I'm sure this has something to do with Apple dropping support of Aperture in all future releases of MacOS starting in fall.....
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Adobe Tests Doubling the Price of Photography Plan With Photoshop and Lightroom
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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.
The whole "rent a program" is great for companies, bad for users. I don't know about the rest of you, but I have enough monthly bills to pay without having companies like Adobe reaching into my pockets. Imagine how many bills we would have to keep track of if every developer decided to follow this model.
I will always choose to buy out software rather than rent it. At the very least, they should allow you to choose between subs or buying outright. One of the reasons why I stuck with Mac is so I wouldn't have to pay a monthly fee for Premiere. I'd rather pay once for FCP.
I will always choose to buy out software rather than rent it. At the very least, they should allow you to choose between subs or buying outright. One of the reasons why I stuck with Mac is so I wouldn't have to pay a monthly fee for Premiere. I'd rather pay once for FCP.
The word "Photographer" is a little vague. You are absolutely 100% correct if by "Photographer" you mean the professionals shooting for Sports Illustrated, Time, National Geographic, etc.
However, for every one of those professionals, there are hundreds (if not thousands) of amateurs who enjoy photography with a consumer or prosumer level camera. They may have $500 to $3,000 wrapped up in all of their equipment and they don't make a dime from it because they are hobbyists. I believe they are the ones who were OK spending $120 per year on PS but they don't want to spend $240 per year on it.
There’s a reason why I have been and will continue to pirate CS6. I’m not paying a monthly subscription for this ****, especially if they’re going to raise it at will.
Adobe is seriously on thin ice with a lot of content creators these days. They need to LOWER their prices if they have any plans stay in the market long term, not increase them.
And it would be in their best interest to bring back a non-subscription version of their software. So many people would pay hundreds for that, even if it doesn’t include future updates.
And it would be in their best interest to bring back a non-subscription version of their software. So many people would pay hundreds for that, even if it doesn’t include future updates.
On the Australian site the old, cheaper plan is not hidden. It's right there beside the new expensive option. Doesn't make sense. https://www.adobe.com/au/products/photoshop-lightroom.html
Capitalism at its finest right here. “We can piss off and lose half of our subscribers, if we DOUBLE the price. More profits, shareholders will love us, and we have fewer people to keep happy!” This subscription model will continue until it’s run right into the ground—they all know that it’s not sustainable at this pace. Yet they will do it anyway, because they exist to please only shareholders.
Look at Affinity Photo on the App Store, I’ve used it professionally for 2 years now. It’s built/designed specifically for macOS.
Sweet there ARE alternatives
Thank you, good to know in the tech industry!Not everyone is a monkey to be pulled and put back into such barrels
(that's what I though of the analogy; could be my mis-interpretation)
One potato, two potato, three potato more ... how many can drop Adobe for them to reduce the score?
What is the LR alternative people are using? I was with Affinity for about two years. I finally got tired of waiting for Affinity to make DAM and had to move back to the creative cloud. I am not a pro, but I tend to edit my photos more when I use LR.
Oh yea let’s just test DOUBLING the price.
I can’t wait for that f company to die
I can’t wait for that f company to die
you're talking about downloading a trial or such yes. if Adobe hasn't spotted this already that's some shoddy work
Adobe is still a Rip-off at half the price.
Another reason why Apple should bring back Aperture, and improve it. I've used Photoshop since 1992, Illustrator since 1995. Lightroom since 2007. (I have older versions CS5 and CS6 for Lightroom) I refuse to pay a monthly fee for software that hasn't significantly improved in years. When I (and probably everyone else) keeps having the same annoying problems year after year: what is it that we're paying for? (Just this morning I clicked about a dozen times on the handles and selection points of a simple line figure just to tweak a line. In the past 20 years as screen resolution increases it gets worse and worse because the handles and points stay the same size. With 4K they'll probably disappear altogether.)
I guess my other MacBook Pro will just have to be air-gapped and left in 2017 until I can find replacements for Adobe applications.
I guess my other MacBook Pro will just have to be air-gapped and left in 2017 until I can find replacements for Adobe applications.
Adobe is taking advantage of the power of it's photo bundle, forcing their customers into a hostage situation by increasing the price. People that don't rely on these apps to make a living, like me, might say there is no better alternative of what this bundle offers, as you get an iOS app with the best RAW capture (I haven't found any app that takes that good RAW quality pictures), Lightroom that can edit all sorts of formats and photoshop that is the benchmark of all image manipulators. I did a quick research of the alternatives and didn't really find a replacement for the iOS app, capture1 is super expensive (they offer Sony and Fuji only software for 150$, but what happens if you need to edit a photo from another manufacturer) and GIMP is a no-no for me as I tried it in the past and couldn't get it to work. So, personally I'm stuck to whatever Adobe's planning for the future.
Great !Now you can pay twice as much to get half working software that you need to spend more time download bug fixes, updates and patches more often than you use the actual program!
We've used Illustrator and Photoshop since the 1990's. When they went to subscriptions, it was difficult to get our entire department updated, due to older computers and operating systems. Some machines stayed with CS6 as long as possible before transitioning to CC.
I miss being able to own the software, even with paid upgrades.
If $19.99/month sounds greedy, try $550/month for a small in-house art department!
The more you use the software, the more advantages you can find, no doubt. Mobile apps are included, some have free professional brushes. You can use all Adobe apps, not just 1 or 2.
But, that's a large monthly fee to justify to a CFO!
Younger designers find Adobe to be corporate, compared to Procreate that fits their lifestyle in a more dynamic way. At this moment, Adobe still is #1 in the marketplace by far. But, if Procreate is a one-time purchase, and you can draw your ass off on a cool iPad Pro, I think a lot of new designers will find that to be a good fit for them.
Hmmm, I guess the long-term question would be, what do they teach at the college level? Is it all Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop? Or, do they sprinkle in Procreate and Affinity. If young students are brought up on Procreate, and work in that platform for a few years, they're not going to want to re-learn their workflow on Adobe products later on.
That would be the biggest risk for Adobe, that, a new generation isn't stuck with their platform. Once they're 25-30, Adobe has lost most of them for good.
After learning Photoshop and Illustrator, I didn't want to have to re-learn everything in Corel Draw.
I miss being able to own the software, even with paid upgrades.
If $19.99/month sounds greedy, try $550/month for a small in-house art department!
The more you use the software, the more advantages you can find, no doubt. Mobile apps are included, some have free professional brushes. You can use all Adobe apps, not just 1 or 2.
But, that's a large monthly fee to justify to a CFO!
Younger designers find Adobe to be corporate, compared to Procreate that fits their lifestyle in a more dynamic way. At this moment, Adobe still is #1 in the marketplace by far. But, if Procreate is a one-time purchase, and you can draw your ass off on a cool iPad Pro, I think a lot of new designers will find that to be a good fit for them.
Hmmm, I guess the long-term question would be, what do they teach at the college level? Is it all Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop? Or, do they sprinkle in Procreate and Affinity. If young students are brought up on Procreate, and work in that platform for a few years, they're not going to want to re-learn their workflow on Adobe products later on.
That would be the biggest risk for Adobe, that, a new generation isn't stuck with their platform. Once they're 25-30, Adobe has lost most of them for good.
After learning Photoshop and Illustrator, I didn't want to have to re-learn everything in Corel Draw.