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Whats the verdict on Adobe CC?
There were lots of comments about this when it first came out. I'd like to hear thoughts about it from people who have actually used it.
Upgrading to new computer soon and haven't decided if I should change, or reinstall Photoshop CS4 and Lightroom 2.
Here in the Montana Sticks, internet speed is pretty slow, (when it works) so I would hate to have to wait while working on things.
Is CC actually stored on your machine?
If so can you run the program without connection the net?
Anything else I should know about?
I tried to open some RAW files from a newer Cannon camera and found that CS4 didn't have the right magic ingredients for that. Am I correct in the assumption that if I get a newer digital camera I will have to upgrade, or are there ways around this? I currently have a Nikon D300 and a couple of D70s's
thanks
Bryan
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Bryan, I use CC most days. It's how I earn the majority of my living. You don't need to be online to use it. Everything is stored on your system, just as before. I don't know how far your older programs can be updated, but make sure you use the newest camera raw and Lightroom updates for them. With newer cameras, there might be workarounds for using with the older programs, such as using a program to produce dng files, and then using Lightroom or camera raw to open those. The camera/lens specific features won't be there, but that shouldn't be a big deal. For me, using CC is worth it, but it all depends upon what type of things you do.
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Does CC call home periodically to check if our subscription is current?
And if it does, and we cannot connect are we screwed?
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Peter J. De Smidt
Bryan, I use CC most days. It's how I earn the majority of my living. You don't need to be online to use it. Everything is stored on your system, just as before. I don't know how far your older programs can be updated, but make sure you use the newest camera raw and Lightroom updates for them. With newer cameras, there might be workarounds for using with the older programs, such as using a program to produce dng files, and then using Lightroom or camera raw to open those. The camera/lens specific features won't be there, but that shouldn't be a big deal. For me, using CC is worth it, but it all depends upon what type of things you do.
Agree 100%. I have the bargain version with Lightroom and Photoshop. The wife has the full-blown version as she uses InDesign and Illustrator in addition to PS. IMO, both subscriptions are bargains.
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Here's the listing of all cameras that the Camera Plug-in (versions 1.0 through 8.7) supports.
Adobe Camera RAW Plugin Versions and Supported Cameras
For example, for the D-300, the minimum version of ACR is 4.3, and the Lightroom minimum version is 1.3.1.
--P
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To the best of my knowledge it calls home periodically and if a month or so goes by without being able to connect you're screwed - not sure how often one can't connect for a whole month though. Hasn't been a real problem at all. (I did have a period when my internet service crapped out for a few days so I stuck a USB Wifi adapter in the machine and tethered to my iPhone. Worked OK for critical stuff like e-mail and Adobe never complained.
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I am always connected the web, twice down in 10 years. Use the $10 CC version daily and love it.
I would not want to go back to earlier editions of PS or LR. I have used PS since 1996 and paid for updates for many years at great expense. CC is a bargain compared to the past.
I see PS is celebrating 25 years. http://blogs.adobe.com/photoshopdotc...photoshop.html
Each improvement has made PS better, much better, never worse.
At work I had to use the phone to get Adobe activated, really not a big deal. I had no Internet there until I hacked in...
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photonsoup
There were lots of comments about this when it first came out. I'd like to hear thoughts about it from people who have actually used it.
Can't help you there. I'm not interested in renting software. Just not going there. But my copy of Photoshop CS6 still works just fine.
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I'm not letting any business attach itself to my credit card. Its just not smart. Had one photo friend find out Adobe billed him $600 and he's trying to get it back. I'm taking a Lightroom class and the instructor said if Adobe makes Lightroom 6 subscription only he's out. He says that On1 and another British software company are poised to take people who don't want to use the cloud or subscription software. He showed us the Bata of the one and it looks very much like Photoshop with minor differences. I can hear the law suits a comin'!
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Bruce Watson
Can't help you there. I'm not interested in renting software. Just not going there. But my copy of Photoshop CS6 still works just fine.
