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This week, we want to know if you subscribe to Adobe Creative Cloud. If you didn’t hear earlier this week, Adobe is in the midst of testing the removal of the $9.99 Photographers plan to some of its website visitors. Vote below and then sound off in the comments!
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Adobe’s greed is going to destroy the company soon. Already many lower level users are moving to alternatives that meet their needs. Those of us who often use some of Photoshop’s special features may soon change our techniques to avoid them in order to stop the outflow of money in the near future. I’ll miss 3D and a lot of my actions, but I won’t miss the money I’ll save. But then I’m an old pensioner. Young folks bringing in the big bucks can stick with Adobe when they cross the price threshold. I’ll just encourage them to either keep… Read more »
I am afraid I agree with Leon. When I joined my camera club almost all used Photoshop, we are now down to a handful, only three pay for the Photographers plan.
Unfortunately I live in a country that our currency is about 30 percent less the USA, I only use PS and not lightroom or the other products that comes with the subscription. If it goes up in price I will seriously have to weight my options.
Adobe should tread very softly here. When it first changed to a subscription business model, it didn’t have near the competition that it has today. Many people grudgingly signed up for the Photography plan, including me. But, for the last two years, I have been trying out (and usually purchasing) competitive software from PhaseOne, Luminar, ON1, Topaz Studio, Affinity Photo, and Alien Skin. All of these are non-subscription and many of them surpass the capabilities of Photoshop/Lightroom. So if Adobe wants to start playing pricing games, it’s going to discover there are more players this time around. So, if Adobe… Read more »
Well ever since CC became a thing, I just walked away from Adobe and glad I did. I rather pay for software once and own it for life.
I’m actually one of the odd ones here, I actually don’t mind the subscription plan. Of course I also have other subscriptions for things like Microsoft Office. The accountants are pushing this and with more and more stuff moving to the cloud I think its going to get more common. What I object to is that if feels like Adobe is pushing more and more to the cloud where for some of us the solution doesn’t work. Not to mention the ability to use other software along with it such as Aurora, NIK, etc. I suspect that Adobe has heard… Read more »
I am afraid I agree with Leon. When I joined my camera club almost all used Photoshop, we are now down to a handful, only three pay for the Photographers plan.
Adobe’s greed is going to destroy the company soon. Already many lower level users are moving to alternatives that meet their needs. Those of us who often use some of Photoshop’s special features may soon change our techniques to avoid them in order to stop the outflow of money in the near future. I’ll miss 3D and a lot of my actions, but I won’t miss the money I’ll save. But then I’m an old pensioner. Young folks bringing in the big bucks can stick with Adobe when they cross the price threshold. I’ll just encourage them to either keep… Read more »
I’m actually one of the odd ones here, I actually don’t mind the subscription plan. Of course I also have other subscriptions for things like Microsoft Office. The accountants are pushing this and with more and more stuff moving to the cloud I think its going to get more common. What I object to is that if feels like Adobe is pushing more and more to the cloud where for some of us the solution doesn’t work. Not to mention the ability to use other software along with it such as Aurora, NIK, etc. I suspect that Adobe has heard… Read more »
Adobe should tread very softly here. When it first changed to a subscription business model, it didn’t have near the competition that it has today. Many people grudgingly signed up for the Photography plan, including me. But, for the last two years, I have been trying out (and usually purchasing) competitive software from PhaseOne, Luminar, ON1, Topaz Studio, Affinity Photo, and Alien Skin. All of these are non-subscription and many of them surpass the capabilities of Photoshop/Lightroom. So if Adobe wants to start playing pricing games, it’s going to discover there are more players this time around. So, if Adobe… Read more »
Well ever since CC became a thing, I just walked away from Adobe and glad I did. I rather pay for software once and own it for life.
Unfortunately I live in a country that our currency is about 30 percent less the USA, I only use PS and not lightroom or the other products that comes with the subscription. If it goes up in price I will seriously have to weight my options.
Unfortunately I live in a country that our currency is about 30 percent less the USA, I only use PS and not lightroom or the other products that comes with the subscription. If it goes up in price I will seriously have to weight my options.
I am afraid I agree with Leon. When I joined my camera club almost all used Photoshop, we are now down to a handful, only three pay for the Photographers plan.
Adobe’s greed is going to destroy the company soon. Already many lower level users are moving to alternatives that meet their needs. Those of us who often use some of Photoshop’s special features may soon change our techniques to avoid them in order to stop the outflow of money in the near future. I’ll miss 3D and a lot of my actions, but I won’t miss the money I’ll save. But then I’m an old pensioner. Young folks bringing in the big bucks can stick with Adobe when they cross the price threshold. I’ll just encourage them to either keep… Read more »
I’m actually one of the odd ones here, I actually don’t mind the subscription plan. Of course I also have other subscriptions for things like Microsoft Office. The accountants are pushing this and with more and more stuff moving to the cloud I think its going to get more common. What I object to is that if feels like Adobe is pushing more and more to the cloud where for some of us the solution doesn’t work. Not to mention the ability to use other software along with it such as Aurora, NIK, etc. I suspect that Adobe has heard… Read more »
Well ever since CC became a thing, I just walked away from Adobe and glad I did. I rather pay for software once and own it for life.
Adobe should tread very softly here. When it first changed to a subscription business model, it didn’t have near the competition that it has today. Many people grudgingly signed up for the Photography plan, including me. But, for the last two years, I have been trying out (and usually purchasing) competitive software from PhaseOne, Luminar, ON1, Topaz Studio, Affinity Photo, and Alien Skin. All of these are non-subscription and many of them surpass the capabilities of Photoshop/Lightroom. So if Adobe wants to start playing pricing games, it’s going to discover there are more players this time around. So, if Adobe… Read more »