Biting the Bullet: Adobe Creative Cloud Membership

Horoscope Fish

Horoscope Fish

Senior Member
Well I did it. I'm not *happy* about it but, I did it. Pulled out my credit card and grudgingly paid for an Adobe Creative Cloud membership to the tune of $20 a month starting today.

Since I bought my version of CS6/Photoshop with an academic license through the college I work at, I am *not* eligible for the less expensive Photography Program. My academic Creative Cloud membership gives me access to pretty much all the Adobe applications for $20 a month, most of which I won't use of course. Hell, I don't even know what most of them *do*, but I do like Illustrator, which is installing as I type this, so I guess there's that.

In fact I think this whole thing sucks pretty damn hard.

*Sigh*

Rant over.
 
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Scott Murray

Scott Murray

Senior Member
Unfortunately I think everything is going to cloud as everyone has been saying. I think its a sad time and I really hate reoccuring payments each month.
 
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Dave_W

The Dude
BackdoorHippie said:
Interesting that the Academic license does not allow you to purchase at $10/month. Well, I just saved $120/year for a while.
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It depends on how long ago you purchased Photoshop. I, too, bought my original PS as the student/teacher edition, same with LR, but that was a couple PS's ago (CS4 PS) and so Adobe must not look back very far when making their determination.

@Paul - having all the Adobe programs at the time of your fingers has got to be awesome. Back when I was buying my first PS, I almost went for the entire Adobe suite but told myself to wait. I'm especially interested in their new Edge Reflow program that's still in development. Looks like a new and improved version of Dreamweaver....sorta. I'm not too surprised, Dreamweaver was great in its time but is now dated.
 
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Geoffc

Senior Member
I'm on the cloud and like it as I use things like Premiere and Dreamweaver as well. I can also install it on my wife's PC and my laptop although one must be logged out. Obviously my wife and I don't use it at be same time as that would breach the licence conditions.

When I'm away for the weekend I just log my laptop on and my desktop off. I find this is flexible and works for me.

Since being on cloud I've upgraded LR and Photoshop at no extra charge.
 
Horoscope Fish

Horoscope Fish

Senior Member
Dave_W said:
Btw - does this full package come with a Behance account, too?
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Yes it does. I registered for a Behance account but have not yet done anything with it.

Also, in my first post I said the package did not give access to Adobe Acrobat Pro when in fact it *does*; maybe everything just hadn't caught up with my computer or something because I'm sure at some point the option to install Acrobat was greyed out. Whatever the case may be, it did allow me to install Acrobat Pro, along with In Design, Illustrator, Bridge and of course Photoshop.

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piperbarb

Senior Member
Marcel said:
​If only Corel would have a Mac platform product to compete...
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I use Corel Aftershot Pro. It is cross-platform Mac/Linux/Win, which is a plus for me since I run Mac & Linux at home. Also, it's pretty affordable at about $50 or so. You only need one license key to install it on multiple computers, whether running the same OS or different OSes. I do like it. I think it is supposed to be Corel's answer to Aperture and Lightroom, with the advantage of cross-platform compatibility.
 
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