jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

It's a slippery slope.

http://gizmodo.com/another-great-app-went-subscription-only-and-everything-1797802223

Reinaldokool Loc: San Rafael, CA

Adobe has always been a source of irritation. Poor support at high prices, buying other products and dumbing them down (Dreamweaver) and then this subscription crap. But they have been almost the only game in town. Sure Corel is a great product but the user interface is vastly different and there are pieces missing. ACDSee is another, but not nearly as sophisticated. Gimp requires a complete mental reworking.

Along comes Affinity Photo. After a year of only working on toy computers (aka Mac) they finally brought out a Windows version. It works well, does everything photographers do with PS and does it better in some cases. Adobe has not really ever reworked Photoshop to modern programming norms. They probably can't with a software this complex, it is full of "spaghetti code." Affinity is more sophisticated, easier to learn and some of the tools just plain work better. Best of all, they still want to provide customer support.

If it weren't for all the third-party vendors of plugins and tutorials, Photoshop would be second-rate. There are a lot of good folk making a living by supplying the training gap. People like Blake Rudis make Photoshop. But Adobe does not.

I cut my strings about three weeks ago. Down with the Adobe Evil Empire. LOL

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

I hope subscriptions don't become the norm. Software would have to be pretty expensive to start for people to pay a monthly fee for it.

Marionsho Loc: Kansas

Thanks for the reply Reinaldokool.
I could see it coming and bought PS CS6. It was the same thing the school was using when I took one of their photo classes.
Not being a pro, I have just gotten by with what CS6 has to offer. It's way more then what I truly need.
One of the teachers told me he pays to have everything Adobe offers. As a pro, it's a tax deduction anyway.
Marion