Petapixel:
If you subscribe to Adobe Creative Cloud for Photoshop and Lightroom via the $10 per month Photography Plan, there may be some pain coming to your wallet. Many customers no longer see the $10/month plan on Adobe’s site — the cheapest plan is listed is $20/month.
Instead of $10/month for 20GB of storage being the most affordable plan, only the $20/month with 1TB cloud storage is being offered. If you only use the Photography Plan for the software and not the storage, a phasing out of the $10-per-month/20GB plan would effectively be a 100% price hike with no practical benefit for you.
This will definitely get me to unsubscribe from Adobe’s Creative Cloud. Interestingly enough, the Canadian Adobe Creative Cloud page still lists the $9.99/month US price point.
It makes sense in the context that the newer CC products are 98% useless with the existing $9.99 plan’s paltry 20GB of storage…
…but Adobe could also choose to not be a bunch of jerkbags and offer a useful plan below 1TB. Or, you know, just not make the newer CC products such a hot mess of storage-abusive garbage.
I simply could not imagine spending $240 on Photoshop every single year. software as a service is a scam for normal consumers.
The $9.99 is still available on the site, it’s just not front & center right now as they test this new pricing.
MacRumors has an article about this, with a link to a page where you can still signup for $10/month. I’d post the link myself, but that tends to get caught in the moderation queue/spam filter.
Just the endless push to move every byte of YOUR data to a cloud that you do not own and can not control, because software has reached a point were there really isn’t much new under the sun. I’m not suggesting there is no software development, but the advances are not the kind most folks are willing to pay more money for, when the version they have now does everything they need. No software sales means they ensnare you in ongoing subscriptions… forever. This is exactly like Big Phaarma Take one of these pills a day for THE REST OF YOUR LIFE, (or you will DIE). On the software side, its pay us this money every month for the rest of your life, or say good by to all the data you’ve created.
I hope Adobe doesn’t mistake any small numbers of people who leave right away with those who are planning their getaway.
Agree, and for pros who use it hours every day to make their livings from, it is an incredible bargain.
Frankly, though, Photoshop has been drastic overkill for ‘normal consumers’ for 20 years. At this point, I recommend to people like that either Pixelmator or Affinity Photo (on Mac). One time purchase, very reasonable, is probably still overkill for what normal folks do.
For pros who need PS and PSD compatibility with clients, $240 had better be a tiny drop in the bucket of expenses.
More pain from those greedy squeezin’ frakkers.
When those “what do you think of [Adobe CC App] pop-up turn up, I have been low-rating them. The software is pretty central for many in the Creative Community, and still the 800-lb Gorilla in the Publishing space –but is no longer a good deal, but a necessary evil to be tolerated.
I now comment, only affordable for working professional creatives. Students, hobbyists, pro-sumers, struggling small organizations and NPOs, beginning freelancers need not apply. Industry standardization and near monopoly control established over decades locks many to Adobe’s CC apps, and increasingly costly CC subscriptions. Not that our incomes are rising.
When i retire, (hahahahahaha!!!) I am very likely to ditch my CC subscription and pursue capable, if not as powerful (and bloated) third party apps for my creative needs.
Of course, the CC sub is a blip in the bucket if your hauling 200k in student loan debt. What $600+ a year?
What? Me? Ranting? …. maybe.
Absolutely. And they do so while developing the CC apps in a way that wastes that expensive Adobe cloud storage (and your local storage) with stunning efficiency and invisibility! It’s a real win-win for Adobe.
The hilarious thing about CC is it’s the working pros — the people who generally wouldn’t blink twice about the price — that they keep throwing to the wolves.
Surprise! Your Lightroom CC turned into this other, barely finished Lightroom CC overnight!
P.S. It’s now mandatory that every single image in your Lightroom library be uploaded to the Adobe Cloud for your safety!
And because we’re very thoughtful and understand our customers and their workflows very well, this new Lightroom will silently delete your original files from your local disk for you!
Oh, those keyboard shortcuts you’ve used for literal decades in Photoshop? We changed them because they confused new users. You thought we’d import them from your old version? Ha ha ha, no. Wait, you thought we’d at least ask you which shortcuts to use on first launch? How silly of you.
You cannot both price consumers out of the product AND de-functionality professionals out of the product. That leaves you with no customer. It makes no business sense.
But that’s just par for the course since the dudes running Macromedia into the ground took over post-merger.
And why not license some of Adobe’s own stock content while you’re there? Awesome.
HAH. Too true. And don’t get me STARTED on how sluggish the CC apps got on my 2010 Mac Pro. Bridge CC 2019 is almost scandalously unstable now, crashed in the background apparently because it feels neglected or got BORED. And WHY in the nine hells do we need a mini-app that takes 30 sec to launch just to open a new file. JUST OPEN A NEW GORRAM FILE.
The Hate, it BURNS.
Adobe CC tries very hard to help customers forget that they likely as not already had a less expensive cloud storage scheme of their own.