Any one tried Photoshop CC yet?

[SausalitoDog]

Today is the release day.

Just peeping on my iPad at the adobe site, I see that it's ready to go. I was
Unable to see any of the video demos as the iPad won't play flash movies.

Be interesting to see if there is any appeal in the new software. We all know there is ZERO appeal in the new pricing 😉

 

[GaryLH]

Looks like adobe heard all the yelling...maybe

Looks like adobe heard all the yelling...maybe

http://photorumors.com/2013/06/16/adobe-is-considering-new-pricing-models-for-creative-cloud/

They lowered the price and after three years u get to keep your copy of cs6. If it is true, then step in the right direction.

For me... Doesn't matter. I am an Aperture user mainly... I use adobe products only when I need to do something I cannot do in aperture (less then 5 % of the time).. My current versions are good enough. My only issue is next time I upgrade my Mac OS, will they still work 🙁.

Gary

 

[kiss-o-matic]

$10 a month doesn't sound bad as long as they update it (significantly) more often than every 3 years. The old model was basically an update every 3 years for no more than $200. This is $360 every 3 years... would need to be updated with two massive updates in there for me to consider it.

 

[Doug]

I've used a lot of Adobe products, most of them discontinued over the years. Photoshop came as a light edition with my old Abaton 3-pass color flatbed scanner. I was always a light user of Photoshop, later bought and lightly used Illustrator, much later migrated to InDesign from ReadySetGo, and never bought into the Creative Suite. I just occasionally upgraded individual applications as the need arose. Now it's all CS4 except the CS6 version of InDesign used regularly.

Indeed its doesn't sound all that bad to pay $10/mo for Photoshop alone. If that's what you need and use. It's hard to justify the $30/mo CC "usage fee" for just InDesign. I'd not like to have to give up InDesign CS6, but eventually it will be unusable with the then-current OS. That gives me some time to consider.

If Lightroom becomes unavailable outside the CC, that would be disaster....

 

[clayne]

I hate to say it, but I think I'm using CS5 (when I actually use it) and couldn't care less (although I despise the pricing model). What actually improves in photoshop that photographers would actually need the latest version?

 

[thirtyfivefifty]

I hate to say it, but I think I'm using CS5 (when I actually use it) and couldn't care less (although I despise the pricing model). What actually improves in photoshop that photographers would actually need the latest version?

Had the same line of thought. I removed CS5 from my dock, and now just editing photographs via Lightroom 5 & Nik Collection. Lightroom has evolved so much, that there isn't really anything I need Photoshop for.

On a side note, when I was purchasing Lightroom 5, Adobe cancelled my ordered. When I contacted them, instead of processing my order, they asked me a bunch of questions and tried to push me towards Creative Cloud.

I said no, it's way too rich for my blood. Ordered for LR5 processed immediately after.

 

[lcpr]

I hate to say it, but I think I'm using CS5 (when I actually use it) and couldn't care less (although I despise the pricing model). What actually improves in photoshop that photographers would actually need the latest version?

I haven't downloaded CC yet (I'm on CS6 and mostly use it for design work) will be testing out CC later today, but here are some features that will be relevant to photogaphers:

- Camera raw updates, you can now do ACR edits as any layer within a file
- Improved retouching tools
- Better perspective correction (which is available in LR5)
- Radial gradients (so you don't have to mess with masks now, again a feature introduced to LR5)
- Anti-shake filter
- Better smart sharpen

The first three are pretty big timesavers, for example perspective correction in PS can be quite an arduous task since you sometimes have to manually draw up lines. Really depends on what your intended vision for your photographs is though, straightforward documentary style photography isn't going to see *much* benefit but others will appreciate the new tools. I know I will do, and I also use PS for graphic design too so CC is very much worth it for me. One thing I'm happy about is that InDesign now has retina display support.

 

[3rdtrick]

I have not tried CC but I am using the trial of Capture One hoping it is a replacement for Lightroom and Photoshop. I never want to buy another Adobe product again, CC or Not CC.

 

[SausalitoDog]

I hate to say it, but I think I'm using CS5 (when I actually use it) and couldn't care less (although I despise the pricing model). What actually improves in photoshop that photographers would actually need the latest version?

I can only speak for myself. I've always felt that I was held hostage by Adobe and that I was forced to buy the latest version of PS to get the latest version of ACR. For some long time that was really the only reasonable way to get current RAW converters for a variety of the latest cameras.

