GaryJP

You are missing the point. I am talking about governments being able to screw up your access to PROGRAMS.

"However there are no alternatives to InDesign and/or Premiere. " Dunno about InDesign, but I have to telly you you're wrong about Premiere. I like it and use it, but more pros use Avid or Final...

"However there are no alternatives to InDesign and/or Premiere. " Dunno about InDesign, but I have to tell you you're wrong about Premiere. I like it and use it, but more pros use Avid or Final...

"However there are no alternatives to InDesign and/or Premiere. " Dunno about InDesign, but I have to tell you you're wrong about Premiere. I like it and use it, but more pros use Avid or Final...

If this doesn't affect you, maybe a camera phone is all you need.

It's not just the US government. Would you trust your ability to get access to the internet to make say, photographic political parodies, if you lived in ANY totalitarian state? This puts a new...

Wrong. Adobe has admitted this will not stop piracy. And the program WILL be downloaded onto your computer. There will be pirated versions on the street in HK before you have a legit one.

They don't just rent you the film.

Photographers do reach 60... if the wild life does not catch up with them first.

I am talking about the old practice of holding people's negatives to ransom, just like Adobe holds your Adobe proprietary files to ransom. But I know wedding photogs won't like the comparison,...

I am talking about the old practice of holding people's negatives to ransom, just like Adobe holds your Adobe proprietary files to ransom. But I know wedding photogs won't like the comparison,...

Except that FCPX was just as big an expression of corporate arrogance as is this.

Except that FCPX was just as big an expression of corporate arrogance as is this. They shafted generations of their corporate users by switching paradigms and trying to just dumb the previous Final...

However, while there are good deals on alternatives, why not start learning them? There is no indication Adobe's ethics will improve so now is a good time to start on a MUCH cheaper upgrade path.

But, traditionally, if you want to return to your negatives without their help you are screwed. You will still get your "prints" with Photoshop.

So Photoshop becomes XBox.

For RAW conversion I flit between Lightroom, Capture One, and Aperture, depending on work station and project as much as anything. I like Lightroom and will use it until they pull it into the...

For RAW conversion I flit between Lightroom, Capture One, and Aperture, depending on work station and project as much as anything. I like Lightroom, even though I detest Adobe for the moment, and...

For RAW conversion I flit between Lightroom, Capture One, and Aperture, depending on work station and project as much as anything. I like Lightroom, even though I detest Adobe for the moment, and...

For RAW conversion I flit between Lightroom, Capture One, and Aperture, depending on work station and project as much as anything. I like Lightroom, even though I detest Adobe for the moment, and...