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Buying Adobe Photoshop CS6

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Re: Buying Adobe Photoshop CS6

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Post by greggman »

callmevlad wrote: post #31

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.)

$1900 (which version?)

Are you buying new or upgrading? Checking their website the upgrade is only $525. As they only come out with a new version about once every 2 years that. $525 to upgrade vs $720 for a 2 year subscription.

Even if you were purchasing new it's still cheaper to pay outright.

6 years at $30 a month for the first year + $50 for the next 5 is $3360

1900 + 2 upgrades at 525 is $2950

Re: Buying Adobe Photoshop CS6

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Post by DavidAbrams »

esusatyo wrote: post #35
coenhyde wrote: post #7

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…

Perhaps this kind of stories is what makes the App Store very successful.

But it's not without its idiotic blunders. Topping the list is Apple's insistence that your user ID be an E-mail address. That's not just a bad idea, but it has resulted in untold numbers of people with numerous Apple IDs and content bought with all of them.

Re: Buying Adobe Photoshop CS6

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Post by jaems33 »

tomjen3 wrote: post #50
elithrar wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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…

Considering that gimp is out as 2.8 now, and will properly hit 3.0 before this mythical competitor can be written, what does Photoshop have that Gimp doesn't?

Quite a bit. Looking at GIMP's roadmap:

- Improvements in the text handling

- Automatic layer boundary management

- Filter layers and "Layer effects"

- Non-destructive editing

- Auto-anchoring of floating selection - or better, get rid of floating selections!

- Script recording and playback

- "Smart objects"

Even for me as a mere moderate power-user (I design websites/apps and do photo adjustments), there's four things on that list that are absolutely essential. And I'm willing to pay the extra dollars for it given how it enhances the final product.

Re: Buying Adobe Photoshop CS6

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Post by christoph »

callmevlad wrote: post #31

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.)

Same here. Two of us bought Creative Cloud a week ago. We were up and running as quickly as we could download it.

Re: Buying Adobe Photoshop CS6

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Post by freshnote »

The last two times I've reinstalled CS4 on my PC, I've had to call Adobe support (I recall having to root around the website for a phone number). Both times, the support person requested to remote log into my computer so they could reinstate the serial number.

I allowed it, but wasn't happy about the invasion of privacy.

Re: Buying Adobe Photoshop CS6

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Post by timr »

michaelpinto wrote: post #20
droithomme wrote: post #15

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 remember that so well! Adobe was brilliant: They gave away InDesign for next to nothing -- made it THE upgrade path to their PageMaker users and owned the market. My understanding was that Quark was a private company so they never had the cash to go after Adobe, also unlike Adobe they were a one product company (and their multimedia offering was terrible).

Believe it or not, Quark initiated a takeover attempt of Adobe around 1998 or so. Adobe had been hurting pretty badly at the time, and their stock was so low that Quark thought that they might be able to buy them and take them private.

I was there...they herded everyone down to an all-hands meeting, and announced that they had made an unsolicited offer to buy Adobe. The room went nuts, but I remember a few of the more senior developers grumbling that it was insane (which it was. Adobe had a poison pill, and even if it hadn't, the stock leapt as soon as the news of the offer hit the wire. Quark never had a chance.)

Three years later, of course, Fred Ebrahimi fired most of the development staff, and the rest is history.

Re: Buying Adobe Photoshop CS6

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Post by mung »

AJ007 wrote: post #27
coenhyde wrote: post #7

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…

Adobe has started to remind me of Microsoft in other ways in the last few years. Lots of applications that you have no idea what they are for, stuff that doesn't work or gives you some awful experience that sidetracks you from the simple task of what you were trying to originally do. Lots of interrupting dialog boxes and a lack of consistency. Oh and reinventing everything with every iteration.

So for example, a very MS experience in an Adobe app might be wanting to view the online help. Loads Help application. Oh, Help needs updating waits. Help is an Air app. Oh, now Air wants to update waits. Right, all done. Oh, no local help files, and can't seem to see the ones that are local for other apps. Whoa 700mb of help files to be downloaded, I think I'll just view the online version. Taking ages... Now nothing is showing. Gets's some content. Why was I here again? It's honestly easier to just open a browser and google it.

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