- Adobe has announced pricing changes to its Creative Cloud subscriptions that will take effect from the middle of next month.
- It cited “continued innovation” as a reason to overhaul the pricing for its creative software suite.
- The changes only affect users in the US, Canada, and Mexico for now.
A surprise to no-one
It won’t stop until creatives stop paying.
There are alternative tools available, but the number of people I have seen not want to learn a new UI is high. Adobe knows this, so they continue to raise prices.
I mean it’s not just not wanting to learn a new UI. It’s that a company uses Adobe as it’s standard so if you don’t have experience with it they won’t hire you. And if you try to come in using a different tool they’re just gonna end up forcing you to use Adobe.
How many users are actually working in a company that uses Adobe? Aren’t most users just casual, or even if they make money of art, working solo? (So, no need to conforme to an industry standard)
I might be totally wrong tho
Is it the case that most creatives cancel their subs when they get that job? Does the job have a site license (assuming Adobe even allows site licenses)?
Yes, creative jobs near universally provide licenses to creative cloud. Aside from companies not hiring people without that experience, the amount of saved assets and templates, along with the deep integration between apps makes the prospect of a full “migration” a ridiculously expensive prospect.
The value in these assets is not just in video files or pictures you can easily migrate to another app. It’s the complex scripts and templates that allow creatives to make custom branded content on the fly. Like a lower third that adjusts styling depending on the name you put in, and auto resizes to fit the text, etc.
And this is how normie’s behaviors and consumption pattern affect everyone
Do you see this guy ?
His name is Shantanu Narayen. Chairman and CEO of Software.
In 2010, he made $875 000 dollars a year.
Today - 15 years later - he makes $43 million dollars a year :
https://aflcio.org/paywatch/ADBE
Like most big company CEOs, he makes sure only friends are named on the board.
For him, it’s just a game. “How high can I go? I love milking these stupid peasants”
I would argue that the open source alternatives to much of adobe software suite is better and free so fuck Adobe
You would be wrong. There is nothing close to Photoshop and many others. Sadly that is the case.
Photopea has been great, probably not the best for power users, but it’s basically a clone of the Photoshop UI.
I switched over to Affinity since 2019. I never saw any need to go back to Adobe.
Affinity is awesome, at least until Canva starts demanding a subscription model.
Well at least we have alternative for maya= blender ,premier = davinci resolve,about Photoshop yeah there no same level powerful tools the closest I used is krita.
Still worth it.
I’d rm -rf my computer rather than using adobi*** products.
Exactly, you are not their target user.
Many people, including myself until recently, would also do a lot to rid themselves of adobe, but for us it just isn’t possible.
On the other hand, their subscription isn’t that high, compared to so many other subscriptions.
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Edit: FYI every time you try to cancel your subscription they offer a year at $39.99 per month for a year. Last year I tried to cancel and they gave me that offer. At that price it’s a pretty good deal so I took it; well it just so happens that today that year was up and when I tried to cancel the offer popped up again. So i guess I’ll stay with them for another year.
Yay Serif. Although, aren’t they Canva nowadays?
Yes but so far no signs of enshitification as far as I can tell. I’m itching to switch to them but Adobe keeps roping me in. The thing that was holding me back the most was the lack of ai tools like erasing backgrounds and selecting subjects but it looks like they just added those features in February. So it looks like I’ll be evaluating who my graphic software provider for then year will be by the end of this month.
Yep
You’re signing up your soul away.
Well I make money with it so it’s not bad. Maybe next year they don’t give me the discount and I cut them off.
“Trump and his damn tariffs made us do this!!” /s
Wouldn’t have noticed. 😏
