If you are on CS4 or earlier and planned to go to CS6, check this out:
Adobe revamps upgrade policy for Photoshop CS6, other CS6 applications
http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/con...=7-11667-12100
Roger
If you are on CS4 or earlier and planned to go to CS6, check this out:
Adobe revamps upgrade policy for Photoshop CS6, other CS6 applications
http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/con...=7-11667-12100
Roger
Last edited by Roger Clark; 11-12-2011 at 02:08 PM.
And direct from Adobe:
http://blogs.adobe.com/conversations...ml?PID=2159997
Roger
Roger,
These people are an absolute disgrace , I dread to think how much I have paid for upgrades over the years.
They are allready expensive enough , now we are expected to pay around $200 every 18 months, just how much money do they meed?
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I would have happily stayed with PS CS3 it's the improvements in ACR that I upgrade for when I went to CS5. Now my choices are to keep upgrading even if they do not have a product that I feel is worth the upgrade price or to switch over to LR3 to keep using the current versions of ACR or the third one to abandon them completely and go with aperture or capture one for RAW conversions. People do not like having something taken away from them especially if they feel it's only a money grab I think Adobe is going to have the same PR nightmare on their hands that Netflix had when it comes to customer service
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I was going to wait until CS6 to upgrade. I decided as a result of this new policy to upgrade to CS5 with the rather deep discounts Adobe is offering. With tax and shipping (I like to have the DVDs) it is about $250 for CS5 and LR3. This should give me the ability to upgrade to CS6 at the end of its run - probably around late 2014. Now I will most likely be retired then, so if CS6 doesn't offer any really can't live without benefits I will most likely not upgrade for a long time. If we all wait 3 cycles we can buy the full priced new version and be even after 3 skip cycles and about 6-7 years.
This will also drive the use of DNG format. As new cameras come out with the older versions of CS and LR not interpreting the newer RAW files, converting them to DNG then processing in LR or CS will prove a work around to mandatory software upgrade when a new camera is purchased.
Ed, you make excellent points. Until recently all my raw files were immediately converted to DNG because Adobe refused to upgrade the raw converter on CS3 to match my newer cameras.
However, I found myself in a Catch22 situation needing Intel processors for certain business upgrades, finding my old CS3 wouldn't run on Lion, therefore needing CS5. Touchy subject really!![]()
Sorry for the double post, but I have been thiinking about this even more and have drawn a comparison to the Microsoft Office Suite. Regular upgrades to Office have been intorduced every few years and previously they came pre bundled with new hardware. Now they load "trial versions". I know I am not alone in largely ignoring these upgrades. I have been using office 2003 since 2003 and find it fits my needs well. My latest desk top was ordered from Puget Systems that will not load any software you don't want. This was a huge benefit to me. Of course my travel lap top had the office trial versions which sit there ignored.
So, the point of this is not to digress and change the topic, but to point out that more and more people will ignore PhotoShop upgrades and stay with the older versions. Adobe's emphasis on their "cloud" model may work for high level photo pros and graphic arts pros but fails for most of us nature photographers who are not actually showing black ink on our balance sheets at the end of the year. This of course means that Adobe may have actually hurt their bottom line for the future. This year and next the upgrading will occur. After that I predict a major drop in upgrading and therefore less revenue flow for Adobe.
Ok enough rambling!
Photoshop upgrades, a scam for sure as we know once the code is written it doesn't take long to recoup the development and research dollars and time. I retired from Bell Labs and believe me the markup on software is out of control in this country. ... I happen to have CS5 thanks to my younger daughter who is still in college working on her Masters and my bank account so I plan to stay with what I got along with Nik and Imagenomic products.
Here is a link to a letter sent to Adobe by Scott Kelby sums up the situation we all face quite succinctly. I wonder if he got a response?
http://www.scottkelby.com/blog/2011/archives/22903
Seems like those generous people at Adobe have had a slight change of heart
http://www.adobe.com/products/creativesuite/faq/upgrade-policy.html?PID=4165004
Bibble has been bought by Corel, and it will be incorporated into After Shot Pro
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Last edited by Ken Watkins; 01-31-2012 at 10:31 PM.