Posted by Richard Ditch on August 11, 2015 at 5:02 PM
I'm about ready to bite the bullet and subscribe to Photshop and Lightroom "in the cloud." But I was unable to find basic information on the Adobe website to fundamental questions:
Do I have to buy CC 2015, or can I buy CC2014? Both are described under system requirements.
How many computers are allowed wih a single subscription? Desktop plus laptop at least?
Do they have to be the same version on all computers (my desktop won't run CC2015)?
Once installed and initially registered do I need an internet connection to use them?
What happens to my old stand-alone Photoshop CS3? Does it get overwritten or deleted? Can I still use it if I wanted to?
Posted by Keith Bauer on August 11, 2015 at 5:19 PM
1) When you subscribe you will get the latest version, so CC 2015. CC 2014 is a prior version
2) You can have it installed on 2 machines and be using them at the same time. Any more than 2 will not be permitted via the cloud installation.
3) I believe the answer is yes, they need to be the same version. If your desktop won't run CC 2015, why? Old OS?
4) You need to be on the internet once in a while for the software to validate that you have a valid, paid up subscription. I believe that interval is once every 30 days. Other than that, you don't need any internet connection except to receive updates.
5) CS3 is left alone. The new software will be installed in a different directory
Posted by Richard Ditch on August 12, 2015 at 1:14 AM
Thanks, Keith. That's about as I expected.
I do most of my work now on a Macbook Pro running OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). PS CS3 still works on it and I haven't bought a camera newer than my pair of Nikon D300 bodies. Any newer Nikon needs a version of ACR not compatible with CS3. If I upgrade the MB Pro to 10.10 9 (Yosemite) CS3 supposedly still functions, but loses a couple more features.
I also have an older iMac (late 2006) still running OS 10.6.5 (Snow Leopard). I can upgrade it to 10.7 but not beyond. I still use a couple of apps on it that won't run on any OS later than 10.6. I have my eye on a couple of newer iMacs that run Yosemite in case I want PS CC 2015 on two machines.
Its an old story: a new camera, but that woukd require new software, and that requires a newer computer. It is times like this that I sort of miss Kodachrome.
Richard, just remember, if you choose to leave Adobe CC ie stop paying a monthly subscription you will not be able to go back to the images you created with the new software, you never actually own it, unlike previous versions, but hey, I can't see any reason why you would leave as both are great, superb new features and they dovetail seemlessly.
Richard, Adobe has a digital negative converter that is a free download. It is a program that converts any camera raw file from about 350 different cameras to a DNG file, the format that Adobe has tried to get the industry to adopt as a standard for several years without success. They guarantee dng as a legacy format that will work as long as there is an ADOBE. My Canon 7Dii cr2 file format is not supported by PS5 in it's native state, but works fine when converted to DNG. I've seen no down side to the conversion other than an extra step and have used it for years on several machines both PC and Mac
Posted by Keith Bauer on August 12, 2015 at 12:05 PM
I don't understand the comment from Steve above ", if you choose to leave Adobe CC ie stop paying a monthly subscription you will not be able to go back to the images you created with the new software, "??
If you create a PSD file in CC 2015, you can open that file in CS3. The only exception to that might be if you created some layer on it that was using some function that was very specific to new features in CC 2015 that doesn't exist in CS3. At the moment, I can't even think of one that might not work. Maybe someone else can chime in here.....
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5 repliesI'm about ready to bite the bullet and subscribe to Photshop and Lightroom "in the cloud." But I was unable to find basic information on the Adobe website to fundamental questions:
1) When you subscribe you will get the latest version, so CC 2015. CC 2014 is a prior version
2) You can have it installed on 2 machines and be using them at the same time. Any more than 2 will not be permitted via the cloud installation.
3) I believe the answer is yes, they need to be the same version. If your desktop won't run CC 2015, why? Old OS?
4) You need to be on the internet once in a while for the software to validate that you have a valid, paid up subscription. I believe that interval is once every 30 days. Other than that, you don't need any internet connection except to receive updates.
5) CS3 is left alone. The new software will be installed in a different directory
Thanks, Keith. That's about as I expected.
I do most of my work now on a Macbook Pro running OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). PS CS3 still works on it and I haven't bought a camera newer than my pair of Nikon D300 bodies. Any newer Nikon needs a version of ACR not compatible with CS3. If I upgrade the MB Pro to 10.10 9 (Yosemite) CS3 supposedly still functions, but loses a couple more features.
I also have an older iMac (late 2006) still running OS 10.6.5 (Snow Leopard). I can upgrade it to 10.7 but not beyond. I still use a couple of apps on it that won't run on any OS later than 10.6. I have my eye on a couple of newer iMacs that run Yosemite in case I want PS CC 2015 on two machines.
Its an old story: a new camera, but that woukd require new software, and that requires a newer computer. It is times like this that I sort of miss Kodachrome.
Richard, just remember, if you choose to leave Adobe CC ie stop paying a monthly subscription you will not be able to go back to the images you created with the new software, you never actually own it, unlike previous versions, but hey, I can't see any reason why you would leave as both are great, superb new features and they dovetail seemlessly.
Richard, Adobe has a digital negative converter that is a free download. It is a program that converts any camera raw file from about 350 different cameras to a DNG file, the format that Adobe has tried to get the industry to adopt as a standard for several years without success. They guarantee dng as a legacy format that will work as long as there is an ADOBE. My Canon 7Dii cr2 file format is not supported by PS5 in it's native state, but works fine when converted to DNG. I've seen no down side to the conversion other than an extra step and have used it for years on several machines both PC and Mac
DNG info here:
https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/digital-negative.html
I don't understand the comment from Steve above ", if you choose to leave Adobe CC ie stop paying a monthly subscription you will not be able to go back to the images you created with the new software, "??
If you create a PSD file in CC 2015, you can open that file in CS3. The only exception to that might be if you created some layer on it that was using some function that was very specific to new features in CC 2015 that doesn't exist in CS3. At the moment, I can't even think of one that might not work. Maybe someone else can chime in here.....