Adobe has done it again...

xyer0

takezo_3001 said:

paulawp (marahzen) said:

So it appears that this only applies to the CC versions? I bought CS6 at the time - so far as I know, the last version that was not rentware - and have steered clear of anything since.

Rentware is a scourge... 

You will own nothing, and you will be happy. 

Singular3D

I still have my CS6 suite installed on my old Win7 workstation. My new PC runs under Win11 and I will probably use Affinity there. I also will find a way to get the brushes to Affinity at least as PNGs with a transparency channel.

mwokee

There isn't a one size fits all answer. I think for many, Gimp or Photoshop Elements makes perfect sense. I subscribe to the full Adobe CC suite which costs me about $31/month. It's tax deductible and with the introduction of AI and Firefly, I'm saving a lot of money by not having to purchase Daz products.

LeatherGryphon

I have had Photoshop and Ilustrator boxed licensed versions for decades(currently CS5.5 Photoshop, and CS5.1 Illustrator).  I have found no need to upgrade further.  For me, renting even at $10 a month is wasted money.  Other people are not so lucky, as to have such easily satisfied needs.  However,  if I were new to this, and just starting my collection of tools, and wanted to be professional some day, I'd make sure I started out with at least a $10 subscription to Photoshop, if only to learn the interface and POO (Philosophy Of Operation) for use in future professional situations.

Y' never know a product until you grok its POO.

scorpio

takezo_3001 said:

paulawp (marahzen) said:

So it appears that this only applies to the CC versions? I bought CS6 at the time - so far as I know, the last version that was not rentware - and have steered clear of anything since.

Rentware is a scourge... 

Merely one opinion. for me personally I like the fact that I can afford it this way, but then I rent my home as well and am very aware of some opinions on those that rent being in the lower echelons of society. So 'rentware' enables those who might not otherwise be able to consider using such things a chance to do so - might mess with some opinions on people not rising above their station I guess but - tough.

LeatherGryphon

I rent my apartment.  I gave up on owning homes.  I'm retired, essentially no savings, living only on Social Security payments.  No way I can put up a downpayment or even manage payments on a house that doesn't need $50,000 of improvements to adhere to building codes of even the last century.  Over the last 50 years a bank and I have owned a modern 3-bedroom ranch style house, and a historical log cabin in an upper crust neighborhood in Florida, and a three story townhouse in the center of Washington DC, and a fabulous condo in the DC suburb of Reston..  Never paid any of them off.  But all those house payments, taxes, condo fees, water, garbage, gas, & electricity charges, oh my!  None of which I have to pay now.  Just $400/month rent.  Yeah, yeah I have to put up with rural isolation, and with the neighbors in the other half of the house having control of the thermostat, and the grass doesn't get mowed as often as it should, and the neighbor's ranting even got the police SWAT team hiding behind cars with bullhorns once, extracting me for my own "safety".  But owning a house again at my age is out of the question (but I did buy a lottery ticket)

Note:  The neighbor is a nice guy, really.  He just gets carried away sometimes.  And once it was the police who carried him away.  But I think he learned a lesson he's been much more moderate of late.  Which makes him not dumb.