Adobe Creative Cloud, anybody using it?
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Has anybody had any experience with Adobe Creative Cloud, where instead of purchasing an upgrade to CS6 you make monthly payments, and get free upgrades to new versions when they come out?
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The biggest issue with Creative Cloud for me is that when they increase the price in the future and you think it is too expensive and want to quit you have no "fallback" version of the CS suite.
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@pixero said:
The biggest issue with Creative Cloud for me is that when they increase the price in the future and you think it is too expensive and want to quit you have no "fallback" version of the CS suite.
My thoughts exactly. I "chatted" with an Adobe Sales Rep for maybe a half hour this morning, and the one thing I could not nail her down about was whether the price would increase after the initial year. I was considering going the year commitment instead of the monthly deal because it would only be 29.99 per month, vs 49.99 (since I already have the CS3 version).
And I did find CS6 Extended, full version, online for 599, so that's what I'm thinking about getting instead of the cloud version.
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I think one thing we can be sure of is that the price will go up.
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No doubt.
Actually one of the main reasons I was thinking about upgrading is because CS3 will not install on my laptop. And I'm not alone with this problem, I've found a number of websites that report this problem, all with supposed fixes, none of which work for me. One thing they do agree on is that installing the latest version will work.
Personally I believe this is done purposely to force people to upgrade. I really do believe that. And of course Adobe will provide absolutely no help whatsoever for previous versions, only the latest (and most expensive) version.
Adobe is one of those companies that people hate, but they don't care a fig about this because they know they are the flagship of graphics programs. Things would be different if they had a worthy competitor, and I keep praying for that day to come.
It would be one thing if CS6 had features that I could really use, but CS3 works fine for me so I'm probably just going to stick with it for now and continue to attempt to get it installed on my laptop. -
I would definitely recommend purchasing at least Photoshop. I've always stayed far away from costly subscriptions if I can. I don't have extended, and I don't know if it's of much use. I also have Lightroom, I think there's some feature overlap there, but LR in itself is really awesome.
One huge difference between earlier versions of Photoshop and cs5 and 6 is 64bit support. I went from cs2 to cs5, and the difference in file handling between the two versions was night and day. Of course this was comparing 150Mb many layered files, so it depends on the kind of photo editing you use. I didn't find a whole lot of practical difference in Illustrator versions, but image tracing works really great. I don't remember it from cs2, I didn't use it much then. Acrobat and indesign conversion features are vastly improved.
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Andy
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