Quantus5

Todd is right -- you have a choice -- if you do not like the Adobe's subscription model -- don't buy Adobe.

We have a choice -- vote with your feet.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

The Adobe CC suites are aimed at businesses and heavy users. It sounds like you are not a good candidate for Adobe software. Look for something else.

All of the major apps work at least somewhat similarly... it only takes a few hours to get familiar with the environment if you are skilled at something similar.

Calling it ‘ransomeware’ ignores TRUE ransomeware, the malware that encrypts your computer until you pay a hefty ransome! It is hardly that.

Haydon

I'm voting by keeping my wallet closed :)

Notorious T.O.D. Loc: Harrisburg, North Carolina

I get it fine... Apple is rolling in cash and charging $1000 for the iPhone X... is that also bad in your mind.
Unless you have been in the software business you don't know what you are even talking about. At $10 a month it probably takes two thousand subscribers to pay for one software engineer and associated overhead for a year. People are not willing to pay the price of a couple Happy Meals to use these tools each month...WOW...

Best,
Todd Ferguson

Notorious T.O.D. Loc: Harrisburg, North Carolina

Haydon,

You get it and are exactly right... each should act in their own self interest...
No one is being forced to do or use anything...
Having been in the software business in the past I think it is a bargain...
Others may or may not...

Best,
Todd Ferguson

sirlensalot Loc: Arizona

Glad I purchased the stand alone LR6 when I did.

Notorious T.O.D. Loc: Harrisburg, North Carolina

I believe that IBM bought Lotus as we had to use that stuff when I worked at IBM years ago... But that is what happens companies get bought up if anything of value is left or to eliminate them all together, or they die and go away. Apple at one time was looking at purchasing Adobe and got into a bunch of issues over PDF files with Adobe. Apple ended up developing their own PDF tools...

Best,
Todd

Haydon

I still have Lotus Organizer 6 from IBM. I'm not doubting the purchase, I am saying the monopoly finished them off much like the demise of Corel's Word Perfect which is virtually invisible now. You probably have a better insight in that matter since you were employed by IBM. I respect that btw.

Ednsb Loc: Santa Barbara

Blood sucking is good description. If you use Lightroom only (like I do) that means you are buying a new license every 7 months (upgrade price for 6 for $70. $70/$10=7) which is absurd. They need to have a Lightroom only SaaS license at about $5/month. I will not pay for PS when I am not using. This is exactly why I've spent months looking at other solutions like On1 Raw, etc.

Bill_de Loc: US

What about using the free Adobe DNG convertor?

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Bill_de Loc: US

I believe the CC Suites like everything else is aimed at as many people who will plunk down $$$. If their customer base for Photoshop CC was reduced to people who really benefit from what it can do, it would be a small fraction of what it is today. They really would not have needed to go to a monthly payment plan otherwise.

They do still offer PS Elements which can handle just about anything the casual photographer needs.

That said, the primary goal of a publicly held company is to maximize shareholder wealth. Adobe seems to be doing a good job.

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Quantus5

Cool! Yes -- another good voting method.

Pgphoto Loc: Brooklyn, NY

all adobe did was give photographers another option to either store your pictures locally or on their cloud service. I have used Lightroom since it came out and am very comfortable with my own storage workflow but I can see some people liking the new Lighroom CC. They kept the price the same for the new classic CC and if goes up in a couple of years so be it what doesn't go up. The product is still cheap for what you get

Pgphoto Loc: Brooklyn, NY

I use Affinity Photo and it was designed to be a photoshop replacement and as time goes on and becomes more refined most photographers could see it as a cheaper alternative. Lightroom is an entirely different program

whitewolfowner

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.