Me too. But I was able to get it at edu discount, so it was vastly cheaper. I don't upgrade unless I really have to.
I'm keeping an eye on Affinity Photo as a possible replacement--the beta looks promising, already has most of what I need. Will be interesting to see what the final product is like.
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A great competitor for PS is around the corner: Affinity Photo. The beta is already fantastic. Doesn't eat or waste RAM. No need for PS anymore. Oh, wait, the price is less than 50 US$ - and it is YOUR product, not connected to a cloud or credit card.
Another 48/16 bit image editor is PhotoLine. 64 bit app, Windows and OS X. Small, fast, stable, 59 Euro for the download. Runs with PS plug-ins. Doesn't waste or eat RAM.
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Use Gimp, why pay at all?
:)
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Affinity is Mac only, a non-starter for many of us.
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Gimp is 24/8bit only. If you want 48/16bit, you have Affinity and Photoline for small money.
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I like I can use CC on both Mac and Win simultaneously, 2 installs allowed.
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The Affinity software is what I was looking at. It seems like a Photoshop program. I'm more interested in a Lightroom replacement if that goes to the cloud and that's where on1 may come in.
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I had many doubts and voiced them. LR and PS CC works like a charm. Somebody comes out with something better I'll dump it but until then it fills the bill in spades,
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I've started using Lightroom 5 for most adjustments out of the camera. Dropped the subscriptions for the full Adobe package because I wasn't using most of the products any more. I get by with Lightroom, Photoshop CS6 and dreamweaver CS4. Just downloaded the Affinity Photo beta and found it to be very intuitive. A decent replacement for Lightroom, but not the full functions of photoshop. So looks like Adobe gets my 9.99 a month for the next year. there are just some things that require layers.
I use Coldfusion at work, and have gotten spoiled by the ease of developing with it. I liked the macromedia products before adobe bought them. I used to write my own games in flash and did all sorts of neat things with photographs, objects, and text. But the subscription model does not fit my budget any longer.
GIMP never really worked for me. and the Mac drawing tools are just ok.
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esearing
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Just downloaded the Affinity Photo beta and found it to be very intuitive. A decent replacement for Lightroom, but not the full functions of photoshop. So looks like Adobe gets my 9.99 a month for the next year. there are just some things that require layers.
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GIMP never really worked for me. and the Mac drawing tools are just ok.
That is my assessment also, Affinity seems OK as a replacement for Lightroom but it lacks many of the essential editing features I use in Photoshop.
I have owned every other upgrade of Photoshop since the early 90s, up to CS5. I considered outright purchase of CS6, but the current education pricing of CC at $9.99 a month seems a better deal to me than CS6 at $299. I don't really understand concerns about the credit card issue, the charge to me was for one year, non-recurring unless an extension of the contract is approved.
Sandy
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I used to use think highly of Gimp and still think well of it for the price and open source goodness. But photoshop CC runs circles around gimp for performance. And it handles 48 bit images. Haven't tried Affinity yet.
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jp
I used to use think highly of Gimp and still think well of it for the price and open source goodness. But photoshop CC runs circles around gimp for performance. And it handles 48 bit images. Haven't tried Affinity yet.
I was joking about Gimp. It's a complete waste of time. FOR ME! ymmv
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toyotadesigner
Gimp is 24/8bit only. If you want 48/16bit, you have Affinity and Photoline for small money.
Also Gimp doesn't do CMYK, essential for prepress. They've made some headway, but they've been promising these features _forever_ and haven't been able to do it. N
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toyotadesigner
A great competitor for PS is around the corner: Affinity Photo. The beta is already fantastic. Doesn't eat or waste RAM. No need for PS anymore. Oh, wait, the price is less than 50 US$ - and it is YOUR product, not connected to a cloud or credit card.
Another 48/16 bit image editor is PhotoLine. 64 bit app, Windows and OS X. Small, fast, stable, 59 Euro for the download. Runs with PS plug-ins. Doesn't waste or eat RAM.
