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Adobe Warns Customers of Potential Legal Action for Using Older Versions of Creative Cloud Apps
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Well I was looking for a reason to stop spending 60 bucks a month on something I use for freelance work ... Now i have it. I can freelance using LumaFusion or FCPX at this point moving forward.
Pretty glad at this point that I never really went into the whole adobe suite.
No. The issue is that none of this is the customer's problem at all and Adobe has the nerve to try and make it the customer's problem.
So glad I made the decision to quit photography as a hobby entirely at the end of 2017, choosing instead to spend my time/money on other pursuits. Today I’m happy using my XS Max and Google Photos for “good enough” snapshots, while re-allocating money on travel and athletic-related activities instead. What kicked off this change? Early retirement forced me to reconsider everything and Adobe’s subscription model (along with several others) were a red-flag. Would I have done similar had their software remained under an ownership model? Can’t say. However, my only 3 remaining subscriptions are Netflix, Spotify and Amazon Prime.
there is the option to export as Ai or SVG which can be opened in Ai, not sure how well those two options work, though.
you can’t export as an Ai file you would have to do a work around with an SVG file.
I hear ya. One of the side benefits of the digital age is that concerts are becoming popular again. I think thats great for fans & directly benefits the artist as well. Record companies had a notorious history of shafting musicians on their cut of album sales. So in a way, it’s good for the artists that the focus has shifted to concerts again.
So until there is a way to move back and forth seamlessly, I would not consider it a viable alternative.
I care with Adobe like I care with Corel Draw. Some time ago I had to uninstall Adobe CC apps from my mother's laptop. I had to connect the internet, update Creative Cloud after entering the uninstall utility, recover her password, log in and finally I could uninstall Adobe CC apps and the Creative Cloud app.
How is a company going to enforce that license though with software that doesn't dial home and was sold on physical media? If they can't enforce it, then I think my ownership is real enough, and I have bought plenty of software that qualifies.
It would seem to make more sense to stick to Lightroom Classic CC + Photoshop CC for $10 per month than buying Capture One for $300.
Yeah I just re-subbed for the photography plan @ $10/mo since photography is getting to be a lot more serious of an endeavor for me. But UGH Adobe Lightroom CC on the ipad (2018 12” pro updated ios/lr cc) is a mess. In the space of 5 mins it crashed to home screen like 5 times. I wasn’t culling or anything, just marking/flagging about 100 images shot during Mother’s Day get togethers. For a professional app that wants professional photographers paying for massive cloud storage amounts, crashing in 100ish image catalogs is laughable.
Fast Raw Viewer ($20) and Luminar 3 ($80) are the mainstays for my workstation in the office, recently. Even with a last gen i7, 32GB of ram and a 1070 Ti GPU lightroom cc classic takes a year and a half to render previews (b/c i can’t stand that 1 sec delay it takes to render while tabbing through the catalog)
and catalogs, ugh. Being able to just cull and edit from on the memory card then shove into my backup drive folders is making me think of just removing adobe altogether. And using the excellent Darkroom/Affinity Photo on ios.
Adobe is becoming expensive sluggish bloatware. And they can eat me, I’m going to keep CS6 for when I need it, litigation be damned. lol.
Adobe warned subscription users, not retail ones.
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Adobe did not say they would sue you themselves.
A class action suit against Adobe is almost inevitable from this. The lawyers are going to have a field day.
Da vinci Resolve or Avid? Resolve 16 has some nice new features, even the free version is very usable.
Avid costs more than CS6, as I expected. But Resolve looks well priced if video is not your main thing.
I think that’s OK, this is about the CC apps. If not they should have notified us users of the old CS versions.
This is partly a scare tactic to get users to update/upgrade to. Ever more expensive licenses.
I’ll never touch Adobe again after OS 10.15 is released and it breaks 32 bit apps.
As it is I’ve been using Affinity Photo/Designer and I like them, even with the learning curve.
Looking forward to their page layout app.
Whoa now I'm worried. When I try to launch Photoshop, it gives me 2 version options, 19 and 20. I'm scared to un-install one of them because it might un-install both, so ... I end up never using photoshop anyway. I'm pretty hooked in to Lightroom, tho, so I guess I'll just keep paying the adobe tax
Ha ha, Pagemaker... There's a blast from the past.
Understood re the legacy behaviour, it wasn't so much the behaviour, more how buggy it seemed to be even when grappling with the new way it worked. All sorts of little issues. It all felt really bodged. I just gave it up as a bad job and switched back to 2015. I'll probably have another go soon and download the latest one. Perhaps it's a smoother experience now.
I have noticed a few issues in InDesign as well too - the align palette seems somewhat broken but that's harder to just switch back from...
We all knew Adobe would get fat and complacent with the subscription model and we weren't wrong...
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I tend to agree, when I queried it all with their support dept there suddenly didn't seem to be an issue with running any previous versions - they even offered me a download link to a previous one...