willie_901
Veteran
Adobe just announced a $9.99/mo Creative Cloud subscription for photographers. This price is good until 12/31. The offer opens on 9/17.
You must be a registered Photoshop CS3 or above owner. You only get Photoshop CC, Lightroom 5, Behance ProSite access and 20GB of storage space.
Supposedly, this price is good indefinitely or until your CC account lapses.
Now I am not in anyway promoting, approving or disapproving this new option for photographers to use Adobe products.
I think it's interesting for a few reasons. Perhaps PS 6 standalone new sales and upgrades were way below Adobe's internal forecast. Or the number of CC new adapters was low. It's also possible LR 5 new and upgrade sales suffered because photographers decided to abandon Adobe sooner rather than later. And, just think how much bad PR Adobe could have avoided if they introduced this option on day one?
Since switching from LR and PSE to the CC photography package would be a business expense, and the price is attractive, I may buy an old licensable CS 3 DVD and join. I really haven't decided. I am not of a frame of mind to spend the time, money and energy to completely abandon the LR ecosystem so moving to other platforms never was an option for me. Before this option, I refused to lease software I would never use (the non-still photography CC apps). Also, I wonder how Adobe will shuffle things around to get me to pay more than $9.95/mo in two to three years own the road.
The fundamental disadvantages of CC vigorously described here and elsewhere have not changed. I doubt Adobe has learned anything either. Otherwise this would have happened from day one, or shortly after it became obvious Adobe alienated a large portion of their photographer customer base with their take it or leave it (and get left behind) marketing strategy.
You must be a registered Photoshop CS3 or above owner. You only get Photoshop CC, Lightroom 5, Behance ProSite access and 20GB of storage space.
Supposedly, this price is good indefinitely or until your CC account lapses.
Now I am not in anyway promoting, approving or disapproving this new option for photographers to use Adobe products.
I think it's interesting for a few reasons. Perhaps PS 6 standalone new sales and upgrades were way below Adobe's internal forecast. Or the number of CC new adapters was low. It's also possible LR 5 new and upgrade sales suffered because photographers decided to abandon Adobe sooner rather than later. And, just think how much bad PR Adobe could have avoided if they introduced this option on day one?
Since switching from LR and PSE to the CC photography package would be a business expense, and the price is attractive, I may buy an old licensable CS 3 DVD and join. I really haven't decided. I am not of a frame of mind to spend the time, money and energy to completely abandon the LR ecosystem so moving to other platforms never was an option for me. Before this option, I refused to lease software I would never use (the non-still photography CC apps). Also, I wonder how Adobe will shuffle things around to get me to pay more than $9.95/mo in two to three years own the road.
The fundamental disadvantages of CC vigorously described here and elsewhere have not changed. I doubt Adobe has learned anything either. Otherwise this would have happened from day one, or shortly after it became obvious Adobe alienated a large portion of their photographer customer base with their take it or leave it (and get left behind) marketing strategy.
