Quoting Malcolm Smith <[email protected]>:
Anyway, given the vast difference in price between the two (I'll come back
to that in a moment), I will be getting a new copy of Lightroom and a 4TB
external hard drive this weekend. Then we come to Photoshop. It appears that
it is now no longer available to buy as usual software, but as a monthly
subscription and use of 'the cloud'. Given that in real terms, external
storage in the TB range is cheap - the 4TB drive I'm getting is far cheaper
than the 500GB drive a bought a couple of years ago - why would you want to
store your work where the provider can either go bust, be hacked or you may
have intermittent access to the internet? I also strongly object to paying a
monthly fee to something I may or may not use on a regular basis. Next I
looked at getting the last software version, but copies of this range from
almost free, to re-funding the Apollo missions. Is there an equivalent to
Photoshop made by someone else who doesn't want to grip you firmly by the
bank account, or have they gripped folk like this as there is no real
alternative?
Well, it's not quite like that.
I signed up for Adobe's "Creative Cloud for Photographers" plan.
$9.99 per month gives me the latest versions of Photoshop and
Lightroom (although I rarely use Lightroom). I was certainly never
going to be able to justify the cost of Photoshop through outright
purchase.
The term 'Creative Cloud' is a misnomer. The software and files
aren't in the 'cloud', they are run and stored on your own computer.
If you decide to cease subscription, your files aren't touched - if
you have saved edited files as jpg or tif, they can still be accessed
by other software. If you saved as psd, earlier versions of Photoshop
will still open them, with the caveat that any features specific to
Photoshop CC wont be recognised in the earlier version.
I was skeptical of the subscription plan at first, but I've changed my mind.
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Cheers
Brian
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Brian Walters
Western Sydney Australia
http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/
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