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May 2019

Question is, how are they gonna know if someone is using a previous version of their software? I dont think anyone is gonna say "hey Adobe- I'm using Photoshop CS2!"

What is forcing a lot of artists hands is the fact that Adobe is doubling the price of their Photography package(that included PS & Lightroom) from $10 to $20. I picked up that package coz I could afford it; truthfully/technically I can still afford $20, but it's the principle- if they raise it up to $20 and they see people are paying, they'd probably raise it again in the future...greedy f**kers.

My PS subscription is up for renewal at the end of September/October...if they are talking about a price increase, I'll just end it and find an alternative. I have CSP, so I'm good...

Ever since I learned they'd switched from one time payments to own forever to a subscription model I gave up bothering with the company and their products (to an extent). There were some things I was still using but knowing that this is the course of action hey wish to take I say screw it at this point.

One thing that's come out of it all though is more info being shared about alternatives since Adobe has made themselves out to be the "villain". Also it feels like such a bad business move since I've heard so many complaints related to their products especially after the rollout of CC and compared to CS5 or CS6 it was worse

As for alternatives I found this post to be the most useful in listing options both free/one time payments

I'm no tech head but I was told that images have imbedded data that traces software sources. I could easily be misinformed though.

I feel sad for everyone. I get the program for free at work. But, if I could I'd pay for everyone.

They've actually been already contacting people who use older programs via e-mails. A few industry artists I follow and even a few of my artist friends have been getting these warning e-mails.

Some people don't want to upgrade because they removed features that they use in the new version, so they need the old version.

Some people have not updated because the newer version of the program doesn't run in their windows OS, so they very literally can't update.

Another fun thing to note is a good amount of these people need these programs for school or work and would rather be using other programs like CSP, but work or school will not allow them.

Sounds like it has something to do with the old subscriptions. Glad my version of Photoshop is older than the Creative Cloud, then. :stuck_out_tongue:

Seriously though, that's pretty ridiculous. Like other people have mentioned, some people legitimately can't upgrade due to hardware constraints and whatnot.

to me this is just another big win for clip studio it's a better program anyhow.

They can find out via software updates that Adobe does on your computer. So when you get that notification for a windows or adobe update, it can tell what program you have. I used CS6 for years with windows updates turned off until one day adobe updated and was able to tell I had an older version. Then I recieved a pop up every ten minutes anytime the program was open. The pop up slowly escalated from "hey, get the new photoshop!" to "we will corrupt all your PSD files if you do not uninstall this program". So I got rid of it lol.

Photoshop was never very good for comics anyway.

I just feel bad for all the people who have gotten used to specific versions of it and who are now harrassed to "upgrade" to a version that doesn't even have what they need. Ridiculous.

daaaaaang!, i use adobe draw

gotta see how good is the newer version and if it`s bad/too expensive, to find another program

this sounds like something that could be coded out of it fairly easily... or what if you save the file, open it in clip studio, and then save it as a new file? wiped clean, i imagine.

anyway, just one piece of evidence on a pile that shows that adobe is a terrible example of late capitalist greed