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Certainly up to date but will it really be cheaper, and what happens if you decide you don't wish to pay any more subscriptions ... do you get to keep what you've got?
But it's a fantastic opportunity for adobe to reign in the extremely high level of piracy of their product.
Will it though Neil? The software is still local on the user's machine, won't the pirates be able to circumvent the activation system just as easily as before? It's a genuine question by the way (not rhetorical)... I hope you're right, It makes me mad that I pay for software that some people just help themselves to!
When you open the software it contacts adobe to make sure you have a valid licence, much the way CS does now except the way of circumventing this presently is to block the connection. However if the cloud package cannot make contact within 30 days it shuts the software off.
I think it only needs to connect once a month to check the subscription has been renewed... I guess they're prepared to lose the ones who can't connect at all.And if you want to use it standalone with no Internet connection then what ?
I'm sure there are thousands of people who use none networked pc's and Macs that use photoshop.
And if you want to use it standalone with no Internet connection then what ?
I'm sure there are thousands of people who use none networked pc's and Macs that use photoshop.
How many people will be prepared to pay every month for ever? The changes to the last few 'new' versions of PS have been minuscule. What is an upgrade likely to offer? The main problem is likely to be new cameras that can't utilise current versions of Adobe products - but that would cause an outcry from the camera buyers, so either new cameras will be compatible with current PS/LR/Elements, or someone will fill the editing gap. Possibly you will have to buy some sort of one-off licence if you want to use PS or LR with a new camera, but that would meant the camera manufacturers agreeing to cooperate with Adobe.
Maybe someone will buy out the PS/LR part (it's moving towards a single package anyway - possibly something like Elements and LR will come combined) and Adobe will become a tool almost entirely for designers and publishers?
...The main problem is likely to be new cameras that can't utilise current versions of Adobe products - but that would cause an outcry from the camera buyers, so either new cameras will be compatible with current PS/LR/Elements, or someone will fill the editing gap...
'Tis a good thing for Adobe! It stops all those customers sitting on old copies of CS and not paying Adobe a penny more.
When you open the software it contacts adobe to make sure you have a valid licence, much the way CS does now except the way of circumventing this presently is to block the connection. However if the cloud package cannot make contact within 30 days it shuts the software off.
No chance will that work.
I've just read that some processor hungry features, like the new 'Camera Shake Reduction Tool', are going to be processed in the cloud rather than on the host machine... that should help stop the piracy if nothing else does. May really screw users with no internet connection though... or a really slow one like our steam driven rural connection.
Is it cheaper though? If you get Photoshop, it costs $19.95 a month, so its $239.00 per annum - and remember, its normally more expensive here in the UK. An upgrade normally comes around every 18 months and costs around the £220.00 mark, so its going to cost you about £100.00 more over the same period to 'rent it.
CLICK - Third paragraph down... unless I've misunderstood it :shrug:
Is it cheaper though? If you get Photoshop, it costs $19.95 a month, so its $239.00 per annum - and remember, its normally more expensive here in the UK. An upgrade normally comes around every 18 months and costs around the £220.00 mark, so its going to cost you about £100.00 more over the same period to 'rent it.
They don't upgrade every year - they may well update things like camera raw to help read new camera profiles.Hi David, you haven't included the initial cost of photoshop in your calculations.
Bag of the fag packet calculations, :-
5 years, assuming 1 upgrade per year
£600 initial cost
£200 upgrade per year
£1400 total cost
Creative cloud
£17.58 per month
£1054.80 total cost
3 years, assuming 1 upgrade per year
£600 initial cost
£200 upgrade per year
£1000 total cost
Creative cloud
£17.58 per month
£632.88 total cost
They don't upgrade every year - they may well update things like camera raw to help read new camera profiles.
They don't upgrade every year - they may well update things like camera raw to help read new camera profiles.
It is what has been happening recently, new versions appearing approx every may
*version CS5 to CS5.1 was not a need for everyone and very few needed to upgrade.
Morning Tom - that maybe the case that not many needed the upgrade, but it is besides the point, it was a paid upgrade if my memory serves me ....
CS5 april 2010
CS5.1 may 2011
CS6 May 2012.
Those dates would suggest an annual upgrade cycle in recent years.
Can somebody confirm that the cs5.1 was a paid upgrade?
But you stated 5 years ....which goes back to may 2008...just looking at your fag packet calculations!