Adobe's Black Friday Sale Takes 50% Off Creative Cloud Pro for Your First Year

[cjsuk]

Find alternative apps at all costs!

Honestly I wish I could but I have 2 dead people's Lightroom Classic catalogues and my own one totalling about 4TB.

Plus there isn't anything else that does decent catalogue, actually works properly, has the same quality editing tools and is compatible with 2 dead people's lightroom catalogues.

What I want is to pay once for Lightroom only like the old days. But it's about monthly recurring revenue now.

But it's a beer and a half a month in cash so meh.

 

[Ursadorable]

Dating myself here, but I remember when QuarkXpress was the best. No king rules forever...

It was, except it used to crash all the time. I lost count how many times I've lost progress to a QuarkXpress crash. You had to save often.

 

[Ursadorable]

It’s kind of bananas that they’re supposedly the best there is, when their software is the crashiest and most confused suite available.

They started going downhill after they bought Macromedia, and started outsourcing their programming overseas.

 

[JohannesO]

That is a Lite edition badly designed software and they charge you a subscription if you want the full edition which is like a chihuahua version of Photoshop.

Nope. There is literally nothing that points in that direction.

In fact Affinity is the most powerful single App in the graphics design industry.

 

[cjsuk]

It was, except it used to crash all the time. I lost count how many times I've lost progress to a QuarkXpress crash. You had to save often.

Yep. That's why our old publishing team's keyboards were yellow - all the smoking to keep them calm.

 

[joshuamj]

Affinity is free, so that's where I'm going 😇

 

[therockyroad]

The gift that keeps on taking …

 

[jonnysods]

No thanks. I like having a career and I invest in having the best tools, which are all tax deductions. I get that 50% off every year on Black Friday.

Likewise I don’t beg for free gas or free train tickets when I need to visit clients or travel for work.

I have clients and a business too but I use the Affinity suite of apps and FCP for video work. I like write offs too but I also like controlling my overhead.

 

[therockyroad]

No thanks. I like having a career and I invest in having the best tools, which are all tax deductions. I get that 50% off every year on Black Friday.

You start over with a brand new account each year so that you’re a new customer?

 

[JMalone]

You start over with a brand new account each year so that you’re a new customer?

No, there is a loophole EVERYONE uses and Adobe turns a blind eye too. You downgrade to single app plan before Black Friday and then grab the full Creative Cloud Pro 50% deal on Black Friday. People have been doing this since forever. There’s no penalty if your account is over a year old.

 

[JMalone]

Nope. There is literally nothing that points in that direction.

In fact Affinity is the most powerful single App in the graphics design industry.

Sure sure.

If that was true they would not have sold themselves to Canva. That showed how much they believed in their future that they sold the company like when Macromedia sold themselves to a bigger company.

Look, we have been through this for 30 years. In the mid 90s the Paint Shop Pro guys had Adobe Derangment Syndrome. 10 years later the GIMP guys had Adobe Derangement Syndrome. Then the Macromedia guys had Adobe Derangement Syndrome. Now it’s Affinity.

 

[BB8]

im in the process of purging adobe from my life. even before i consider cost creative cloud and acrobat have been some of the most awful software i have ever used.

 

[chelsel]

I mean you gotta be kind of stupid to buy an Adobe product now, and I say that as a shareholder since I know there's a lot of stupid out there lol.

 

[Boeingfan]

Just remember, that deal is a 12 month lock in. They charge you a fee if you cancel early. I really hate Adobe.

It could be 100% off and I’d still keep walking. I’m with you re Adobe.

 

[slicktor]

How's Affinity as a photoshop replacement? I'm pretty adept in photoshop and do a lot of layering work and photo editing. Using brush tools, blending masks and etc. Bouncing back and forth from Lightroom.

Can Affinity be a one to one replacement? Is there a Lightroom x Photoshop combo that isn't adobe?

 

[Chat GPT]

I love all the competition coming after adobe (affinity, figma, etc.). While I use adobe everyday, I can't wait to switch.

You can switch already, switch to Affinity, it's free and much much better, I am a long time adobe user and I hate adobe so much, I'm so happy I switched to Affinity, however I am still keeping my adobe subscription for now, but I'm planning to cancel in a few months once I am fully used to Affinity

 

[capamac]

Been a Gimp user for maybe 20 years now. Excellent Photoshop alternative with a Mac version; tremendously capable. Www.Gimp.org.

 

[JaydenA]

OH, how nice...50% off a SUBSCRIPTION.

Not just a subscription, but one with significant cancellation penalties if you try and cancel before the full 12 months ($419.64) is consumed.

Adobe really are the scummiest company and a world leader in en********ation, and these days the open source alternatives mean you really shouldn't fall for their fine-print trap.