Why you’ll buy Adobe CC

[Shane Ross]

Or keep the versions we currently have….

Shane
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[John Kaley]

Right. As long as CS 6.5 keeps opening up CC7, CC8, CC9….etc.

[Shane Ross]

I have a very old Photoshop version…CS I think…like CS1…on an old laptop I let the kids use. It still opens PSD docs made on current versions of PS. PPro might be different…but so far, PS is backwards compatible.

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[Oliver Peters]

Plenty of users run old versions of Photoshop or After Effects and are quite happy doing so. I see lots of CS5 installations (and older) all over town.

I get that CC is potentially a really good deal for Adobe “power users”, but I’m not sure that’s true if you use Photoshop to occasionally open a client’s files. Most of those can be prepped beforehand to not require compatibility with the latest, greatest version, when it gets to the editor. In fact, I know plenty of editors who only own Photoshop Elements.

The interesting effect will be on the potential “new market” of Premiere Pro users. If they come from a heavy AE background, then yes they will likely hop on board the CC wagon. OTOH, if you are an FCP7-refugee and NOT an AE-power user, will CC have appeal?

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[John Kaley]

Man, Adobe really has been sticking it to me after all these years of upgrading. Whodda thought that all I needed all along was CS1. Thanks for the tip!

[Shane Ross]

Well, later versions have newer and better features. But simply opening PSD files…one doesn’t need the latest and greatest.

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[Aindreas Gallagher]

I think I figured what I’d do for now is just get Premiere.

I had a bit of an epiphany that I could care less about having online access to colour wheels, 20GB of storage (hello, 2009 called: it wants its headline back) and also that I probably don’t care about what adobe do to photoshop over the next three revs (didn’t really care that much about the last three, CS4 was generally horrible though) or roughly the next two revs of AE. Not that we’re getting revs anymore.

Illustrator, indesign, epiphany, Kular, that stupid pen, Flash, dreamweaver – they can all go take a jump in a well. I’ve got production premium CS6 paid on my dock – in terms of AE and PS – that’ll do me for donkeys. They are both extremely, to put it mildly, mature applications.
Half of me privately thinks adobe are tapped out updating this suite as a product to sell. photoshop is at ver14 for god’s sake.
I think they just want to sit back and lick the jar on rental fees at this point.

As freelance I nearly always originate mograph stuff, or i’m just using client software. Half of London is still on CS5.5 as it is.

So the creative cloud can get stuffed, bar premiere – thats the only one I care about as live software. costs me around 8 quid a month this year, and about 14 quid a month next year. That I reckon, is what adobe get off me.

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[Andy Neil]

Maybe not PSDs, but I’ve had issues opening .ai files created on newer versions of Illustrator from what I own.

Andy

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[Steve Connor]

[Aindreas Gallagher] “I think I figured what I’d do for now is just get Premiere.

I had a bit of an epiphany that I could care less about having online access to colour wheels, 20GB of storage (hello, 2009 called: it wants its headline back) and also that I probably don’t care about what adobe do to photoshop over the next three revs (didn’t really care that much about the last three, CS4 was generally horrible though) or roughly the next two revs of AE. Not that we’re getting revs anymore.

Illustrator, indesign, epiphany, Kular, that stupid pen, Flash, dreamweaver – they can all go take a jump in a well. I’ve got production premium CS6 paid on my dock – in terms of AE and PS – that’ll do me for donkeys. They are both extremely, to put it mildly, mature applications.
Half of me privately thinks adobe are tapped out updating this suite as a product to sell. photoshop is at ver14 for god’s sake.
I think they just want to sit back and lick the jar on rental fees at this point.

As freelance I nearly always originate mograph stuff, or i’m just using client software. Half of London is still on CS5.5 as it is.

So the creative cloud can get stuffed, bar premiere – thats the only one I care about as live software. costs me around 8 quid a month this year, and about 14 quid a month next year. That I reckon, is what adobe get off me.
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Are you listening Adobe people?, that post should worry you a lot.

Steve Connor

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[Christian Schumacher]

There’s also an option of buying After Effects only…It’s a terrific video design package right there! For what? 240 one year? Not bad. You get the cloud add-ons. You can have it loaded on two machines at the same time and it’s even OS agnostic! AE also works as a conduit. You open PSDs, Ais and even Premiere projects! You get to import/export in a myriad of choices, FCP 7 and AVID support included. And I strongly believe that this will get even much better from now on, they only can improve their collaboration. Yeah, I know Ae crashes on CMYK 😉 but there’s this: https://www.cmyk2rgb.com/