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

[Wanted797]

How is this even legal?

To offer “some” customers a higher price just because? You wouldn’t be able to do this in retail.

Sure they’re offering 1TB over 20GB but are they explaining this to customers or just presenting them with one option.

 

[warp9]

To offer “some” customers a higher price just because? You wouldn’t be able to do this in retail.

This is actually standard practice on the app store. It's called A/B Testing and it's used to find the optimal price.

 

[funjon]

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.

I'm a hobbyist photographer, still hanging on tightly to the last version of Lightroom that wasn't in CC. I don't break my camera out often enough to justify $120/yr on Lightroom. It was one thing when a new version came out every 18 months or so, and was $100 to upgrade. But sorry, I just can't.

Photographers who are making money from their work shouldn't have a huge problem with the change in pricing. It's the hobbyists who got hooked on features that are going to suffer here.

 

[bernuli]

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.

I spent 2 grand on Adobe Design Premium, which I can no longer use with current macOS. Maybe I should have bought the Windows version and that would still run on Win10.

If I had bought a lens at the same time as I bought Design premium, that lens would still be compatible wouldn't it? Or would the lens manufacturer be calling me asking for money every month?

 

[boast]

I don't see what is Affinity's answer to Lightroom. And I just didn't like using C1. Luminar 3, that someone mentioned, looked interesting but seems it is not ready to be an LR replacement (not even LR catalog importing?!)

 

[warp9]

I spent 2 grand on Adobe Design Premium, which I can no longer use with current macOS. Maybe I should have bought the Windows version and that would still run on Win10.

Last I checked, Adobe licenses come with both Mac and Windows included, CS and CC. Go to your account page and you should see both a Mac key and a Windows key.

 

[fuchsdh]

Realistically at this point if all you need is Photoshop you're only locked in by either some niche feature of PS, or exchange (you have to be able to hand off work to other designers/photographers/etc and Photoshop is cross-platform and ubiquitous.)

If people need more stuff out of the Creative Cloud, the lock-in is much more real though (there's no competition for After Effects in its niche at all, and if you need a simple one-stop solution that again is cross-platform Premiere/After Effects is impossible to get around.)

 

[richpjr]

How is this even legal?

To offer “some” customers a higher price just because? You wouldn’t be able to do this in retail.

Sure they’re offering 1TB over 20GB but are they explaining this to customers or just presenting them with one option.

All customers can still get the $9.99 price by calling Adobe. And since you brought up the 20GB vs 1TB...what Adobe has done is hide the 20GB option. The price for the 1 TB was already $20 a month. I'm glad my annual renewal just happened a week ago and renewed for $120 for the year so I have a year to think about whether I want to change or suck it up and pay.

 

[Negative287]

Well I guess it's time to pick up AlienSkin Exposure and find a way to make the most of GIMP 2.10, until somebody else gets their head out of their arse.
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Realistically at this point if all you need is Photoshop you're only locked in by either some niche feature of PS, or exchange (you have to be able to hand off work to other designers/photographers/etc and Photoshop is cross-platform and ubiquitous.)

If people need more stuff out of the Creative Cloud, the lock-in is much more real though (there's no competition for After Effects in its niche at all, and if you need a simple one-stop solution that again is cross-platform Premiere/After Effects is impossible to get around.)

Yeah but that's only because Corel is such a crappy developer!

 

[tizeye]

Have been testing alternatives - Affinity, Capture One, On One etc and while do some things great when you need layering beyond mask application and involving 2 or more photos...you need Photoshop. Closest alternative in PaintShop Pro and it's related DAM (Lightroom Alternative) software After Shot. The biggest problem with PaintShop is Corel has never offered for a MAC - where After Shot is programmed for a Mac. Don't even want to think about running in Parrallels and jumping back and forth between Apple and Windows for plug-ins.

 

[Juiceboy]

i have to pay $44 a month just to use Premier pro. For $75 a month i can get everything adobe.
It's ridiculous price to pay just for a hobby youtuber, with only 100 subscribers that i do for fun.

 

[CE3]

I'm looking at affinity now, and it looks pretty OK.

I don't mind subscriptions, because developers have to eat. It's not realistic to expect updates forever for a one-time purchase anymore. Support alone is a huge cost. I've listened to support people walk new users through a step-by-step for hours. It's crazy.

I don’t mind paying the subscription either. I love my Bridge > ACR > PS workflow. It’s great software. I paid for the full suite of CC apps since it launched until about a year ago when I scaled back to the photography plan.

An incremental price increase is one thing, doubling the price is another.

 

[MacNut]

I just checked the website and it still says $9.99

 

[Imdougurnot]

While I'm not a photographer and can't speak to the utility of Lightroom in particular, it's almost like these people view the Photography plan as barely worth what's being charged now and that doubling the price is simply outrageous, especially in the face of ever stronger competition.

Or something like that.

 

[CE3]

i have to pay $44 a month just to use Premier pro. For $75 a month i can get everything adobe.
It's ridiculous price to pay just for a hobby youtuber, with only 100 subscribers that i do for fun.

Why not use Final Cut Pro instead?

 

[lcseds]

I just checked the website and it still says $9.99

Looks like Lightroom Cloud is $9.99. The Photography plan is $19.99 which has CC. I think that plan is the issue. But they are switching storage in the plans to add "value".

 

[trssho]

I am out if the double what I am currently paying. $240 a year?? Give me a break

 

[MacNut]

Looks like Lightroom Cloud is $9.99. The Photography plan is $19.99 which has CC. I think that plan is the issue. But they are switching storage in the plans to add "value".

When I clicked buy now it still shows the photography plan at $9.99

 

[lcseds]

When I clicked buy now it still shows the photography plan at $9.99
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Confusion. If you Google Lightroom and select the Adobe website, then choose a plan, it's $19.99 for the photography plan.
So I just refreshed that page, and it was still $19.99 as the first plan shown.

Refreshed again later and it was $9.99 for the Photography plan as the middle plan listed.

Either I'm delirious or this was a short lived price increase.........

 

[Moonlight]

I run a large photographic society and so many of my members are moving to Affinity or other alternatives, this will just drive even more away.

Just try to get repeat business after give an Affinity file to a professional client.

 

[dynamojoe]

If they lose less than half their users, it's a successful test (unless you factor in the storage difference).

 

[MacNut]

I also noticed Capture One is currently 50% off.

 

[Guitar_Trance]

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.

I stopped "renewing" Adobe wares after they went on their rental plan. I keep a very capable older Mac with the last version of the Mac OS capable of running Adobe PS 6, Illustrator CS 6, etc. It does what I need them to do and I don't have to deal with Adobe's antics.

I used to upgrade every version of Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Flash... almost All of Adobe's wares. Now? If I can't download and own what I purchase then I will not comply. My older versions do exactly what I need them to.

Part off my problem is I do not use any of them on a daily basis, so it's a waste of money for me to lease and run Adobe's "Creative Cloud" suites.

I used to love Adobe. Now... go pound sand, Adobe!

 

[Fixey]

Cool, time for their users to test out ThePirateBay.

One can simply download the software free from Adobe and hack out the subscription part, you are in your right to alter any 1 or 0 on your computer.

 

[krfr]

If they raise the price, I’m out.