The reason I use PhotoShop is that I can select in a number of ways, paint the selection with a brush, etc., and apply a mask to an adjustment layer.
Do you know if these programs allow one to do this?
I went and looked at their respective sites but didn't see this info...
Thanks,
Lenny
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Can't help you there. I'm not interested in renting software. Just not going there. But my copy of Photoshop CS6 still works just fine.
Same for me I really hope for an alternate to it!!!
Cheers Armin
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I doubt anybody will make a better photo manipulator than PS, it's way deep and has 25 years head start.
Maybe next century.
Of course many of us don't really need it and lesser programs work fine for most.
Like Lenny says PS masking is in a class by itself.
Nobody has to buy or rent anything...
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The reason I use PhotoShop is that I can select in a number of ways, paint the selection with a brush, etc., and apply a mask to an adjustment layer.
Do you know if these programs allow one to do this?
Yes, it does, and a lot more, with unlimited layers. Watch the demo videos:
https://www.youtube.com/results?sear...o&spfreload=10
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Moopheus
Also Gimp doesn't do CMYK, essential for prepress. They've made some headway, but they've been promising these features _forever_ and haven't been able to do it. N
Personally I’ve never ever had the need to go into CMYK. I’m not an offset printer.
And the upcoming Gimp, which can be used already today, has 16-bit, 32-bit, 64-bit in integer or float format with gamma or linear. I can happily go from scan to decently "developed" final image in Gimp. Its curves tool is useful, and its 'unsharp mask' is mathematically correct. And their resampling algorithms are performed in linear color space, which wasn’t the case in Photoshop for a long time and lead to bad results.
That said, whenever I get the chance I prefer to sit at a Windows computer with Photoshop because the ACR workflow with 16-bit TIFFs from Vuescan is just so much more streamlined. In Gimp it always has to process the full res image and bake the changes in.
I’d rather invest money in hardware photo equipment than software, if I had any money. I’ll leave the software finesse to the ephemeral world of digital photography. Myself, I barely need curves, resample, sharpen and masks.
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Randy Moe
I doubt anybody will make a better photo manipulator than PS, it's way deep and has 25 years head start.
25 years is a long time for an application to remain relevant, but there's no guarantee that will go forever. After all corporate management can doom a product as quickly as technological change. See also: Quark XPress.
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Moopheus
25 years is a long time for an application to remain relevant, but there's no guarantee that will go forever. After all corporate management can doom a product as quickly as technological change. See also: Quark XPress.
I miss Pagemaker too. Quark was, best I could tell, for the newspaper business, which has been in a very long slide down. I'm sure it's sales dried right up at the start of the newspaper decline. Coreldraw is still around which I like but have little use for at the moment. Many *nix utilities and editor remain after at least 25 years with cult status, but they are free and impossible to kill.
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photonsoup
Is CC actually stored on your machine?
Yes
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photonsoup
If so can you run the program without connection the net?
Yes, but not forever.
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photonsoup
Anything else I should know about?
You will need a modern computer to run Photoshop CC, but it sounds like you've got that
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photonsoup
I tried to open some RAW files from a newer Cannon camera and found that CS4 didn't have the right magic ingredients for that. Am I correct in the assumption that if I get a newer digital camera I will have to upgrade, or are there ways around this?
Yes, that is how Adobe drives sales of new software. They only include support for new camera raw files, new lens correction profiles, and support for new software features (such as content-aware fill or camera shake correction) in the latest versions of the software. So if you upgrade your camera, or lenses, or just want the latest and greatest features, you have to upgrade.
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Jac@stafford.net
Does CC call home periodically to check if our subscription is current?
Yes
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Jac@stafford.net
And if it does, and we cannot connect are we screwed?
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You will need to be online when you install and license your software. If you have an annual membership, you’ll be asked to connect to the web to validate your software licenses every 30 days. However, you’ll be able to use products for 99 days even if you’re offline.
