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Re: Say goodbye to discs and the CS from Adobe... - C(-)ris - 05-06-2013
Wonder if my CS6 Master collection is going to go way up in value now...hmm. Will have to set up some watch lists on Ebay and see what they go for.
Re: Say goodbye to discs and the CS from Adobe... - Paul F. - 05-06-2013
C(-)ris wrote:
Wonder if my CS6 Master collection is going to go way up in value now...hmm. Will have to set up some watch lists on Ebay and see what they go for.
I'll give you $50 for it
Re: Say goodbye to discs and the CS from Adobe... - GGD - 05-06-2013
M A V I C wrote:
And what are these Photoshop alternatives people speak of? At last check, Adobe's file formats are proprietary and if anyone tries to be able to open them, Adobe sues.
http://www.adobe.com/devnet-apps/photoshop/fileformatashtml/
Welcome to the Adobe Photoshop® File Format Specification!
This document is the detailed specification of the Adobe Photoshop file format and other pertinent file formats that Adobe Photoshop reads and writes.
Audience
This document is provided for 3rd parties to read and write the Photoshop native file format. This document does not explain how to interpret the data. This document describes the format of the data only.
Re: Say goodbye to discs and the CS from Adobe... - Gareth - 05-06-2013
Well, bummer. That seems absolutely insane for the average user. Especially if you only upgraded every other version or so (I went from CS to CS3 to CS5 to CS6).
At half those rates ($25/suite, $10/app), it would be palatable, but at $50 and $20, it's just ridiculous. I wonder if it'll still allow for two installs per subscription, or if that rate is per computer (which would be absolutely insane). The regular purchased apps allow for two installations which is great if you have two computers (i.e. desktop and laptop).
Let's see, I bought my CS5 upgrade 3 years ago, and then bought CS5.5 in the window to get CS6 for free, spending a total of $1677. With the subscription model, I would have spent $1800 in the same time frame, and I'd continue paying them even more...
Guess I'll be sticking to CS6 (and 10.6.8) for as long as possible... Though I'm bummed that Lightroom 5 will require 10.7+.
Re: Say goodbye to discs and the CS from Adobe... - space-time - 05-06-2013
GGD wrote:
[quote=M A V I C]
And what are these Photoshop alternatives people speak of? At last check, Adobe's file formats are proprietary and if anyone tries to be able to open them, Adobe sues.
http://www.adobe.com/devnet-apps/photoshop/fileformatashtml/
Welcome to the Adobe Photoshop® File Format Specification!
This document is the detailed specification of the Adobe Photoshop file format and other pertinent file formats that Adobe Photoshop reads and writes.
Audience
This document is provided for 3rd parties to read and write the Photoshop native file format. This document does not explain how to interpret the data. This document describes the format of the data only.
it will be interesting to see where M A V I C got the idea
Re: Say goodbye to discs and the CS from Adobe... - kj4btkljv - 05-06-2013
Paul F. wrote:
Looks like I'll have to find something else to replace InDesign for the newsletter I do. I do it for a non-profit, and neither they, nor I, is going to pay $600/yr to use it.
How complicated is your newsletter? There's Swift Publisher by Belight Software, that starts at $30 for a single license.
http://www.belightsoft.com/products/swiftpublisher/overview.php
http://www.belightsoft.com/buy/swiftpublisher.php
It's also included in software bundles all the time.
Jeff
Re: Say goodbye to discs and the CS from Adobe... - jdc - 05-06-2013
No CS upgrade has ever cost $300, unless you are talking about individual application updates.
To go from any CS 5.5 to CS 6 (Design & Web premium) is $375. $750 if you are at 5.
For me, to go from CS 3 Design Standard was impossible. But $29 to everything (at least for the first year) was totally doable.
Re: Say goodbye to discs and the CS from Adobe... - $tevie - 05-06-2013
Gareth wrote: The regular purchased apps allow for two installations which is great if you have two computers (i.e. desktop and laptop).
It's two installs per subscription. And if one computer is a Mac and one is Windows, that's no problem.
I'm out of work right now and having to cough up the entire cost of even one app was kind of breath taking. This was kind of perfect timing for me.
Re: Say goodbye to discs and the CS from Adobe... - Surfrider - 05-06-2013
Total BS from Adobe. What a scammy bunch they are.
They OWN design software for Macs and they finally aimed the pistol straight at us.
I hope someone comes along and cleans their clock
Douchebags.
Re: Say goodbye to discs and the CS from Adobe... - JoeM - 05-06-2013
jdc wrote:
No CS upgrade has ever cost $300, unless you are talking about individual application updates.
To go from any CS 5.5 to CS 6 (Design & Web premium) is $375. $750 if you are at 5.
For me, to go from CS 3 Design Standard was impossible. But $29 to everything (at least for the first year) was totally doable.
jdc is correct. I got CS5.5 Design Premium for Mac - Upgrade from CS 2/3 for $740.00 and that got me the upgrade to CS6 for no cost.