Yes, I wanted it to go out to everyone. The important part is the link
to Adobe. They have a Q&A that answers all the questions and clears up
misconceptions.
I started with Adobe Photoshop when it was only written for the
Mac,version 2.0, an never paid more than $199 for an upgrade. To me,
being unemployed is an outrage.
I am currently using CS3 as it is the only version I am able to use on
my Mac G5, I bought CS6 last year, for $199, and will use it when I
upgrade to a new Mac Pro Desktop. Apple keeps promising a new Mac Pro.
I am running CS6 on my wife's Macbook Pro and there are NO problems.
You are out of luck as Adobe cut off an upgrade from CS3 to CS6. You
will have to go to the cloud or buy the full version of CS6 as a new
customer. This was why I bought CS6 upgrade as I knew Adobe was about
to cut it off. For once I got lucky :)
Those jerks that download pirated versions of Photoshop is one of the
main reasons Adobe moved to rental. They are making all of us pay for
steeling software.
Jim
Begin forwarded message:
From: Mixon Bill <bmixon...@austin.rr.com>
Date: May 13, 2013 2:02:22 PM CDT
To: James Jasek <caver...@hot.rr.com>
Subject: Re: [Texascavers] Photoshop
James (only) -- Not sure whether you meant to send that link about
the Adobe Creating Suite rental scheme to the whole Texas Cavers
list or not. If there's been an inquiry about it there, I didn't see
it. (Sometimes I think I don't get quite all the posts.)
Seems like not such a bad deal, really. I bought CS3 for over $2100
back in 2007 (would have been more if I'd bought a more complete
suite of programs, including the web stuff). True, I've used it for
5.5 years, but I'm still stuck with CS3, not the latest versions.
And it would have taken me almost 4 years to pay that amount at the
rate of $50 a month, so I'm not terribly far ahead of where I'd have
been had I been paying subscription all this time. (No doubt the
list price of the more recent versions has gone up, too, and I doubt
there's much of an upgrade discount from CS3 for CS7.)
And since I've been stuck with CS3, I haven't upgraded my Mac system
to OS 10.6 (Lion) because I heard that some of the CS3 programs have
at least cosmetic problems with the newer operating system. That
sort of thing wouldn't arise with a subscription that allows one to
upgrade at no extra cost.
But then I know people who have the whole latest version for
nothing. Not hard to find on the web programs that will unlock
pirated versions from disk. I imagine people will figure out how to
patch subscription versions so that they'll continue to run after
you stop paying, too.
If there has been a significant thread about this on Texas Cavers,
feel free to post this if you want to. -- Bill Mixon
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