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(Also, paying $30 per month vs $1900+ up front seems to be a hell of a deal.)
I chose the download option just because I thought it would've been really simple: I assumed I would pay, then their shopping cart system would immediately give me a license key and a download URL. This assumption was based on the fact that I was going to spend $800 on a piece of software and it seemed like a reasonable expectation that there'd be a quick turnaround.
Noope. Someone apparently had to manually review the order, so that a license key and download link would make it to my email at some indeterminate period of time in the future. And of course, I bought it on the Saturday of a 3-day holiday weekend, so it wasn't until that Tuesday afternoon that a human punched the magical "fulfill order" button.
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Feel free to bump the text size up. The site's layout will adjust accordingly :) And, for the record, the background is white, and #333333 meets the criteria of both the W3C and the WCAG ( http://www.snook.ca/technical/colour_contrast/colour.html?fg... ) Thanks for reading!
the color contrast might meet the criteria, but the font weight and font face certainly aren't helping.
All of that said, I do intend to redesign the site with a larger font size. But, in the meantime, a little CMD (or CRTL) + + will go a long way ;)
Not sure if it's just me, but I had absolutely no trouble going through the checkout process and just finished installing several of the apps. I was never asked for a serial number for Photoshop - it seems to be baked in if you install through their installer and log in with your Adobe ID. (Also, paying $30 per month vs $1900+ up front seems to be a hell of a deal.)
I've been trying to buy Creative Cloud for the last month. And frankly I've given up. I've gone back to Pixelmator. I own CS3 and was entitled to the one year discount. However my account at adobe where my copy of CS3 is registered was created many years go and appears to be incompatible with their current systems. My account information says I'm from the USA, which is incorrect, I'm from Australia. So when I try to…
Many years ago the number one page layout program was Quark Xpress. The company decided to save money by firing all their employees who developed the program and were familiar with the code base and save money by outsourcing all development to a code team overseas who was not familiar with page layout software or the Mac platform Quark ran on. This outsourcing team would appear on development boards asking extremely…
I don't know if that's true, but even if I take your word that it is, this really has nothing to do with the OP's problem, which is order fulfillment and not the actual Creative Suite software.
And as a user of quite a bit of Adobe's CS software (I have a full CS6 Creative Cloud license for a year due to attending Adobe Max last year and had CS5.0 prior to that), I don't see too many signs of what occurred with Quark when it comes to the quality of new releases. The Creative Suite software is all pretty good year over year and generally improves more than regresses, and this is true up to and including CS6, IMO. Granted, one could argue each new release doesn't offer a ton more than the past release (especially considering the premium upgrade pricing), but that's true of virtually any mature commercial software product.
This seems like another arena that's incredibly practical, ripe for disruption and one of those "hard ideas" that PG talks about that people naturally shy away from, but has real market potential. Forget the next SoLoMo craze - who wants to disrupt Adobe? They need it. "Adobe is Lazy" - Steve Jobs ( http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/01/googles-dont-be-evil-... )
> Forget the next SoLoMo craze - who wants to disrupt Adobe? They need it. I agree. As a photographer, I use Lightroom and Photoshop for most of my post-processing needs. Lightroom, when it hit, barely felt like an Adobe application (it's great), but Photoshop has always been a nightmare of crashes. CS5 on OS X is especially bad. As an experiment, I tried to use (only) Lightroom and Pixelmator[1], which is the closes…
http://www.gimp.org/
While I agree that most private users and to some point professionals can also accomplish the same results in Gimp as in Photoshop stuff like Bridge, the Creative Cloud and all those tools around the core applications makes the suites so valuable for designers that just do not want to roll their own sync / management / foo solution with even more software.
I've been trying to buy Creative Cloud for the last month. And frankly I've given up. I've gone back to Pixelmator. I own CS3 and was entitled to the one year discount. However my account at adobe where my copy of CS3 is registered was created many years go and appears to be incompatible with their current systems. My account information says I'm from the USA, which is incorrect, I'm from Australia. So when I try to…
This reminds me of Microsoft's "cloud" offerings. The last version of Office I bought, I bought online, its undownloadable. There is no CD key in the account. A few years ago I used Office Live. Its shut down and (may be) named 365 or you are supposed to use Office 365. I don't know. I once used "Microsoft Online" which was just a hosted Exchange server. The goal was to use the web based email, along with Outlook on…
1) Pay
2) Receive email
3) Use download link to get installer (1 .exe package)
4) Use serial included in the email during install