Recently that has changed...especially with the poor support that Adobe gave for the Fuji x series raw files...they were one of the last to support them, which has prompted many of us to search around for other raw converters - quite successfully, I might add.

Capture One seems to be the leader of full blown commercial products, but not to my personal taste due to the catalog feature (much like LR).

There are several free raw converts on the web that work well...Raw Converter being the simplest and pretty darn good 🙂 and there are now many free or inexpensive apps that afford quick viewing of files for later editing... Lyn comes to mind for mac users; fastone for windows are great for this. I saw a mention of another raw converter in this forum over the weekend ... Accuraw for mac ($29) where the user believes it is actually BETTER than ACR or some of the other converters.

So, to answer your question...in the past there was a lot, now, not so much...

Good lucky Adobe - in my view you've blown it.

Tom

 

[Bob Michaels]

........ Good lucky Adobe - in my view you've blown it. .............

From today's CNBC release about Adobe's increased sales and earnings:

Adobe introduced the Web-based Creative Cloud, which includes the company's popular design titles such as Photoshop, Illustrator and Flash, in the second quarter of 2012.
Customers are responding to the Creative Cloud offering and the convenience of subscriptions, which is reflecting in the results and stock movement, said B. Riley & Co analyst Daniel Cummins.
The company said it added 221,000 paid Creative Cloud subscribers in the latest quarter, taking the total to 700,000. Adobe expects to add more Creative Cloud paid subscribers in the current quarter than in the second quarter.
"The guidance continues to be pretty impressive. They are essentially setting some pretty high standards in terms of what they need to do for Q3 here, to surpass what was an already impressive Q2 in terms of subscription adds," Edward Jones technology analyst Josh Olson told Reuters.

It certainly appears that the new Adobe business model is doing quite well with the overall market, RFF members not withstanding..

 

[3rdtrick]

Regardless of whether their profits go up or down, they are comfortable with losing customers and I guess I am one of them. I need to get comfortable with that and say "Adios Adobe!"

 

[Ronald M]

Nightly business Show on PBS said Adobe is doing well with CC.

I will not pay rent on general principle.

 

[Ronald M]

Already have CS6 and it is paid for. I don`t use most of the features now.

This whole thing reminds me of buying a car. You ask how much and the goon tells you x dollars a month. No , I want to write a check.

 

[SausalitoDog]

Sounds like more tha RFF members don't want a monthly charge:

http://petapixel.com/2013/06/19/ado...een-cracked-one-day-after-launch/#more-115170

 

[lcpr]

I haven't used it much, but the image stabilisation is an interesting feature that works to an extent - I didn't really pay attention to the sliders that much (just whacked the top one to the right a bit), I guess with more care I could have reduced the haloing effect, and images with less random blur (like a simple up/down blur, mirror slap) could well be fixed (I'm thinking landscape work/long exposures of still objects). This was at 28mm equiv. and at 1/8th sec:

Look at how it managed to render the text on the light meter and how clear the Rolleflex logo/focusing knob on the right is.

 

[Ronald M]

Got a new Mac pro 3 weeks ago, added 3 hard drives, time machine, super duper clone to a small partition, then I cloned the original with all the photo processing software installed to two others. The two others will also serve as photo back up in addition to time machine back up.

Through clone process I have 5 copies of CS6 and they all function. Should I lose the main HD, I just pull it out and use another. I have already tried it.

Bottom line, I will not be using CC any time soon if ever. I will use LR or Aperture or Capture One or DXO should the .

 

[Sid836]

I have tried the CC version of Photoshop. With regards to my workflows nothing has really changed. I have the suspicion that CS6 is a bit faster in terms of loading but other than that I have found no new things that could improve my workflows, and/or the quality of my photos.

 

[Kent]

I have just started to use it. It seems to be even a tad faster than CS6 and the Google NIK Filters work like a charm!

 

[mikemc_photo]

Camera raw updates, you can now do ACR edits as any layer within a file
- Improved retouching tools
- Better perspective correction (which is available in LR5)
- Radial gradients (so you don't have to mess with masks now, again a feature introduced to LR5)
- Anti-shake filter
- Better smart sharpen

Yup CC does have some great additions....BUT the cost of using CC for 10 plus years....you don't want to know that.

Adobe has gotten a lot of backlash from this, and now that Google bought NIK out, we might see some real competition soon, I love my CS5.5 and use it daily