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Arrrrgh. Also Off Topic – Photos. Grrrr.
Damn, Damn, Damn,
I’m venting here because many of you know this story. (My long, sad, frustrating story about my battles with my now terminated Adobe Photo Subscription.)
As many of you know, I finally cut ALL my ties to Adobe subscriptions a couple of months back.
The double billing thing was annoying me every month when I saw the two charges on my CC bill – and all the calls to tech support and billing at Adobe to try to resolve it were all for naught. And I was only doing a couple of photo based projects a year that my other tools couldn’t handle. And I remembered people telling me that if I just had a temp need, I could buy a month of access (albeit, at a stiffer price) – and work on the old stuff as needed.
Apparently NOPE.
I came back from ComiCon with tons of good shots. But I’m not yet anywhere close to fluid enough with Affinity Photo, PhotoMechanic, or Pixelmator – to fluently work this large a set of stills.
So I went to the Adobe Site to sign up for a MONTH of Lightroom access just to get this ONE personal project done.
Well, It appears you can’t actually DO that anymore. (If you ever could irrespective of what people used to post a lot in counter argument.) It appears there is NO month-to-month Photo Plan signup possible from Adobe any more. You apparently MUST signup for a year at a time. Every year. Even if you want to use the program for ONE weekend gig.
The web site only shows annual billed monthly – or annual billed for the whole year. Period.
This essentially makes the cost of Lightroom north of $120 – even if I only wish to use it on ONE personal project – one time only – for even one day.
Affinity Photo cost me $49 four years ago – apparently for LIFE.
Please, Affinity – have a team working on a library organizer/file retouching alternative.
Pretty, pretty please.
Creator of XinTwo – https://www.xintwo.com
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[Bill Davis] “This essentially makes the cost of Lightroom north of $120 – even if I only wish to use it on ONE personal project – one time only – for even one day.
Affinity Photo cost me $49 four years ago – apparently for LIFE.
Please, Affinity – have a team working on a library organizer/file retouching alternative.
Pretty, pretty please.
“On the plus side it’s some great ammunition for future anti-subscription posts
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Glad I bought Lightroom 6 as a stand alone copy, when I did. Hopefully it will last for some more years.
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Based on what I read on the website today, you can get a monthly plan (month-by-month), single app subscription for Photoshop, but not Lightroom or the Photo Plan. Weird.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters – oliverpeters.com
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It’s one of the things I hate about subscription. They can change the terms at any time.
https://mathieughekiere.wordpress.com
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That’s certainly extremely annoying. It’s not encouraging to see some of the things that Adobe are doing around stuff like this.
I notice however that you are not using Apple Photos, for which I believe you and many others held out high hopes when it launched:
“It’s interesting to speculate that the many, many still-imaging driven folks MIGHT have more in store from Apple.
Certainly, the number of people who need or want to work with still images is at least as big as those who need or want to work with video. And if Apple has the engineering skills – why not someday either a Photos Pro – or at least a really robust 3rd party ecosystem that adds tons of modern capabilities to the underlying structure.
Fun to dream.”
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/335/84464#84519
Simon Ubsdell
tokyo productions
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Although you can still purchase Lightroom outright without a subscription plan. Although there may be some feature differences between the current Lightroom CC and Lightroom 6.
https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/help/download-install-single-app-Lightroom-6.html
– Oliver
Oliver Peters – oliverpeters.com
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[Simon Ubsdell] “I notice however that you are not using Apple Photos”
It’s worth noting that a number of the third-party developers, like Pixelmator have added extensions for Photos, which really improves its capabilities.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters – oliverpeters.com
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Regarding software for the asset management of photos, I don’t believe anything has yet to surpass Apple’s Aperture. Unfortunately, it’s not an option anymore. If you need something for just asset management, one great option is Pixave . We’ve been testing it in our creative department.
I believe that asset management for professional photographers is a very underserved market. Especially in an environment where files are accessed by multiple users. Even though everyone in our studio and post-production house has a full Adobe CC subscription, we don’t use Lightroom. Currently its asset management function doesn’t meet our needs. Photoshop is a must have and Adobe’s ACR is a fantastic RAW file processor, but we and many other studios use Phase One’s Capture One Pro.
Robert Olding
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[Robert Olding] “If you need something for just asset management, one great option is Pixave . “
Looks very cool. Another option is also Adobe Bridge CC, which I believe is still free. You just can to create an Adobe CC account.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters – oliverpeters.com
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[Oliver Peters] “Although you can still purchase Lightroom outright without a subscription plan. Although there may be some feature differences between the current Lightroom CC and Lightroom 6.”
I was assuming that since my Lightroom was updating automitically through my subscription, all my files have been pushed to the current version format and therefore aren’t backwards compatible any longer. Does Lightroom 6 read Lightroom current files?
Also another small vexation is that even though I formally disinstalled all Adobe software, the software remains somewhere on my computer.
I know this because I accidentally double clicked on an old file and was surprised when it launched. For a moment I thought the “phone home for authorization” thing hadn’t expired. But then the warning screens appeared reminding me that the Develop Module would remain locked away unless I re-subscribed.
Oh well.
Creator of XinTwo – https://www.xintwo.com
The shortest path to FCP X mastery.
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