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Randy Moe
I would not want to go back to earlier editions of PS or LR
Me either. I can't believe the first poster is still on Lightroom 2 and CS4. Onward and upward!
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Yes, that is how Adobe drives sales of new software. They only include support for new camera raw files, new lens correction profiles, and support for new software features (such as content-aware fill or camera shake correction) in the latest versions of the software. So if you upgrade your camera, or lenses, or just want the latest and greatest features, you have to upgrade.
This is partly true. Adobe does provide updates to the ACR plugin for newer cameras in later versions of Photoshop for older versions. I have CS 6 and I receive ACR updates, but no new features for Photoshop itself. Please see this link.
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But at some point current ACR itself will not still be compatible with with CS6 I believe so eventually they will cut you off. Then you will have issues if you buy a new camera.
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If I'm understanding correctly, No one has yet said that they actually tried CC and did not like it or canceled their subscription.
So the people that use it, like it. Or at the very least say that nothing else yet meets their needs.
None of the people in favor of other programs have used CC? Or did I miss something?
If this is correct it seems kind of a no brainer to me.
Thank you all for your input.
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photonsoup
If I'm understanding correctly, No one has yet said that they actually tried CC and did not like it or canceled their subscription.
So the people that use it, like it. Or at the very least say that nothing else yet meets their needs.
None of the people in favor of other programs have used CC? Or did I miss something?
If this is correct it seems kind of a no brainer to me.
Thank you all for your input.
I think you are correct. We that use CC like it and the rest don't. Simple really.
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I used to stay current with Photoshop (mostly because I teach Photoshop). But I really don't want to be renting software. So I decided to stick with CS6 until there is a compelling reason to go to CC. My primary digital cameras are a D810 and D800E and I don't expect to replace them anytime soon. They are so good I can't foresee any new features that would cause me to want to upgrade enough to have to pay $10/month for the rest of my photography life. Windows 8 reaches end of life in 2023 and I expect CS6 to run on Windows 10. So no worries about RAW conversion or not bring able to have current computer that CS6 will run on. And I haven't seen any CC features that I would really take advantage of.
I processed over 8,000 photos last year for my current book that will be released later this year. Never once did I find myself wishing I had a CC feature. So where Adobe once got $200 or $300 every 1.5 years, they have not and will not get any anytime soon. The product is so mature the new features just aren't that compelling - just like Microsoft could have stopped updating Word ten years ago.
If I were in a position of starting out with Photoshop, I think I would find a friend who switched to CC and buy their PS6 install CD and license from them.
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photonsoup
If I'm understanding correctly, No one has yet said that they actually tried CC and did not like it or canceled their subscription.
So the people that use it, like it. Or at the very least say that nothing else yet meets their needs.
My opinion:
I've used Light room + Photoshop since LR 2.0 and Photoshop + Bridge before that. Been using Photoshop since v7, probably about 10 or 15 years ago.
In the interim I've tried Paintshop Pro, The Gimp (which is great considering it's free), Apple Aperture + iPhoto, the Nikon programs, and probably some others that I'm forgetting. Nothing come close to Adobe products. Yes they aren't perfect. Yes they will suck down your computer's ram and processing power like a frat boy sucking down beers. Yes adobe bungled the Creative Suite -> Creative Cloud launch.
But, it's still the best software for photography hands down. Creative Cloud version of Photoshop + Lightroom is $10 a month. This used to cost about $1000 every couple years when new CS versions came out. Now, you're paying $120/yr instead of maybe double to quadruple that (depending on how often you upgrade). It's not a bad deal these days, really.
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fishbulb
Creative Cloud version of Photoshop + Lightroom is $10 a month. This used to cost about $1000 every couple years when new CS versions came out. Now, you're paying $120/yr instead of maybe double to quadruple that (depending on how often you upgrade). It's not a bad deal these days, really.
