Photoshop and Lightroom package now £8.78 per month!

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Got an email through last night to say that Adobe have an offer where you can get full Photoshop CC and Lightroom 5 for only £8.78 per month.
Previously we were paying around £20 a month just for Photoshop, so I did an online chat with Adobe support last night, and got our current contact cancelled with no charges for cancelling within a 12 month contact, and then immediately signed up for the £8.78 deal.

More details here: https://creative.adobe.com/plans/offer/ ... ngid=KKULN

[GoonerGary]

47,000 users saying no to Adobe CashCow

https://www.change.org/petitions/adobe- ... tion-model

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Well, some of us say yes - we couldn't budget for buying Photoshop at the price it was, but we can easily budget to rent it month by month, and then always have the most up to date version.
We were using PhotoShop version 5.5 (before CS!) as we got it cheap as we couldn't afford a more recent version, and it did the job. But on being able to use up-to-date PhotoShop we saw a marked improvement in performance, quality and colour management.

[GoonerGary]

Up to date version for how long though? That will eventually be unsupportable like the collection of very expensive calibration hardware my lab has sitting in a drawer... XP and older!

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One one the pluses of Adobe's new business model for the consumer is that they always have the most up-to-date version for their monthly fee. Rather than paying hundreds/thousands every 2-3 years for the latest version, the subscription means you always get the most recent version pushed out.
(We have an XP machine running as we need it for our large format scanner, but out CC subscription lets us use CS6 on that machine)

[GoonerGary]

Up to date because it was released before they checked for bugs, or let all the subscribers tear their hair out with faults so that they can report back to Adobe for a fix, you shouldn't need an up to date version.

How about a discount for paying up front instead of getting it on HP and paying extra? CC is £200 to rent it for a year, CS6 is around £600 and you own it forever. Ancient versions are still perfectly usable. I don't think any of Photoshop's upgrades have been spectacular, I believe that this subscription model is forcing people to buy unnecessary or pointless upgrades. The leap from Windows 98 to XP was great, that was a reason to go out and buy a new computer or operating system. Where will the incentive be for Adobe to bring out a version 'I must have'? They don't need to as they already have everyone locked into their subscription.

You can't protest either and stop paying for it, forced into a never ending higher priced rental deal, how can that make economic sense for users? Everyone assumed that subscription was to combat piracy, that assumption lasted a whole day.

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I had assumed that over time the price would go up, as everything does, and then they bring out this package offer, which halves the price we were paying for just Photoshop, and we get Lightroom thrown in.

Before this offer, we were happy to budget just under £20 a month for Photoshop, rather than £600 every few years, and now it's around £9 a month we're even happier.

Full CS2 is still available for free download from Adobe also

[arthur.daley]

I had assumed that over time the price would go up, as everything does, and then they bring out this package offer, which halves the price we were paying for just Photoshop, and we get Lightroom thrown in.

Before this offer, we were happy to budget just under £20 a month for Photoshop, rather than £600 every few years, and now it's around £9 a month we're even happier.

Full CS2 is still available for free download from Adobe also

CS2 is a free download to any one who wants it? Do you have a link for that Pisquee?


Arthur

[GoonerGary]

http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic ... 2-for-free

Scroll down and you'll see the Windows and Mac versions. Any problems I can email you the file and serial. I've never installed it though.

Further information here:
http://www.cnet.com/uk/news/adobe-relea ... -for-free/

[Wally]

Im new to sublimation and am in the process of buying some kit. Wat photoshop software would you recomend in the under £100 bracket?
Thanks Wally