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Adobe Tests Doubling the Price of Photography Plan With Photoshop and Lightroom
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I was gonna pay them their usual $120/year. Now they can have 0, glad they figured out how to lose $10 when trying to find $20. I’ll find near-equivalent options without significant effort. Funny, had they tried $12 I wouldn’t have noticed.
I expected this fire to rain down upon me and it brings me joy.
Yeah yeah, I addressed this just a few posts down, still on the first page of comments. And again, there are a lot of cheaper alternatives that are pretty good that are coming to market like I mentioned above. Cancel your service and migrate your catalog to one of these promising startups.
Yeah, there are a lot of alternatives out there, Like Capture One that people seem to enjoy. People should go use that instead if they want to get Adobe's attention and send a message that they don't care about cloud storage. Maybe they will never have to come back. Being serious. I would love for a smaller developer to compete more. I love using Affinity's software on my Mac/iPad. But you know what? People were insanely pissed off when they switched to subscription only everything, and Adobe has only massively increased their revenues since then. They probably have numbers that many people are just using it with storage already, and as I said in a later post, they probably were going to raise prices anyway and are testing to see if this is the best way to go by splitting the difference in declining cloud costs and increasing development costs. Now we'll probably end up with a $15/mo standard plan and a $25/mo 1TB plan, lol. $20.
You caught me! I've been lurking in the shadows on MacRumors for 11 years with 10,000 posts just so that I can shill for them using gorilla PR tactics. Boom! I'm also "the Russians" everybody talks about on the TV. Be scared.
Finally a sane person. I have the same thing just for freelance side work, and my work also pays for a license for my work Mac. It pays for itself so fast!
Yeah yeah, I addressed this just a few posts down, still on the first page of comments. And again, there are a lot of cheaper alternatives that are pretty good that are coming to market like I mentioned above. Cancel your service and migrate your catalog to one of these promising startups.
There is a major difference between software and hardware. I'm really reluctant to expend money on software. Why? Warranty, that's why. The software is the only industry that offers you no warranty at all. If your expensive camera broke, there's a manufacturer behind that will fix or replace it for free. Software fail? 3 hours editing on Photoshop gone? Lightroom erased your entire library? Call Adobe and try to get a refund...ask Dave Cooper that is suing them for 250k.
Also, there is ownership. That expensive camera can be sold when you not longer need it, or you can keep it and use until you die, you can gift it, donate it. With software, you never own anything. You are renting a service that can or can't be available in the future. In iOS/Mac we recently had the case of Ulysses, that after sell both iOS and Mac versions of his software, changed course, made it obsolete and started selling a subscription for a new version offering zero refunds...
Just last week, I was looking at my iOS purchases. Almost 70% of my purchased apps are no longer available even for download. What a waste of money.
Proprietary clouds, file formats and subscriptions needs to be avoided at all cost. Once you bite, you are a prisoner for the rest of your life and you will need to pay what they want...
Most people won’t I fear. This is why subs are so sh!tty.
I think this explains a good bit of the anger. You used to be able to buy Photoshop, and use it for several years. If you only upgraded every second or third cycle, it was cheaper than the $9.99/month subscription. So now, it's WAY more expensive than the purchased solution.
In theory, the annual updates would provide some value to offset that, but they've been so weak I haven't even bothered to install them.
Didn't Adobe promise they wouldn't do this exact thing (jack prices way up) when they went to the subscription?
I’m fine with just organizing photos myself and using the Photos app for a small collection of photos for RAW editing and something like Pixelmator Pro for layers and local adjustments. It’s clear that tying yourself to any one DAM is a dead end and will just leave you disappointed. They’re all dying or going subscription only with never ending price hikes. Lightroom Classic used to be 150 dollars. Now it’s 240 a year. Capture One probably won’t stay perpetual for long.
What you're saying is always going to be true though. Software is always a license and never owned. OS updates almost always break things, given enough time. Development to fix things costs actual money that companies have to pay workers along with healthcare and retirement. The world isn't magical. And is it a waste of money if you got use out of it? That's like saying you used a camera for four years and it broke beyond repair outside of warranty, so the whole purchase was just a waste. Everything breaks eventually. Everything stops working. Nothing is permanent. Not one thing.
Just wait until Apple switches from Intel in the next year or two. People are going to lose their minds at how much software and hardware becomes obsolete in the next five years. It's going to be like the finger snap at the end of Infinity War.
Sadly, Lightroom mobile is a strong product and I feel a lot of people aren't willing to give it up.
These are PROFESSIONAL TOOLS and should cost as such. I never hear people complaining that a good table saw is $900+ or a decent camera can be over $3000. Anyone who is complaining was probably pirating Photoshop to begin with and I have zero sympathy. Affinity Photo is $50 and its fantastic.
Huh? There’s many alternatives. You don’t even need to edit photos anyways, just get a Fuji and use the film presets.
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They still have a 5 dollar mobile plan with 100GB. If it had the desktop version too it would be a great deal.
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I think the price is just coming back down to earth. The photography deal started as a promotion and was never meant to last. It was too cheap compared to 19.99 standalone apps.
Wait until this fall when macOS "INSERT DESERT NAME HERE" ships, sunsetting 32 bits apps and killing lot of Adobe software among others, that would be End Game
I far prefer Thanos' offer of 50% odds than what Tim's proposing.
They don't care about the shareholders.
Much like communism, shareholders are a red herring. When was the last time shareholders were able to whack the C level executives or the board members.
This is all about the stock price - and the executive compensation that is tied to it.
See ya!
I’m a casual user and that was the right price point for me. Double is not.
They are going to find out what “price elasticity “ means.
I’m a casual user and that was the right price point for me. Double is not.
They are going to find out what “price elasticity “ means.
The n about a week they’ll announce new pricing of 12.99/mo. No refunds to early adopters.
Adobe today quietly debuted new pricing for its Photography bundle, which has long been available for $9.99 per month. Starting today, Adobe's website is listing a price tag of $19.99 per month, which is double the previous price.
The bundle includes access to Photoshop CC, Lightroom CC, and Lightroom Classic, and is aimed at photographers. In a statement provided to PetaPixel, Adobe said that it is testing new pricing tiers.
Most users appear to be seeing the updated pricing on the Adobe website, but there is a hidden section of the site where one can still purchase the Photography plan for $9.99 per month.
The new plan does offer 1TB of storage instead of 20GB of storage, but for those who do not use Adobe storage, the new pricing doubles the cost with no added benefit.
It is not clear if Adobe is planning permanent pricing changes for its Photography plan or if prices are going to change for existing subscribers in the future. If you previously signed up for the Photography option, you're likely paying $9.99 per month at the current time.
Adobe offers other plans, pricing a single app at $20.99 and access to all apps at $52.99 per month, but it has offered the lower-cost $9.99 per month Photography plan option since 2013.
Article Link: Adobe Tests Doubling the Price of Photography Plan With Photoshop and Lightroom
I’ve been using Adobe products since the very beginning. If they double the rate on me; then I’m out of there! Besides, as much as I like using Lightroom, it has never been easy to post content links on the web.
LOL, I’m on CS3 and Mavericks. Both work perfectly well, and not full of fluff features of the newer versions (app and os).