Will you subscribe to Adobe CC?

[Lost Canadian]

I'm curious because I know there are quiet a few Adobe users here. Will you pay the monthly fee?

 

[Ryanmb21]

Not one snowball's chance in hell.

 

[john101477]

I am at a cross roads here myself. I really like the ability to layer and mask that I get with PS and I often find myself going from LR to CS and back simply because some things are just easier to do in PS. With LR5 being released, I again find myself wondering because of the additions of the clone stamp and some other tools. I find it odd that they call it Photoshop but are creating less and less of a draw for photographers. I honestly believe it is a numbers game to them. I personally have not upgraded since CS4 but had planned to buy the newest CS at the end of the year. So, CS4 cost me somewhere like $400 ish on CS4 and lasted me since what o8? That's roughly $7 a month. Now I probably should have upgraded at CS6 but I bought into the Lightroom platform which I like for 80% of my work. So from a numbers game, just for Photoshop, it would run me $239.88 a year. It is a tough sell really.

 

[Haakon]

Nope. Lightroom 4 works fine for the great majority of what I do, and Photoshop CS3, Paint Shop Pro, even Paint.NET work fine for everything else. I have zero need, desire or incentive to pay Adobe a monthly fee. It may be worth it for some people who use more of CS on a daily basis and upgrade to every new release, but this change is done with the idea of making Adobe more money, not because it's a better deal for consumers.

 

[haven]

Someone started a petition on Change.org to ask Adobe to reconsider. It has more than 7000 signatures, and counting.
https://www.change.org/petitions/ad...e-mandatory-creative-cloud-subscription-model

There are more than 1900 comments posted to a similar poll on DPReview.com. Very few are positive.
http://www.dpreview.com/news/2013/0...plaints-Poll-of-Photographers-Photoshop-users

 

[john101477]

yeah there is a lot of hype over this. Adobe has effectively made themselves nearly a must have in photography but I can see some shoes waiting to be filled if they step on to many people toes. Granted I am not a fan of Gimp, Irf or any of those but to me it ranks right up there with not updating Raw to work with image from new cameras such as CS4 and the D7000 incompatibility.

 

[Michael Slade]

You need a fifth choice. Keep using Adobe's products but continue to use versions you purchased and own the license to use outright and have no plans to use the cloud. That's my choice. I have the CS5 Master Suite and am a beta tester for LR5. I won't pay no cloud fee even though I have close friends who work with Adobe. If that means I'm stuck in CS5 land forever, so be it. It's good enough for me now, it'll be good enough for me tomorrow. Hell, I have a G5 tower that's pre-Intel, and I use LR2.0 on it. Clearly you all know me as a Luddite in other ways, but apparently my software choices will be old-school now as well.

 

[Chazz Layne]

I already did about 6 months ago, and haven't been happier.

Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, and Lightroom all get used on a regular basis (for business and pleasure), so I use enough of the suite to justify having it as such. I also need to keep it updated regularly enough to ensure complete compatibility with clients, vendors, and printers. $50/month is actually less than I previously used to spend on planned upgrades, and always having the latest version of *anything* in the Master Suite has been a great asset.

Obviously I'm all for the cloud, but I'd love to see Lightroom advance a bit to incorporate the basic Photoshop features like Photoshop LE used to have, and continue to be available as a stand-alone purchase.

 

[sickchilly]

Heck no! I will hold on to CS6 as long as it is still functional. At that time, I'm sure there will be more viable alternatives (hopefully tablet and mobile based) or Adobe will have come to its senses.

 

[photoman]

Undecided. At this time no - I will just use CS6 until I find a need for an upgrade to the cloud. At that point though I will also have done my research on every other possible solution for photo editing and test those software applications before joining the cloud.

 

[Scott Brady]

I said yes, but with prejudice. We are probably going to install the suite on a few machines, primarily because we use indesign for most of our production work. I have never used Photoshop, but was considering it. Now, I am not certain - too bad Aperture is trailing so badly (that is what I currently use).

 

[grimbo]

I haven't yet but have noticed quite a few studios I have been working in either doing it or preparing to do it very soon. In a design studio environment I see it making sense as it is little upfront expense, you have the latest updates.

My one big issue is the compatibility of it and printers, it's a pain the proverbial at the moment maintaining a print setup with updates and then finding that printer drivers aren't up to date etc

I have cs6 at home and will continue to use it for awhile yet, probably until my next Mac upgrade and see then about the cloud

 

[Photomike]

I have used Photoshop for so long that it is scary, I have been taught by Adobe, I teach it as well as I use it daily for 6 to 10 hours a day in the studio - you could say that I REALLY like Photoshop. With all that I will not be paying for the cloud service. I am from the school that I will pay for something that I can own but I will not be roped into paying for time and eternity for something. You could pay thousands then stop the payments and have nothing to show for it.

Myself I am still using Photoshop 7 and CS2 (depending on what computer that I am on) and they do 99.99999% of what I want to. I also use Elements 9 for some things (seeing I teach it I have to stay up on Elements as well).

I will pick up a box copy of last version they sell outright of Photoshop and Elements before they are gone, use it till it will not work anymore then hopefully something else will be out to take its place.

 

[kevint]

I will pick up a box copy of last version they sell outright of Photoshop and Elements before they are gone, use it till it will not work anymore then hopefully something else will be out to take its place.

Is Elements part of this as well?

 

[Photomike]

I was told that all Adobe products were heading this way. I have not heard more than that.