Subscriptions services always bait you with low prices in the beginning, and they switch later. Later still, they will increase it mercilessly. That has always been the suffrage of all customers of subscription services, namely Electric, Phone, Cell Phone, Cable TV, Water, Garbage Collection Services, Natural Gas, Home Insurance, Auto Insurance, Health Insurance et al.
But Macs in general are designed as one button machines. For instance my Mac Pro's touchpad has two "buttons", one on each side of the touchpad; running Windows Bootcamp allows both left and right clicks using the touchpad like any other Windows laptop, BUT when you're running OSX even if you click the right side of the touchpad it still is a left click! As such software for Macs have to take that into consideration.
You don't have to let LR catalogue your images. I dislike LR for other reasons but I had to use it to discover those reasons and I did so from my own file structure with no bother.
If you buy you can do so from a disk but many people choose to download from the web; if you subscribe to CC the only way to download is from the web. So what you say is technically true.
If you start from scratch with CC - that is, as a new user - I don't know what happens to PSDs. If you move to CC from an earlier version of PS, which you still own, then leaving CC you revert to the old version but may lose anything that involved updated process.
Apple's human interface guidelines do not prohibit secondary-click functionality. The guidelines do discourage offering functionality only on secondary-click menus, so that novices can get by with just a single mouse button, if they prefer. That implies that if you are writing a word processor, it is no fair to put the Spell Check and Grammar Check functions only on a right-click menu, leaving novices to wonder where they have gone. But if you put them on the main menus and also on a contextual menu (for quick access), that would be more acceptable.
Enabling right-clicking on a MacBook Pro touchpad is not difficult. You just change a setting in System Preferences – in this case, in the Trackpad panel.
Exactly, and THAT is exactly what I do not like... importing, so you can catalog them. I just want to point my raw converter at a folder of raws and say have at it. No fuss, no muss.
Well listen to this. Most people don't want to rent software. You have angered them. I don't want you in my pocket every month or year, and I don't want my (actually in this case, your) software turning off when I don't pay.
Ok, what do you mean? That you can purchase the software and not have to pay a monthly or yearly subscription fee and the software will continue to work until the end of time with no as long as you don't update it.
If you are buying this software, wouldn't it be important to know? But I think we all know what happens. this statement also goes against what you said earlier, the software continues to work even if you don't pay.
Oh, everyone wants that sign me up. Uhg..
If you are happy with this Gerry, fine. I choose the old method where someone makes something, you buy it and own it. Corel does this, you can choose to upgrade or not. The do not hold you or your images hostage unless you pay them. I like that better.
Adobe CC is not cloud-based software. The applications are downloaded to your computer from Adobe's servers and they run on your computer just as if you had installed them from a disk.
Actually, most do, adobe is pretty pleased with its sales. But don't let facts get in the way of your rant. And the idea that corel is as good is joke, there is a reason they barely survived.
I'm happy with the CC model (see my earlier post in the thread) but I don't think your logic stands up. People were rarely "forced" to update, if ever. It's true that as CS was updated older versions couldn't be used directly with newer cameras but the free DNG converter was a way round that.
People bought CS6 at a time when purchase was the Adobe model. Adobe should be free to change its model but not free to disenfranchise people who bought in good faith. Adobe has always provided support for previous versions for a period before withdrawing it (typically three versions or 4-5 years) and that seems a reasonable period to continue support for CS6.
Both models force you to pay for what you get if you want to get it. Both models have advantages (and advocates); both have drawbacks (and critics). I don't think there's any abstract way of saying which is inherently better: CC suits me but I can understand that it doesn't suit everyone.
Most people don't like it because it will cost them more money. You cannot deny that. Not, increased revenues but not just because of more people, increase in per subscriber revenue.
Well, how about Adobe? PS was $20 per month. Today you can get both PS and LR for $10 per month. I don't know about the love part, but it would be foolish for Adobe to not at least like and want to retain paying customers.
They survived by lining up some well timed investors, and by caring about one product, and one product only. PaintShop Pro. Everything else was either bought to enhance PSP or to milk for some instant cash that they could pour into PSP. And it shows in that PSP remains the second most complete and competent editor on the market.
