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Adobe Creative Cloud subscriptions are getting more expensive

htxt.co.za Adobe Creative Cloud subscriptions are getting more expensive - Hypertext

Next month, Adobe is upping the price of its Creative Cloud subscriptions for users in the US, Canada, and Mexico.

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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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.
  
  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)?
  
  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?
  
  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/

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.

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

A surprise to no-one

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

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

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

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.

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

I just used a free online thing called PDF2Go to split a giant PDF into 4 smaller files. It let me directly download the resulting 4 files without signing up for anything, and they work perfectly on my box (linux mint). Tbh I don't think the UI is super intuitive but I just googled "How to split a file on pdf2go" and found clear instructions. It has a lot of other tools I have not explored.
Not affiliated with the site in any way, sharing because Adobe is so freaking expensive. https://www.pdf2go.com/

Wouldn't have noticed. 😏

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