Ysarex Loc: St. Louis

Just finished removing Adobe Creative Cloud and all apps from my computer. I have had Photoshop on my computer for 30 years. I started teaching it in 1992. I've rarely had to pay for it as my employer picked up that tab. The CC account and apps I just deleted were payed for by the college where I teach/taught.

But that's the rub. I stopped teaching because of the pandemic. Last Spring we went to on-line which I dislike and so in Fall I chose to not teach at all. This Spring semester I again decided to not teach so that's a full year away. The college was still paying for my Adobe account and I imagine they'd keep me on the roster but I've made the decision to stay fully retired.

I personally moved away from LR and PS years ago and prefer to do as much of my editing using C1 as I can. But I always kept LR and PS installed because I needed them in the classroom. Well this morning I decided it's final and time to close the door behind me. I'm still listed in the faculty directory but I think this chapter is closing.

Wow, desktop just doesn't look the same without those LR, PS icons. Going to take some getting used to.

JFCoupe Loc: Kent, Washington

Well, it is unfortunate that the pandemic led to the end of your teaching career. I can understand that on-line instructing is completely different from the personal interaction in the classroom.

Have fun taking photographs and processing them in post. My nine years of retirement have been the best times, so soon you will never miss the LR/PS icons on your desktop.

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

While I'm a fan of Adobe, I recognize that if you don't use it there's no reason to pay for it.

Personally I would not miss a couple icons on my screen if they are something I wouldn't use anyway. My desktop clutter changes roughly monthly as I try new things and discard old things (and maybe those new things too).

Delderby Loc: Derby UK

You can now move up to Affinity

Wilderness Images Loc: Apache Junction, AZ.

Congratulations on your retirement, here's hoping you will now have the time to spend enjoying your skills.

dpfoto Loc: Cape Coral, FL

While I do have the subscription version of PS & LR, I find I use PS5, PS6, and LR 5.7.1 more than the subscription versions.

Naptown Gaijin

[quote=Ysarex]I started teaching it in 1992. I've rarely had to pay for it as my employer picked up that tab. The CC account and apps I just deleted were payed for by the college where I teach/taught.

"Payed"? Glad you taught photography and not English. :-)

Ysarex Loc: St. Louis

[quote=Naptown Gaijin]

There were times in the past when I had to buy my own academic edition of software, but when Adobe went subscription a lot of colleges bought into the Enterprise edition and enrolled staff and faculty. So I have a college Adobe account letting me use any of Adobe's software. Doesn't mean much if it's all stuff I don't need. I started the move away from Adobe in 2012 when I started using Capture One. For me it was fundamentally a choice between LR versus C1 and C1 won.

Ysarex Loc: St. Louis

I long ago moved past Affinity Photo -- that's a raster editor and I process only raw files. I also really don't like destructive editing. I will use it when the odd occasion arises that I need a raster editor.

Guyserman Loc: Benton, AR

[quote=Naptown Gaijin]
Do you feel best now?

xt2 Loc: British Columbia, Canada

Congrats on retirement Yserex!!! Wishing you a wonderfully fulfilling “next chapter.” I dumped Adobe a long time ago and much prefer C1, Luminar 4, Luminar AI, and other apps for my photography, but this is what makes our world so good right now...personal choice.

Cheers!

rmalarz Loc: Tempe, Arizona

I'm too vested in customized applications and mods to Adobe to just dump them. That would mean having to start over with years of work thrown out.
--Bob

TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC

Congratulations on retirement - now every day will be Saturday!

StanMac Loc: Tennessee

[quote=Naptown Gaijin]

This is another example of the strange idioms of the English language and its spelling. Ysarex is actually correct, but the archaic form is not a fixture in our language today. Somewhere, sometime an English scholar decided that the past participle of the simple word "payed" had to be different for some reason. From a Google search on the forms of the word "pay" at wordhippo.com:

"The past tense of pay is paid or payed (archaic). The third-person singular simple present indicative form of pay is pays. The present participle of pay is paying. The past participle of pay is paid or payed (archaic)."

Some of you UHHers who are English scholars may chime in if you like.

Stan

selmslie Loc: Fernandina Beach, FL, USA

That's what Adobe is counting on.

I moved to Capture One as soon as Adobe said they would no longer support Windows XP about seven years ago, long before they switched to the subscription mode.

It was also apparent to me that Adobe did not know how or did not want to bother supporting the perpetual license mode on more than one platform of Windows. In my experience that could only mean that they did not have the talent or the commitment to do so.

I use CO with a perpetual license and only upgrade when they come out with a feature I really need. My projected future expense for Capture One will be $0 until that happens.