows LR style asset management that is shared? LR uses SQLite and I want to have shared edits. All files reside on my own server that has WebDAV and other capabilities. So far, I use LR on a local catalog that is shared out using Seafile. Thanks.
Actually ... I wasn't complaining about being taxed ... I was simply offering a possible explanation for the small price increase the OP had observed, since I had looked at my online invoices and the sales tax had been added.
My state has started having merchants collect sales tax on many online purchases last year.
Capture One Pro. Affinity Photo is a Photoshop competitor. Capture One Pro is so good for photo editing features that I rarely even touch Photoshop.
I find the DAM to be pretty close to Aperture's DAM and that was back at Capture One 9. That's one of the reasons why I went with Capture One Pro. It's probably a half step behind Aperture's DAM, but it's a lot stronger and faster than a lot of the other integrated DAMs built into photo management/editing programs. It's been a while since I've used Aperture so I don't remember what my pros and cons were, but I specifically looked for something that felt like a cousin of Aperture and Capture One Pro was closest to that.
I've upgraded Capture One Pro every year because I liked the direction it was going. I'm not sure if the DAM has changed significantly. I'm sure the current Capture One Pro 12 has some features that I'm using and didn't have back at Capture One Pro 9, but I wouldn't be able to identify them.
Adobe is the industry standard. I imagine therefore, Professional photographers will happily still pay this. Well I say happily, no one likes paying more but when it comes to money you will see a reluctance to change workflows. What it will do though is see keen amateurs continue to seek alternatives as mentioned in this thread. Adobe must have confidence that this raise will not harm their business as the subscription model cannot have harmed it when it was introduced.
The thing is that I'd be willing to bet that professional photographers are actually a really small slice of their customer base.
In any case, I'm not surprised that they want to raise the price on their photography plan. I'm actually surprised it didn't happen sooner. The photography plan was the one anomaly in their product pricing roadmap. None of their other key products come in any cheaper than $21/month at regular pricing. If you even just subscribe to Photoshop alone outside of the Photography plan it's $11 more than if you got it bundled together with Lightroom!
I'm not averse to Adobe charging a premium on quality products. For the most part they make some really great software products, but most of the time they're way more than I need. I work with lots of people who do indeed make full use of pro grade products and I have to be able to open their files so I'm stuck paying for a Creative Cloud subscription just so I can open files. If I made full use of Adobe products, I'd happily pay their asking price, but I barely scratch the surface of their products. I'm locked into an expensive subscription because of the people around me.
That's the cost of doing business though. I'll complain, but not too much. I gotta keep the trains running on time.
Has anyone given Photoshop Elements a spin? How much of Photoshop do you get with Photoshop Elements?
Does anyone know any good alternatives to Adobe Acrobat Pro ?
Something that can . . .
Edit Text
Edit and Add images
Combine and extract pages
Reduce files size
Am looking at PDF expert but am wondering if there are other better alternatives?
Something that can . . .
Edit Text
Edit and Add images
Combine and extract pages
Reduce files size
Am looking at PDF expert but am wondering if there are other better alternatives?
You are very right. I hate (but also subscribe to) their CC package products and that legacy software is so sluggish, unmodern and no fun Ux and UI, but I have to use it, since it’s a standard in my business.
But the numbers and the stock price are just giving adobe the feedback, that their products are the best in market.
Thankfully I hold adobe stocks since the time I knew the subscription model will shower adobe with money all over.
Before that, most people didn’t pay for adobe software. But nowadays you have to.
Such a shame. They were talking it up so much too. DAMs are harder to do than it appears.
I have to say that nothing beats Preview in speed and convenience. Im yet to see the Mac (I don't have iMacPro) that runs Adobe Acrobat smoothly and without spinning Beach Ball of Death
I’m moving off of ALL Adobe products. PDF Expert is great. I’m done with Lightroom.....Adobe is a money sucking enterprise of pure greed.
