A heads up on a storm brewing for those of you who use professional Adobe products. It seems they recently decided that if you don't currently use Photoshop CS 5 or 5.5, then you won't be eligible for upgrade pricing when CS6 is released (grrrr). Also applies to their other CS products.
Seems it's designed to force you to upgrade to their latest version (5.5) now, move to their 'cloud' subscription, or ultimately have to fork out and pay full price again. (Their old upgrade policy allowed you to slip a couple of full versions behind and still upgrade, but it now seems they're classing a point upgrade as a full version - ie CS5 and CS5.5 count as two versions .)
For more on the story, head on over to the ZDNet article.
For those who may want to join the upgrade bandwagon and feed Adobe's Christmas bonus, it would also seem they are doing a 20%-30% off upgrade pricing depending on where/when they send you any e-mails with links in them.
Hi Nick it would have to be free, as that's the only time I will get any adobe product, at lest Dick Turpin had the decency to ware a mask when he took your money.
Phil.
Posted by Mike Smith on November 23, 2011 at 11:48 AM
Given I am still running CS2 on a steam powered laptop, I stopped playing this Adobe game years ago .
Having recently upgraded to a newer laptop alternative solutions woudl be appreciated,as I cannot transfer my processing software - another poor reason for lack of postings by me......
The Adobe Gotcha.... Kelby has written an open letter to them pointing out that many do not upgrade as a new version comes out but usually wait for at least two... Adobe has been holding users to ransom in a way for ages, as soon as a new version comes out then support for camera raw stops on the previous version.
I was lucky in that our license used to cover me at home too but I have just changed platform and the Museum has minimal support for Mac... The answer for me was Lightroom and Elements 10... Elements actually does everything I want from a pixel editor...
Still tied to Adobe, but a more affordable upgrade route and to be honest I do not miss CS when doing my own photography...
Think... Many photographers only use probably less than 10% of what is possible with a full version of Photoshop... also how many legit copies are in use?
Also a bit confused as to why you cannot transfer CS2 to your new machine Mike, but an alternative is Elements for a much more reasonable £75...
Phil is right about usage of Photoshop CS. I'll wager I only use 2% of its potential (and I only have the CS version). In fact I have now bought Lightroom and since having that, CS hardly gets used at all. I try as much as possible to get the image in the camera so that I can spend the minimal amount of time on the computer (which I cannot stand to be honest). Who ever said that digital photography is so much cheaper than film must have been 'aving a larf.
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5 repliesSeems it's designed to force you to upgrade to their latest version (5.5) now, move to their 'cloud' subscription, or ultimately have to fork out and pay full price again. (Their old upgrade policy allowed you to slip a couple of full versions behind and still upgrade, but it now seems they're classing a point upgrade as a full version - ie CS5 and CS5.5 count as two versions
For more on the story, head on over to the ZDNet article.
For those who may want to join the upgrade bandwagon and feed Adobe's Christmas bonus, it would also seem they are doing a 20%-30% off upgrade pricing depending on where/when they send you any e-mails with links in them.
Phil.
Having recently upgraded to a newer laptop alternative solutions woudl be appreciated,as I cannot transfer my processing software - another poor reason for lack of postings by me......
What's the problem with transferring CS2 over Mike?
I was lucky in that our license used to cover me at home too but I have just changed platform and the Museum has minimal support for Mac... The answer for me was Lightroom and Elements 10... Elements actually does everything I want from a pixel editor...
Still tied to Adobe, but a more affordable upgrade route and to be honest I do not miss CS when doing my own photography...
Think... Many photographers only use probably less than 10% of what is possible with a full version of Photoshop... also how many legit copies are in use?
Also a bit confused as to why you cannot transfer CS2 to your new machine Mike, but an alternative is Elements for a much more reasonable £75...