5d ago

Adobe Creative Cloud subscriptions are getting more expensive

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Adobe Creative Cloud subscriptions are getting more expensive - Hypertext

Adobe has announced pricing changes to its Creative Cloud subscriptions that will take effect from the middle of next month.
It cited “continued innovation” as a reason to overhaul the pricing for its creative software suite.
The changes only affect users in the US, Canada, and Mexico for now.

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Adobe Creative Cloud subscriptions are getting more expensive

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Do you see this guy ?
His name is Shantanu Narayen. Chairman and CEO of Software.
In 2010, he made $875 000 dollars a year.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/apple/7945715/Adobe-chief-Shantanu-Narayen-believes-he-doesnt-need-Apple-or-the-iPad.html
Today - 15 years later - he makes $43 million dollars a year :
https://aflcio.org/paywatch/ADBE
Like most big company CEOs, he makes sure only friends are named on the board.
For him, it's just a game. "How high can I go? I love milking these stupid peasants"

It won't stop until creatives stop paying.
There are alternative tools available, but the number of people I have seen not want to learn a new UI is high. Adobe knows this, so they continue to raise prices.
- I mean it's not just not wanting to learn a new UI. It's that a company uses Adobe as it's standard so if you don't have experience with it they won't hire you. And if you try to come in using a different tool they're just gonna end up forcing you to use Adobe.
  
  I wanted to ask why don't they let you pick your own tools and mid sentence I realized it must be because you won't be able to share work with colleagues due to compatibility issues with files.
  Which means it's bigger than the company you work for, but the same for anyone you might want to collaborate with.
  There must be some open file standard for creative stuff.
  Am I correct assuming that?
  
  Is it the case that most creatives cancel their subs when they get that job? Does the job have a site license (assuming Adobe even allows site licenses)?
  
  How many users are actually working in a company that uses Adobe? Aren't most users just casual, or even if they make money of art, working solo? (So, no need to conforme to an industry standard)
  I might be totally wrong tho
- And this is how normie's behaviors and consumption pattern affect everyone
- So what are the best options now? Been away from the photography hobby for a long time. Looking for something to process my Fujifilm raw files and making small repairs to my family history photos.
  
  darktable.org Darktable is like Adobe Lightroom but open source, and I honestly think it's better at this point.
  
  https://riseup.net/en/vpn
  https://www.qbittorrent.org/download
  https://1337x.to/

And theyre probably feeding your harddrive to an AI while pretending they dont know anything

Try affinity to replace photoshop it’s a one time cost and darktable for Lightroom it’s free.

We need Affinity Photo for Linux asap... Even on a VM both Affinity Photo and Affinity Photo 2 keep crashing for some reason....
- Have you tried running it with Wine? No idea if it'll work, just curious.
  
  Yes, but it doesn't even install properly. There's a custom fork of Wine specifically for Affinity Photo and it works somewhat but it's very slow and crashes a lot.

After using Adobe CS6 for 10 years as refusing to upgrade to CC I switched to Mac and got the Affinity programs. Cost $50 for each of the Photoshop, Illustrator and Publisher equivalent programs with no monthly costs. Universal licensing across all platforms!
Also the developers are in Ukraine

Serif has entered the chat.
Edit: FYI every time you try to cancel your subscription they offer a year at $39.99 per month for a year. Last year I tried to cancel and they gave me that offer. At that price it’s a pretty good deal so I took it; well it just so happens that today that year was up and when I tried to cancel the offer popped up again. So i guess I’ll stay with them for another year.
- Yay Serif. Although, aren't they Canva nowadays?
  
  Yes but so far no signs of enshitification as far as I can tell. I’m itching to switch to them but Adobe keeps roping me in. The thing that was holding me back the most was the lack of ai tools like erasing backgrounds and selecting subjects but it looks like they just added those features in February. So it looks like I’ll be evaluating who my graphic software provider for then year will be by the end of this month.
  
  Yep
- You're signing up your soul away.
  
  Well I make money with it so it’s not bad. Maybe next year they don’t give me the discount and I cut them off.

Probably preaching to the choir here, but breaking up with Adobe is great :)

I would argue that the open source alternatives to much of adobe software suite is better and free so fuck Adobe
- You would be wrong. There is nothing close to Photoshop and many others. Sadly that is the case.
  
  I switched over to Affinity since 2019. I never saw any need to go back to Adobe.
  
  Still worth it.
  I'd rm -rf my computer rather than using adobi*** products.
  
  Well at least we have alternative for maya= blender ,premier = davinci resolve,about Photoshop yeah there no same level powerful tools the closest I used is krita.
  
  Photopea has been great, probably not the best for power users, but it’s basically a clone of the Photoshop UI.

A surprise to no-one

"Trump and his damn tariffs made us do this!!" /s

Wouldn't have noticed. 😏

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