Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/05/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I get promotional pricing from Adobe of $19.99 per month for the entire Creative Cloud. Why is that? I about to push the Accept button because it seems like a bargain to me! Tina On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 1:06 AM, Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew at gmail.com>wrote: > Frank there is a Q&A on DPReview with the VP of Creative solutions that you > may find helpful. > > (on retaining your existing access to your own property (the files you > created) ) > ....and for existing perpetual users, Photoshop CS can co-exist alongside > and independently from Photoshop CC > > So whatever your existing licence arrangement it can continue exactly as > before, whether or not you choose the start/stop a subscription to the new > versions. > > (on cancelling your subscription) > *......We do not delete any files or software from your computer. You will > not be able to use the software but the files you've created and saved on > your hard drive are left intact.* > > Of course if you are shooting a Raw format you have always been able to > preserve the native format or alternatively convert to DNG, You can export > as whatever other format you choose too. > Personally I am more concerned at maintaining back up copies of my many > many digital photos as we all are. > > Periodically companies do stop supporting different hardware and operating > systems as you mention. For example the Nikon software for my expensive > Nikon scanner will not work at all in current Windows versions (unless you > use an unsupported hack). > At least in this instance you can maintain your existing situation > (assuming you have a current perpetual licence) whether or not you elect to > take up a new subscription model. > > I guess that opinions are polarised on Adobe's new model and no-one's > opinion is likely to change. Each of us will work out what suits us and > rightly so. I'm only in this discussion with facts since there seems to be > a lot of mis-information mis-conceptions across the web on what is actually > the case. > > FWIW personally, the full $49.95 p/m for the complete suite does not make > sense for my situation as a photographer. A Photoshop CC subscription and > perpetual licence for Lightroom combination for less money may well do. > I think that Lightroom will continue to grow in capabilities and perhaps > supplant PS all together for almost everything I want to do. > > > We do not delete any files or software from your computer. You will not be > able to use the software but the files you've created and saved on your > hard drive are left intact. And you don't need a valid license or Internet > connection tohe software > cheers > Geoff > http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman > > > On 10 May 2013 00:32, Frank Filippone <red735i at verizon.net> wrote: > > > Here is what I see as major problems.... > > > > It is 2018, you have been paying $20 a month for 4 years for CS-CC. > Adobe > > decides to go broke, decides to support some new computer architecture, > > decides to no longer support MAC ( or IBM) OS, or decides that it needs > to > > upgrade its software to the point that the old images you manipulated in > > 2008 no longer can be opened/manipulated by CS-CC/2018. > > > > Now what? Migrate thousands of images to some new SW? What about your > > previous manipulations? Do they stick or do they get eliminated in the > > migration? > > > > It is late one evening. You need to make edits to images and deliver > those > > images to your client first thing in the AM. Adobe, that day, > > changed/upgraded something and you now can no longer find some feature > you > > have been using for the past years. You are under time constraints. You > > can not find the way to interact with the program like you have been... > > Now > > What? > > > > Owning SW always means that it can be used, in the future, as needed, on > > the > > HW and OS that it was originally intended, in the way it always ran. It > > means YOU decide when to upgrade, migrate, etc. > > > > CC is the newest risk. > > > > Frank Filippone > > Red735i at verizon.net > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > -- Tina Manley, ASMP www.tinamanley.com