Let's look at correct numbers. I paid $221.60 for CS6 upgrade in 2012. I know I paid extra to get the CD but I don't know how much. But that would be $12/mo. if I upgraded every 18 months. Or $6/month if upgraded every other version, which is what many people did (and is where I am at since I am still using and felling no pain nor envy). The biggest difference is that with the purchase you would not lose access to your image files. With CC, if you stop paying, you no longer have software to access your .psd files. You want to make a print? Too bad. You want to make a jpg for a web site? Too bad. How confident is anyone that when they retire they can continue to pay the monthly fee? Doctor bills, prescription medicine, hospital bills,... $10/month assuming it stays that low, might be a hard nut to pay.
Would you rather pay $120 a month to own a car or $100 a month to lease? At least with a car you have the option.
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Gimp can open PSD files and probably others too. Why assume that sometime in the future only PS will be able to utilize PSD files when it is not even true now? If I were to make a guess I would think there would be more in the future. Look, right now IMHO CC LR and PS is really a no brainer if one expects to be working files with any camera vaguely new at any given time and I personally will for the foreseeable future. I'd love to see real competition to PS and LR-not just some lame alternative that only an avowed Adobe hater could love.
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Kirk Gittings
Gimp can open PSD files and probably others too. Why assume that sometime in the future only PS will be able to utilize PSD files when it is not even true now? If I were to make a guess I would think there would be more in the future. Look, right now IMHO CC LR and PS is really a no brainer if one expects to be working files with any camera vaguely new at any given time and I personally will for the foreseeable future. I'd love to see real competition to PS and LR-not just some lame alternative that only an avowed Adobe hater could love.
OK. I will change my statement to say that if you want to work with your .psd file, you;ll have to use some lame alternative. Still not a situation that I want to be in.
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Obviously this is a ridiculous discussion.
Users and abusers.
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Comparing CC to the older methods [buy every two years, etc], does not make sense to me.
You get the entire suit [yeah, with things you don't want/need.... until you do], at lower entry cost.
Never thought I'd edit a PDF, till I did, and found the ability useful. The lower entrance bar will also
bring more people into the Adobe market. Younger people.
Myself, I use curves, the occasional layer, and some toning, i.e. no 'power' user.
But I think it's a smart move on their part, and I like the product.
-Tim
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Greg Miller
Let's look at correct numbers. I paid $221.60 for CS6 upgrade in 2012. I know I paid extra to get the CD but I don't know how much. But that would be $12/mo.
Ah but that's the upgrade price. You conveniently ignore the fact that at some point everyone has to buy the full version before they can just buy upgrades. The full price of just Photoshop CS 6 (not the full suite of other applications) was $699 and for PS Extended it was $999. Then you've got to buy Lightroom 5 which was $149 (or $79 for the upgrade from LR 4, which was $300 new). So if you had never bought PS + LR before that's $848. Even if you never upgrade after that, amortizing it out that's 84 months, or seven years, to pay you back at $10 a month.
The $10 a month price for both PS + LR is a screaming deal by comparison. Plus, there is no large lump payment at the beginning of using the software, and upgrades are free. This is the direction all software is going in the future because it supplies he company with a more predictable, steady revenue stream instead of a big lump every few years. Microsoft and Apple are doing the same the as Adobe.
But, no one is making anyone use it. GIMP works fine for what it is, and you can organize your images with Light zone, Raw therapee, or whatever free program you want. For paid programs Capture One is supposed to be pretty good but I haven't used it.
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fishbulb
Ah but that's the upgrade price. You conveniently ignore the fact that at some point everyone has to buy the full version before they can just buy upgrades. The full price of just Photoshop CS 6 (not the full suite of other applications) was $699 and for PS Extended it was $999. Then you've got to buy Lightroom 5 which was $149 (or $79 for the upgrade from LR 4, which was $300 new). So if you had never bought PS + LR before that's $848. Even if you never upgrade after that, amortizing it out that's 84 months, or seven years, to pay you back at $10 a month.
The $10 a month price for both PS + LR is a screaming deal by comparison. Plus, there is no large lump payment at the beginning of using the software, and upgrades are free. This is the direction all software is going in the future because it supplies he company with a more predictable, steady revenue stream instead of a big lump every few years. Microsoft and Apple are doing the same the as Adobe.
