Adobe Photoshop CC Has Apparently Been Cracked One Day After Launch
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ahem okay, sorry, I just get a little resentful at seeing the resources for serious academic endeavor being measured in leisure units. Seriously though, even if everyone else doesn't party their way through school, $240/yr is a fair little chunk of change to a lot of students, and is certainly well within the price range where piracy makes a lot of financial sense.
tldr: master 10k$/yr + 240$/yr ~= 10k$/yr.
also: Don't go to starbucks everyday and learn to brew your coffee . Gonna save MUCH more. (2coffee/day*2$) - 200$( coffe machine & 1 year of coffee) - 240AdobeCreativeCloud >0
Delusional excuse. You have options to do without or use an alternative.
Nobody is talking about pirating software for business use, and certainly not forcing coworkers to do it.
None of that solves the real problem of lack of competition in the space, and the resultant fact that industry uses Adobe and colleges teach what industry uses. Which makes a nice little positive feedback loop that is hard to overcome.
Why do graphic designers need to only be employees?
I get that a lot of people still won't be able to afford that, but it seems they really listened to feedback on their pricing. Considering upgrades and updates are built into that price, I'd say its a really good deal.
http://www.adobe.com/products/creativecloud/buying-guide.htm...
I cut the Adobe cord a long time ago and don't even miss it anymore.
I am sure, some designers would love to work with OS, but their social environment makes it too hard for them.
>Same with MS Office.
Yes, terrible people, we all have worked with them, but we don't want to emulate them.
>Same with expensive 3D software.
Good technique is good technique, skills are skills, a competent person can adapt their workflow to a new method or vehicle. A competent artist can express themselves in more than one medium.
It comes down to this, if you are constrained to a single tool made by a single vendor, you are strictly a technician (in the narrowest sense).
YMMV of course, if they're willing to put in that effort. I know GML and Dark Basic but that's not worth much on a resume either.
Worth the money for me.
You're clearly not a commercial designer, then. Pixelmator (while it has some interesting features) and GIMP don't even cut the mustard on the most basic level. Non-destructive editing, for instance. I wish it wasn't true, but it is.
Grandparent was specifically talking about hobby use, not commercial/professional designing:
> Photoshop is something I use a lot on a hobby basis
Also you can have the same effect multiple times. For example, you could have 3 or more separate non-destructive drop shadows on one layer.
That's not correct. There are options. The alternatives aren't always as capable, or may require more work on your part, or may just not be as convenient, but there are options that would allow you to do most or all of the things that can be done without pirating the Adobe stuff.
Recognition of Adobe's tactic, and the fact that the graphic arts industries have practically made Adobe products a de facto standard certainly increases the incentive for many to simply pirate the stuff. Adobe is counting on that.
Yeah, though I am not quite sure what MS can do about piracy in China.
Besides they are pricing for max revenue rather than max sales. Better to sell to one professional who will pay $1000 than 10 student/hobbyists who will pay $60.
Does software like Adobe's typically show increasing returns to scale though?
Exactly, they only have to support a small group of professional users.
>who will pay $1000 than 10 student/hobbyists who will pay $60
I see what you did there...
Which is a different matter altogether, but the main thing is that it sounds less impressive, and that you should watch out for any potential sense of entitlement to awesomer software, because you probably didn't actually pay any money or work on said software... :P
Now, some of us are a little less picky about UI and deployability in an actual or hypothetical commercial design-house workflow and the usual complaints, and are possibly a little more picky about spending money (and/or pirating software). We'll continue to happily use the GIMP for our miscellaneous photo-editing needs as such needs arise, and volunteer labor will continue to improve it.
If this was really their intended strategy they would just make a free version for students or amateurs. As it is now, they are spending a LOT of effort trying to make it harder to crack their products. And it is harder, but it's still possible.
Look at Autodesk Maya, they have a free version for students so there is absolutely no reason to pirate it.
Happens everyday.....move on.
Creative Cloud is all about forced upgrades, not cutting piracy.
InDesign .indd compatibility has consistently broken with each new CS version; with this new system, you're either going to have to subscribe or not be able to interchange files in their original, (easily) editable format with clients, other designers, etc.
If the 2nd/3rd world started to standardize on non-Adobe tools, then all the 1st world agencies that use that cheap labour could potentially start looking into those other tools, right?
It's changing the revenue stream and in a lot of cases, it's more compelling for users to switch over.
People are more than happy to pay if the price/convenience is right.