You still don't get it. You see $10 to some, and probably not you since you have the attitude you do, is a lot of money, while to others it's not even pocket change. Those of us that are on budgets and trying to be creative cannot afford the extortion, which is what this is when the companies wallets are now more like what fort Knox used to be. There is such a thing as a fair profit and then there is just out right robbery. Adobe is abusing the fact that people need their software in order to use their photo equipment to make a living and that is just out right immoral. OK, all you millionaires that have lost the value of a dollar, go ahead and trash me, it's nothing you haven't done in the past. Perhaps, those that think that the $10 a month is nothing, they could put in another nothing into a fund for those who can't afford it; wouldn't that be the democratic way of things. Now that statement should win me over some libertards.

Bottom line is that Adobe did fine as company before the extortion stunt, but I predict their greed is going to be their down fall. And the number of pissed off people here only proves that point. I predicted years ago Nascar would shoot themselves in the foot (when they started showing the races on pay TV channels and not free TV, where the majority of their fan base comes from); now they can barely fill half the stands even at their great races; the NFL is doing it to themselves right now (I said it would happen shortly after that piece of increment in San Francisco started his stunt last year); now they are having trouble filling stands and will fall if they keep it up. It's a corporate stupid mentality that they think they can do anything they want and we won't retaliate.

You still don't get it. You see $10 to some, and probably not you since you have the attitude you do, is a lot of money, while to others it's not even pocket change. Those of us that are on budgets and trying to be creative cannot afford the extortion, which is what this is when the companies wallets are now more like what fort Knox used to be. There is such a thing as a fair profit and then there is just out right robbery. Adobe is abusing the fact that people need their software in order to use their photo equipment to make a living and that is just out right immoral. OK, all you millionaires that have lost the value of a dollar, go ahead and trash me, it's nothing you haven't done in the past. Perhaps, those that think that the $10 a month is nothing, they could put in another nothing into a fund for those who can't afford it; wouldn't that be the democratic way of things. Now that statement should win me over some libertards.

Bottom line is that Adobe did fine as company before the extortion stunt, but I predict their greed is going to be their down fall. And the number of pissed off people here only proves that point. I predicted years ago Nascar would shoot themselves in the foot (when they started showing the races on pay TV channels and not free TV, where the majority of their fan base comes from); now they can barely fill half the stands even at their great races; the NFL is doing it to themselves right now (I said it would happen shortly after that piece of increment in San Francisco started his stunt last year); now they are having trouble filling stands and will fall if they keep it up. It's a corporate stupid mentality that they think they can do anything they want and we won't retaliate.

I use it and it's fine. My thing is adobe is always gouging folks. Even though I paid over 600.00 for cs4, is that right? Is it worth it? Maybe for a professional (which I'm not). I did it once, but never again. Is it worth 600.00? No! They suckered me once, but never again. My own fault. They should come way down on the price and stop this creative cloud nonsense. That's why I use dpp and affinity. Between the two it gets the job done without continuing to pay adobe. When I purchase another camera be Nikon or Canon I'll use affinity and dpp. I'm pretty much over Adobe. If Affinity can produce software that's great for 50.00 then Adobe can also. Adobe can't even make flash secure. come on! They're just in it for the money.

Lots of murky and byzantine details, and amazed no one sent info on this out yet.

Today Adobe released some new pricing plans around Lightroom.

Buried in the byzantine details, is that Adobe is phasing out Lightroom standalone. :-(

Here are a few links:

https://www.engadget.com/2017/10/18/adobe-max-lightroom-cc-cloud-1tb/

https://www.cnet.com/news/adobe-lightroom-cc-faces-an-uphill-climb-photoshop-2018/

Looks like they still have the $10 a month plan, and they rolled out a new $20 a month plan -- the main addition for the $20 plan appears to be 1TB of cloud storage for that extra $10.

Personally -- I'm glad I'm not an Adobe user, plenty of great alternatives that are almost as good and way, way less expensive . It's only going to get worse going down the road. My prediction is that in two years or less the $10 a month plan will be the $11.99 or $12.99 a month plan.