Adobe replacement

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jdc wrote:
Well, that depends on what you use them for? What is it that use Photoshop for? Simple color correction? Or complex collages, layers and text treatments? Same with illustrator... complex CAD renderings? or?

And Im sure the versions you have now should work for a long while, or if you have an older version, now is the time to buy CS6 discs...

That is what I will probably do-stay with a computer with an OS that runs CS5 and CS6. I need tools like the Pen Tool to make clipping paths and I need to convert to CMYK. The free download apps don't offer that; it's one reason I recommended Corel PaintShop Pro. But I had a trial of PSP a while ago that worked with Mac and the new PSP X5 doesn't. At least not at the moment.
PSP did pretty much everything that Photoshop does for a lot less money.
If you just want to do basic color corrections, etc., stick with iPhoto.

[$tevie]

Honestly, the fact that you can give printers pdf files kind of takes the urgency away from everyone constantly upgrading their software. It's only if you have to make corrections to native files from someone who HAS upgraded that you hit a problem and that won't apply to many of us. I think keeping an older computer with older software makes sense, especially since Apple's gotten pretty awful about forcing upgrades themselves.

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Bosco wrote:
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I will explore them a bit more... Some work with iPad. Personally, I've never designed with iPad. But, I'm willing to give it a try.

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Some have iPad versions but all are made for OS X.

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davester wrote:
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Adobe has changed Creative Suite to Creative Cloud and now only offers a subscriptions to their software. Which is great if renting software is OK with you. Personally, I'd rather own my software with no strings attached.

Read yesterday's thread here:
http://forums.macresource.com/read.php?1,1552805

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You never owned it. You owned some discs is all you owned, discs which were useless once you'd installed them on two computers and which you could theoretically get in trouble for lending to a friend or selling on eBay.
I discovered that it was even worse than this when my CS2 license stopped working when I upgraded to Tiger (or was it Leopard) on my old powerbook. I reinstalled and CS2 worked perfectly on the new OS for the 30 day free trial period but the license would no longer activate. I called Adobe and they said that they no longer supported installing CS2 on the new OS. What they really meant was that they had made the licensing key software inaccessible to machines running newer OSes, since the CS2 itself worked perfectly in free trial mode. Those people are crooks.
That seems very odd, because my CS2 apps run without this issue in Tiger, Leopard and Snow Leopard. But I agree, not exactly that they are crooks, but that they are desperate to find a way to stay afloat that won't involve producing great, stable, innovative products.

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Bosco wrote:
BTW: Adobe should not have been allowed to buy Macromedia.

This is the root of all the evil.

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