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Adobe Tests Doubling the Price of Photography Plan With Photoshop and Lightroom
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Am already at Affinity but where is the DAM part? Am I the only person here hating organizing file based solutions?
Difference is, I would OWN all those other items and I can sell them to whom ever I please at a later date, and NONE of the photo's I have taken are held hostage by someone else proprietary software.
I do NOT rent software, and I will NOT pay to release my work from a hostage situation.
I currently have this plan. It’s an immediate drop for me if they double up. I like the apps but there are lots of alternatives these days.
Pixelmator....it does everything I need for a fixed one time price. They are excellent at maintaining their software and don't gouge you.
Lightroom does not handle major cloning. Even medium cloning doesn’t go well in LR. LR does not handle layers, specific color manipulation, other than basic HSL. I do lots of things in Ps that I can’t do in LR.
I object to subscribing to software on principle. I was a sporadic user, not needing the latest and greatest and I held onto CS4 for a long time, and slowly employed alternatives where needed. InDesign would have been the biggest problem, but I had to shut down my publishing business so that decision was made for me. All I have from Adobe now is Adobe Acrobat Pro 2017 Academic, which still can be bought without a subscription. I guess I am not their target audience anyway.
That's not really the way it goes and you know it.
Photographer: reads review for a fancy new lens. Deliberates about it for 2 years; finally decides to ask the wife. Two more years pass and as he combines 2 birthdays, major anniversary and 2 christmases to finally be allowed to buy said lens. In the meantime, that camera body is getting old. Goes to sell left kidney, but realizes that he lost that back in 2013 when he made the mistake of buying a "Trash Can" Mac Pro.
In the meantime, catches "The Speech" from the wife when she sees YA monthly Adobe subscription fee on the credit card bill and reminds the Photographer that he hasn't touched any of the pics from six months when the family went to Disney .. and that her sister's husband gets just fine results from just the kiosk down at COSTCO.
You must be a terrible photographer when you need to do such heavy edits all the time. Guess I'm still to analog in this regard - More then correcting exposure, a little color correction and curves isn't needed by me. What I need heavily is the management of the images.
I am far from a terrible photographer. But I often have a vision for my images that aren’t always possible to create in camera.
Hmm this sound more like art than normal photography to me. Then heavy edits are understandable, but I guess few photographers fall into this area.
Yeah sure, for those professionals earning a living from it, the cost of Adobe CC is a drop in the ocean of their costs. But for us hobbyists, who outnumber the pros by a large number, these prices matter. I have $4,000 worth of camera equipment, and make no money from photography, and I wasn't willing to pay the $120/yr. Not because it's only $120, but because if I live another 50 years, its $6,000. And now they want to make it $12,000. That all said, I'm guessing their subscription model must be working out well if they're experimenting with doubling it. For me, I'm sick of paying rent, so have been looking at all my subscriptions, and cutting them to the bone.
This does indeed stink for those who were only doing the Photoshop/Lightroom combo but.....
The $59/month fee for the entire suite is cheaper per year than it was buying outright, if I remember correctly the entire suite was around $1500. With the current price scheme it is around $720/year and you get constant updates.
Adobe apps feel slow on MacOS unless you have top tier hardware because everything else is under-spec'd. Although if I had to buy something right now to run Adobe stuff (and was scared of Hackintosh), I would go for the iMac i9 8-core and get an external GPU; next choice would the the 10-core iMacPro.
The $59/month fee for the entire suite is cheaper per year than it was buying outright, if I remember correctly the entire suite was around $1500. With the current price scheme it is around $720/year and you get constant updates.
Adobe apps feel slow on MacOS unless you have top tier hardware because everything else is under-spec'd. Although if I had to buy something right now to run Adobe stuff (and was scared of Hackintosh), I would go for the iMac i9 8-core and get an external GPU; next choice would the the 10-core iMacPro.
With your assumptions, that is indeed how the math works out.
But start with a Student version instead and that $699 gets cut in half. Similarly, upgrade every other year and its
$199/2 years. So now we're talking about the same "3 years out" price being ~$500 instead of $1100. At five years out, its $700 and seven years its $900.
In comparison, the $9.99/mo model compares pretty close to these same benchmarks: 3 years is $360 ($140 savings), 5 years is $600 ($100 savings); 7 years is $840 ($60 savings).
Not quite on either point: second element first, the cost is perceived as less painful when its a "thousand slices" instead of a single big bill. And for the first, the point here is that it isn't $9.99/mo anymore, but now basically double that.
Thus, at this new rate, 3 years is $720 ($200 more expensive), 5 years is $1200 ($500 more), 7 years is $1680 ($780 more) ... and by 9 years, the subscription model is 4% short of literally double the lifecycle cost: $2160 vs $1100.