But, no one is making anyone use it. GIMP works fine for what it is, and you can organize your images with Light zone, Raw therapee, or whatever free program you want. For paid programs Capture One is supposed to be pretty good but I haven't used it.
You would be the exception. When Adobe switched to the CC model, millions of people already owned their copy of Photoshop. Then you have all the people who purchased their new copy of Photoshop via an educational license, which was cheap and allowed upgrades to the "regular" version at the normal upgrade price. Even if you paid the full $700 purchase price, amortized over a 30 year use period, it comes down to $2/month. And you owned it. You didn't have to keep paying for it to use it. If you upgraded every other version you were essentially paying $8 month (if you elected to pay anything)
Everyone knows this is the way software vendors are going. They love being able to make you pay every month or you take away access to the software.
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Are people still arguing about this? If you don't like the subscription, don't subscribe. Stick with whatever aging version of Photoshop you have and grumble about it until the day you die. Meanwhile, I'll happily pay my subscription fee for what I consider to be excellent software at a reasonable rate that is constantly kept up to date. I like having the entire suite at my disposal and being able to afford having it there legitimately. I bough the suite in college in 2002 and it was great, until it started to go out of date and couldn't afford to keep it updated. I ended up keeping it updated, but not aboveboard. Now it's all legal again, everything works as it should, new features are getting better by the week, etc. It's a good scene. I'd rather flow with the way things are in this case than try to resist and spend my energy embittering myself with shit I can't do anything about when it would be better spent outside with a camera.
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Who's grumbling? If you targeting me, then you misinterpreted my words. I stated I did not like renting software (an opinion) and why, and provided an alternative looks at the costs. If have a calm headed discussion about the situation is grumbling, then I guess you can count me as guilty.
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No targeting! Nothing aimed at you, Greg! But there *is* grumbling. Real, curmudgeonly grumbling.
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Well, it is a site full of curmudgeons talking about 50+ year old equipment and processes. Not much grumbling going on around here ;)
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At some future point I will probably have to move to CC, but for the current time CS6 is still working just fine and nothing is forcing me to make the change.
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Greg Miller
Well, it is a site full of curmudgeons talking about 50+ year old equipment and processes. Not much grumbling going on around here ;)
Ha! And I say "curmudgeonly" knowing full well that others would use it to describe me in plenty of other capacities. It's not all bad. We all grumble about something.
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Greg Miller
Let's look at correct numbers. I paid $221.60 for CS6 upgrade in 2012. I know I paid extra to get the CD but I don't know how much. But that would be $12/mo. if I upgraded every 18 months. Or $6/month if upgraded every other version, which is what many people did (and is where I am at since I am still using and felling no pain nor envy). The biggest difference is that with the purchase you would not lose access to your image files. With CC, if you stop paying, you no longer have software to access your .psd files. You want to make a print? Too bad. You want to make a jpg for a web site? Too bad. How confident is anyone that when they retire they can continue to pay the monthly fee? Doctor bills, prescription medicine, hospital bills,... $10/month assuming it stays that low, might be a hard nut to pay.
Would you rather pay $120 a month to own a car or $100 a month to lease? At least with a car you have the option.
Worst case, you'd have to get the 30 day free fully functional demo version installed so you could save your PSDs to another format. As Kirk has mentioned there are other options for opening files as well.
Comparing software to a car is apples and oranges. You never own software unless you make it yourself or have it custom made by a programmer on staff, and even then it's largely made with building blocks you don't own such as runtime libraries and open source code. When you "buy software", you are buying a license to use it, which is full of restrictions just like leased software. It's sort of like having the CS6 cd/dvd is like Vivian Maier's negatives; you've got the materials, someone else might have the rights, but a lot more clear cut with software because it was planned that way.
I know the car question is rhetorical, but I'd take the ownership option so I could buy just liability insurance rather than full coverage as the leasing company would require.