Considering moving to PS Subscription (Page 4): Come back and let us know the results.

DirtFarmer Loc: Escaped from the NYC area, back to MA

DeanS wrote:

... My destiny now is to give the test version a ride and see if I can stay in the saddle. Tks ag’in!

Come back and let us know the results.

sirlensalot Loc: Arizona

I am with Bob on this one. Affinity looks like a good choice at a much lower cost.

DeanS Loc: Capital City area of North Carolina

DirtFarmer wrote:

Come back and let us know the results.

👍👍👍

frankraney Loc: Clovis, Ca.

DeanS wrote:

Curious to hear of experiences of moving from late... (show quote)

Dean, I started with Adobe Photoshop CS2. ( Still have it installed)...... And used Windows as my catalogue. And Picasa.

Upgraded a little over a year ago... Not much of a learning curve.... Only where things are... Glad I did it and won't go back..... For the$10/mo you get a lot, and work every penny.

Just do it!

DeanS Loc: Capital City area of North Carolina

frankraney wrote:

Dean, I started with Adobe Photoshop CS2. ( Still have it installed)...... And used Windows as my catalogue. And Picasa.

Upgraded a little over a year ago... Not much of a learning curve.... Only where things are... Glad I did it and won't go back..... For the$10/mo you get a lot, and work every penny.

Just do it!

Thanks Frank. Gonna ck out the test version, then make a decision.

10MPlayer Loc: California

I've been on the subscription to Lightroom/Photoshop for several years now. You can't beat it for $100 a year. Every month or so you get an update so you're always using the latest and greatest. If you think you have to store all your images in the cloud think again. You get the Classic version and store them on your own home hard drive. I'm completely happy with the setup the way it is. When I started on this photographic journey Photoshop was around $600. If you wanted Lightroom you had to pay for that too. Then when a new version came out you had to buy the version all over again. If you are considering buying I'd say go for it. Read the fine print. I do believe they want you to commit to a contract. I haven't read it in a while but I think once you've been on it for a while you can quit any time without a penalty.

anotherview Loc: California

I believe Adobe offers a trial period of Photoshop Creative Cloud for free. The interface of Photoshop remains the same, so you should have little trouble switching to it.

Adobe keeps adding new filters, tools, and features. I like Shake Reduction in Photoshop. It reduces image blur from minute movement of the camera. It works at the pixel level. This filter restores the native sharpness of a lens.

I also like the new Graduated Filter in Adobe Camera Raw. It allows selection of only the sky by clicking on areas of the sky. This action detects the hues and colors specific to the sky, as best I can tell. Then the user can adjust the sky apart from the foreground. Very powerful filter. Effectively, it eliminates the need for a hard graduated filter.

There are other improvements that you might find useful, too. I believe Adobe offers a listing of the latest improvements.

DeanS wrote:

Curious to hear of experiences of moving from late... (show quote)

DeanS Loc: Capital City area of North Carolina

Thanks 10M and anotherview. Plan to take a look at the trial version.

tonyjag Loc: Bolton, Ma.

sirlensalot wrote:

I am with Bob on this one. Affinity looks like a good choice at a much lower cost.

I am looking at moving on from Aperture and contacted Affinity with questions, but they cautioned that it is not a DAM (Digital Asset Mgr.) like Aperture. To you who are using Affinity, what DAM do you use? LR? Can you subscribe to LR without PS?

markngolf Loc: Bridgewater, NJ

tonyjag wrote:

I am looking at moving on from Aperture and contacted Affinity with questions, but they cautioned that it is not a DAM (Digital Asset Mgr.) like Aperture. To you who are using Affinity, what DAM do you use? LR? Can you subscribe to LR without PS?

No. It's a package but it is not necessary to use both LR & PS. $10 a month for both and PS Cloud too. The PS Organizer is a free download.
Mark

coullone Loc: Paynesville, Victoria, Australia

Started two months ago and seems OK most of the time. You must have a good internet connection otherwise it is a waste of time. Sometimes get frustrated with (lack of)speed and go back to my local Light Room 6.0, Speed factor of about 3 times faster.
If your internet is poor do not bother!
Australia's Internet is very definitely slow and very expensive, used to be 12 in world now not in top 200 !
(the government got involved need I say more).

DirtFarmer Loc: Escaped from the NYC area, back to MA

coullone wrote:

Started two months ago and seems OK most of the time. You must have a good internet connection otherwise it is a waste of time. Sometimes get frustrated with (lack of)speed and go back to my local Light Room 6.0, Speed factor of about 3 times faster.
If your internet is poor do not bother!
Australia's Internet is very definitely slow and very expensive, used to be 12 in world now not in top 200 !
(the government got involved need I say more).

Sounds like you're using LR (old LR Mobile) rather than LR Classic. Although you need occasional internet connection to validate your subscription, LR Classic resides on your computer, the files reside on your computer and the only thing you might need internet for is synchronizing with the mobile versions.

PhilS

Don't forget the tight integration between PS, LR and the other apps in CC. I subscribe to the total package. It's not cheap but it gives me the ability to also do vector graphics and integrate my pix into printed and online docs (think books and brochures). With Premier I can link to my pix to manipulate in complex video along with professional sound capabilities. The only time network speed affects me (I only have DSL - no cable) is when downloading updates, so I generally start them when I'm done for the day. Before switching to the subscription model, watch for occasional deals on Adobe's website.

DirtFarmer Loc: Escaped from the NYC area, back to MA

PhilS wrote:

Don't forget the tight integration between PS, LR and the other apps in CC. I subscribe to the total package. It's not cheap but it gives me the ability to also do vector graphics and ...

Actually the total package is fairly cheap if you need all that stuff.
But I suspect most photographers, like me, just use LR/PS and ignore even those things that look to me like they're included in the photographers package:
Fonts, Behance, Portfolio, Stock, Spark, Color, Adobe Live, and Lightroom Web

anotherview Loc: California

Besides Photoshop, the subscription to Photoshop Creative Cloud includes Adobe Camera Raw, Adobe Bridge, and Lightroom, along with Creative Cloud. This latter program functions as the downloader for PCC.

DirtFarmer wrote:

Actually the total package is fairly cheap if you need all that stuff.
But I suspect most photographers, like me, just use LR/PS and ignore even those things that look to me like they're included in the photographers package:
Fonts, Behance, Portfolio, Stock, Spark, Color, Adobe Live, and Lightroom Web