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

Adobe plans are like mobile plans: the pricing is a "suggestion" or a public price if you will, just to make things easier. If you call them up and make a fuss, they will give you a deal (probably). I called my mobile provider and threatened to cancel unless they cut the price in half and they did. I also did it with my credit card company and got my interest rate cut in half. I did the same with Adobe and now I pay $33/month for the full package. Not an amazing deal, but still.

They don't really care how much you pay, as long as you pay something. Consistent revenue is much more valuable than higher revenue because it's predictable and can be used for forecasting and leverage.
 
tkanyc said:
How does Affinity Photo compare with Pixelmator?
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IMO Affinity Photo is the only real contender vs Photoshop.
I have some problems with Affinity Designer, I open a lot .eps files from Shutterstock that looks very bad, break it... in Ilustrator they looks good.
But overall Affinity is a great option, I hope they continue make it better.
 
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So this is what I see now....



Photography plan
Includes Lightroom, 20GB of cloud storage, Lightroom Classic, and Photoshop.
US$9.99/mo.
Learn more › | Buy now ›

Photography plan
Includes Lightroom, 1TB of cloud storage, Lightroom Classic, and Photoshop.
US$19.99/mo.
Learn more › | Buy now ›

Guess it depends on what landing page you hit on Adobe to see what the pricing is. Jeez.
 
Big monolithic companies always shoot themselves in the foot when they let their egos drive the way they treat customers. There are already some good competitors out there, and they are starting to look much more attractive now. Free markets are self-correcting.
 
jonblatho said:
I haven't tried this using my own CC apps when I've allowed the subscription to lapse, but doesn't this quit working after like a month?
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It quits working when you subscribe so I'm not quite sure what you're trying to say here.
 
Adobe really is a POS company. If I could still pay 700 for a full copy of Photoshop I would have it, but they can shove their overpriced subscriptions. My Office subscription is worth it, but CC is a rip off if you don’t need it for your job.
 
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I pay $10. I need photoshop to make covers for my publishing business. My question is, can infinity photo do the same kind of thing? Layers for making models work together on a cover and so on?
 
krfr said:
If they raise the price, I’m out.
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That is also why Capture 1 for Sony is out for me. They have annual "upgrades" with escalating upgrade prices, from originally $49 to now $125...and you still need Photoshop for something as simple as sky replacement that C1 can't do beyond simple masking of existing sky and adjusting tonality. Forget about inserting a sky (or anything else) from a second layered photo. At $125, it was an easy decision to skip the upgrade and get the Photoplan for about the same price which includes Lightroom and Photoshop. While $125 this year who knows what C1 will be next year as they hit you annually with upgrades...just like Adobe with renewals.
 
I'm not interested in their software at 20/m. I don't use Photoshop or LR, I just use LR CC. If they phase that app out, they will phase me out
 
How many people here will publicly decry the proposed price increase then quietly continue to subscribe if the price increase goes in effect permanently?

It's why these companies get away with crap like this.
 
now i see it said:
Photoshop via subscription is a life sucking abyss. Adobe owns all your images until eternity if you ever save them out as .psd.
Subscription based photoshop is enough incentive to give up digital photography and computers forever, that's how vile it is.
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not true. many other apps can open .PSD files... like Affinity Photo.
 
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how can this be a test, let’s see if people still pay for the subscription at that price?

let do a test and try to be like apple, let’s try ripping off our costumers

:D
 
warp9 said:
This is not true. The old price of Photoshop CS Standard was $699. Annual upgrades were $199. If you add the purchase price + two upgrades, it would cost $1,097.

It would take over 9 years to break even under the current CC subscription plan, and that doesn't even include Lightroom or storage. When that 9 years ends, you would have to pay another $199 for the next version (almost 2 years under the subscription model).

The bottom line is, subscriptions are not more expensive and are often cheaper than buying outright. It just feels more expensive because you see the charge every month.
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No, it's true. I got my copy for $499. Upgrading every other cycle (4 years), total cost for 10 years was $897. It's $1200 at $9.99/month. Going up to $2400 now apparently.
And the disparity would be greater after those 10 years - $199 every four years vs. $480 / $960.
 
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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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Following your logic, you can't freak out if they raise the bread price to 10 bucks a loaf because you already spent 20k on a car? Da**** is wrong with some people
 
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