One of the falacies of cloud anything is that everyone has good internet access, esp. upload speeds. This is not the case in most rural areas of North America. I would go so far as to say that in Canada it is not even true in urban areas. Until recently my upload was a stellar 512kb/s.
While these apps run on your machine, they intrinsically rely on upload to a cloud service to share the output. In the myths section it isn't clear if you can store the files anywhere that you please or if you must store in a cloud folder. One advantage fo rthe occasional user is that you can pay for a month, get your work done, then unsubscribe until the next batch. Might be cheaper in the end for some of us. Either way, the change over to recurring license fees is in line with the fact that you only license the sw in the first place. I imagine the price for physical copies of CS6 on ebay.ca will be going up :-) Gerrit -----Original Message----- From: PDML [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of Bruce Walker Sent: Tuesday, May 7, 2013 10:35 AM To: Pentax Discuss Mailing List Subject: OT Photoshop CC spurs competitive market for Photoshop replacement If you hadn't heard, Adobe announced a new Photoshop version, "CC", and announced that henceforth you cannot purchase the former Creative Suite tools anymore: you must rent them. CC stands for Creative Cloud, and all the tools (except consumer, like Elements, and Lightroom I think) will be paid for by monthly or annual subscription. So if you're a photographer like me, you can have Photoshop alone for $19.95 a month. If you cancel your subscription -- poof! -- your copy of Photoshop no longer functions. The whole subscription pricing model makes sense and contains lots of benefits for fulltime professionals, but the rug has been pulled out from under amateurs, part-timers and hobbyists. We tend to buy an upgrade to Photoshop for $200 or so and then skip a version or two before doing that again, so Photoshop costs us about $100 a year or less. Now it will cost $240/year in perpetuity. This has just got to create a market for a decent "Photographer's Photoshop Clone" to appear. Something that supports 16-bits, RAW formats, full layers, and ideally Ps plugin support. Maybe the Gimpers will step up to the plate? At this point it appears the best choice would be to own CS6 and hold onto to it until it's no longer supported by your OS. Hopefully an alternative will appear by then. Here's Scott Kelby's FAQ on this change where he puts as positive a spin as he can on it. But read the comments for the mood of "the people". http://scottkelby.com/2013/my-take-on-adobes-announcements-yesterday-at-the- max-conference -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
