Adobe Creative Cloud?

For $50 a month you get access to all the newest adobe apps. Anybody join yet? PS6 served me well for over 10 years, but i might finally upgrade

https://creative.adobe.com/plans

 

I guess it depends on what you're doing. $600 per year isn't cheap. And there's *lots* of free or cheap alternatives these days.

OTOH, nothing to lose with the 30 day trial - Give it a go and report back?

Cheers,
Ian

 

I want to own my software, not rent it and have nothing at the end of the day if I choose not to stay on the upgrade habitrail...

 

You're a little too late. If you had signed up by the end of August, it was only $29.99.

 

I wouldn't be surprised if they eventually went to recurring subscription based licences even for locally installed software, at least for their high-end software.

 

I just upgraded from xp to windows 7; figured I'd upgrade ps as well. I'm not one to fix things that aren't broken, so I'm not entirely sold on their new revenue model. Have you tried it?

 

I have ArchiCAD v7.5, bought in 2000, price around $4K. I think it's up to v16 or so by now. What I have is basically the same software and works fine when I need use it. Luckily, the license is a perpetual one and I'm not forced to upgrade.

 

i completely forgot to take advantage of that, meant to upgrade my sketchbook to pro, dang

 

It may be unbroken yet not fully functional.

From a photography perspective, they don't push Camera RAW compatibility to older versions of the software. For example if you bought a shiny new Nikon D4, I believe you need Camera RAW 7 which is only supported on Photoshop CS6.

That's a huge reason I recommend people at least use Lightroom: it's cheap to keep current and it can do the rendering before a photo gets worked in PS.

 

Just barely made the deadline by a few hours. I haven't had a chance to try out all of the
goodies yet. As far as cost is concerned, commission on my first project should pay for it
and then some.