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Just been advised by Adobe my photography package is increasing from £8.78 to £10.10 per month! A 15% price increase or £15.84 over the year, more than an extra month's subscription!

Apparently due to currency fluctuations!

So, still reasonable value I guess but concerned it's the start of price hikes which I guess was to be expected! Time to look at alternatives?
 
The price increase is about the same as the drop in the exchange rate.
Its 3 cups of coffee a month!
 
Well the US price is $9.99 which is under £8 at current rates so I'm not sure the 15% increase reflects fairly?

I don't necessarily thinks the price is that horrific but I think the percentage increase & reasoning given is poor.
 
Ferj said:
Well the US price is $9.99 which is under £8 at current rates so I'm not sure the 15% increase reflects fairly?

I don't necessarily thinks the price is that horrific but I think the percentage increase & reasoning given is poor.
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$9.99 plus any applicable taxes depending on which state you reside in.

Don't forget that VAT is included in our price.
 
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j crossley said:
That's not true. There has been a price increase most years.

In 2015 the Adobe subscription was £83.39
In 2016 the Adobe subscription was £102.30
In 2017 the Adobe subscription is £121.20

That being said you can get some excellent deals on Amazon. I renewed my subscription a few weeks ago for £69.99 which is a hell of a lot cheaper then what I was originally paying in 2015.
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Odd, mines been the same price since 2014, I'm expecting the rise this year though :(
 
Ferj said:
I don't necessarily thinks the price is that horrific but I think the percentage increase & reasoning given is poor.
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I am well aware these are personal choices but add it to:
- your broadband
- your TV package (if you must have one)
- your mobile phone
- your office package
- your operating system
- etc.
- I forgot ... the car too

We don't like paying up front for things (understandable), so now they catch us with rental.

Ooops this is not the moaning thread :-)
 
It's almost as if the events that led to the fall of the pound and Adobe's willingness to tighten the screws on its locked-in customers are both bad for the consumer, isn't it?
 
Ferj said:
Apparently due to currency fluctuations!
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That was always my concern when it went "Cloud" I had the free trial for awhile, but still prefer my CS5.
I can't see me changing in the foreseeable TBH.
 
Ferj said:
Time to look at alternatives?
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Affinity Photo is a really nice image editor. I'm running a copy in parallel with CS6, and for my use there's nothing significant Photoshop does that Affinity doesn't, except for a couple of very specific features I only need at work (e.g. dealing properly with embedded fonts in an imported PDF). Lightroom may be more difficult to replace for those who use it - there are many other (some arguably superior) raw converters, but it has a very useful combination of raw conversion, editing and image management. The standalone version is still available, though somewhat neglected (and for how long?).
 
I'm dreading to see what my 'full monty' subscription goes up to come September... I suspect in the range of £45/mth.
 
j crossley said:
That's not true. There has been a price increase most years.

In 2015 the Adobe subscription was £83.39
In 2016 the Adobe subscription was £102.30
In 2017 the Adobe subscription is £121.20want abn

That being said you can get some excellent deals on Amazon. I renewed my subscription a few weeks ago for £69.99 which is a hell of a lot cheaper then what I was originally paying in 2015.
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I got that deal off Amazon and used the code a couple of days ago when my sub finished. After putting the code in though you have to put your bank card details in ready for payments in 12 months time- "they don`t want an interruption to your sub". They will give 2 weeks notice in 12 months in case you don't want to go on monthly sub. Still a bit annoying IMO.
 
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Mine has been the same price since I started but I expect it to rise this year, however I have already decided to drop it and go back to my CS6.
There have been things I have enjoyed having available in CC but having thought it over I can live without these and save the cash. :)
 
The thing I like most about CC is the way everything syncs. I can go on holiday, import my photos to my iPad pro, sort, rate and carry out 90% of my edits and when I get home they are all sat there on my Mac waiting for me. All I need to do is move the images from the "from my iPad" folder to its correct place on my hard drive. I have looked at Capture 1 as I got it free with my A7Rii, however the ability to PP on the go seems so much better with LRM/LRD. