![]() In order to survive, the corporation must be in the business of selling software upgrades-or rope its customers into paying the monthly Adobe protection fee in perpetuity. That's worse than the suite concept.Īdobe has ceased to be in the business of selling software applications. I find the mere thought of committing to paying a monthly tribute to Adobe for the rest of my life simply abhorrent. The subscription concept is a terrible idea from my point of view. That's how I ended up with Photoshop 13.0.1 and ACR 7.2RC1 for the single price of the Photoshop CS5 upgrade.Ĭamera support is not an issue for me, as my older cameras are already supported and my newer ones shoot DNGs natively anyway. ![]() Then came the amazing rendering of raw files in ACR 7.x, and I jumped at the opportunity to upgrade to Photoshop CS5.1 with the promise of a free upgrade to Photoshop CS6 just a few weeks later. When Photoshop 12.x ("CS5") came out, I was totally underwhelmed, and ACR 6.x didn't move me to upgrade at all. Then came some great advances and new features in ACR 5.x, so I upgraded to Photoshop 11.x ("CS4") just to get the latest ACR. I thought I was going to stick with that version for ever. I do not need any of the Photoshop features beyond those of Ps 10.x. To be even more frank, I have been paying for the Photoshop upgrades after Photoshop 10.x ("CS3") only in order to get the latest version of ACR. I know I had to wait 5 months go get cs6 and not cs5.5 but nothing to do now. Was not for experts as you, but for newbies like me. I need your advice, what is the cheapest way to have camera raw 7.1 or 7.2 and future cs6 upgrades for camera raw as you know I have cs5.5 production premium and I don't require the full upgrade to cs6.Īnd my advice. Now I am feeling worst, because the subscription option is from my point of view the best option but I didn't took it.īut as you commented I don't need the whole suite as I don't need a subscription to all products, if I have an option to take a subscription only for photoshop and camera raw of course by a fraction of the price sure I will take it, but again what should I pay for a full hotel if I only require a room. But in adobe world is is not, again my fault. I was misinformed and it was my fault, for my a plugin compared with the whole suit is just a minor patch. Caveat emptor.Īll of You are right, it was my mistake, I took the choice to buy that suite, because I am impressed by the quality of adobe products, I am still impressed but I use to have another levels of support on mayor software producer like oracle, the support life for their product are almost 10 years. That was your choice when you fell for the suite concept. If you bought into the suite gimmick, I can see why you are upset at being faced with a major expenditure just to upgrade to the latest version of ACR now. The fact that they have little if any communication among them is highlighted by requests occasionally made in these forums by top Adobe engineers to let the other teams know when there are problems in one application that impact our workflow in another one. The engineering teams are totally independent of each other, they are not only in different buildings but in different cities and states of the American Union, even in different countries. Inconsistency between or among applications in the artificial " suites" should come as no surprise. ![]() The " suite" concept is an invention of Adobe marketing and bean-counting types. What I have not done is fall pray to the mindless buying into a "suite" concept. I also paid full price for Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign and Adobe Acrobat Pro, and I only upgraded them as my needs warranted. Like any other honest, mere mortal, I've been paying full price for each upgrade to a new version of Photoshop since I started using it a decade ago or so. How much did you paid, i paid more than 18 hundred bucks 10 months ago for the CSC5.5 production premium suit. ![]()
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