Adobe is going to only sell subscription based Photoshop

[Tin Can]

I like that Adobe has finally made it all work on both PC and Mac. I use both.

Where are the Linux boosters?

[Light Guru]

The monthly price for Photoshop from the cloud is $20 that's $5 a week. Skip a few trips to starbucks each week and get over it.

[Kirk Gittings]

Me and have for years-PC desktops and Mac laptops.

[bob carnie]

I have to agree with Randy , they really have a grasp of an region of my body few have completely reached.

I doubt it. The complete suite is decades in the making and constantly mutating. I have tried everything else. Not even close.

[Lachlan 717]

Do you feel that anything's missing from the current Edition?

If it's like many digital upgrades, it seems the more incarnations, the greater the diminished returns.

Perhaps just stick with the current (last non-subscription) Edition?

[Kirk Gittings]

The monthly price for Photoshop from the cloud is $20 that's $5 a week. Skip a few trips to starbucks each week and get over it.

That's the price now. They are keeping it low to beg off a lot of the predictable blow back. As they are a virtual monopoly, its not likely to stay low.

[Light Guru]

That's the price now. They are keeping it low to beg off a lot of the predictable blow back. As they are a virtual monopoly, its not likely to stay low.

Photoshop is one of the most pirated software out there. The move to subscription only is going to prevent that piracy. The more people who actually pay for it the better. More money to put into development of the product and also the ability to keep the cost of the subscription low.

[Greg Miller]

I have always upgraded when each new version came out. Not that really needed each new version other than being an educator I needed to stay up with the changes.

I will have to seriously consider living with Photoshop CS6 for as far out in time as I can conceive. That will probably last until I eventually upgrade to a computer that CS6 won't run on because of the underlying structure of the O/S or I get a new DSLR that isn't supported by Adobe Camera RAW. Either way that's probably several years down the road. Adobe won't get any more of my money until that happens.

[Leigh]

Photoshop is one of the most pirated software out there. The move to subscription only is going to prevent that piracy. The more people who actually pay for it the better. More money to put into development of the product and also the ability to keep the cost of the subscription low.

Wow. Have you bought into the propaganda.

It's widely pirated because it's overpriced. Pirating is legitimate competition to monopolies.
Pirating is illegal and unethical. So are monopolies.

Name one monopoly that's reduced its prices due to increased customer revenue.

- Leigh

[Greg Miller]

Do you feel that anything's missing from the current Edition?

If it's like many digital upgrades, it seems the more incarnations, the greater the diminished returns.

Perhaps just stick with the current (last non-subscription) Edition?

I agree. Adobe's timing is bad (should have done this many versions ago). Photoshop is so good now it is hard to imagine new features that I cannot live without. Where they will get many people is when they buy a new DSLR and need a versions of ACR that supports the RAW files for that camera. Adobe has always used that to force people to upgrade.

So there will be a good market opportunity for alternative quality RAW converters (some already exist).