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okay... fine people the pricing comparison is off-I get that... I wasn't comparing costs. I was comparing the use of professional level tools, being accessible to the enthusiast/hobby...

a good point Howardroark, and of the 2million users on CC, I did hear a report from them half a year ago saying most of those people were new users.

DaveBowman, you never did own the software... you were always a licensee... the subscription is just a longer term of 3-5 years. Only difference is the ET call home feature of the CC software which...

all good points.... I'm well aware of leasing costs myself.

So if the cost of this dropped to $11 per month how much uproar would there still be?

I wonder how many people would complain if you could use a new Nikon D800E, Nikon D4, Canon 1Dx or a Canon 5Dmk3 for $19 a month and then after a year decided to return it?

on the other hand, if by what many on these forums are saying is that they as enthusiast or 'amateurs' are being left in the dark by Adobe, then this is a win for you. Access to the software will...

Of course this assumes that everyone that answered the poll are using Photoshop and are current licensees. With my experience of statistics, I would say there's an error of 20% and probably going...

Of course this assumes that everyone that answered the poll are using Photoshop and are current licensees. With my experience of statistics, I would say there's an error of 20% and probably going...

you never did own the software... you licensed it. It also doesn't stop you from saving it to an open standard like TIFF.

PSD is just a proprietary TIFF format (TIFF is also owned by...

Assuming that the polls as they stand at 4059, it means that Adobe has approximately .8 million dollars to lose from this forum alone. Keep pushing and maybe Adobe will take notice. However the...

Assuming that the polls as they stand at 4059, it means that Adobe has approximately .8 million dollars to lose from this forum alone. Keep pushing and maybe Adobe will take notice. However...

John, ironically my intellectual property lawyer and I had a conversation where he said that no one reads those, but it echoes much of what many people who think there's a distinction between...

Alternatives to Lightroom:
ACDSee Pro
Capture One
SilkPix
Aperture (Mac only)
Raw Therapee
Bibble (now owned by Corel)

Definitely different here James, I can only claim 30% of depreciated rate per year. Even if I could deduct up toe $500K, you need to have that much income to deduct it. So for single users who make...

Definitely different here James, I can only claim 30% of depreciated rate per year. Even if I could deduct up toe $500K, you need to have that much income to deduct it. So for single users who make...

DNG Converter is still free and not part of the subscription model. You can download it and make all the most current cameras work with versions as far back as CS3

Thumbs up for Capture One, but the layers functions in Capture One is very limited (and also very slow).

If you're using Photoshop for basic image processing, then it was overkill.

you are correct, it isn't about piracy, it's about sustaining their R&D budget. Of course they are a for profit organization.

But the key here is with users only upgrading every 2 or 3 copies, it...

Sometimes I wonder what the world would be like if everyone could afford a tractor for the cost of moped?

The misdirected anger amuses me. If people should be po'd, they should be more po'd by the fact that Adobe lifted the educational license restriction of the past where they could not use it for...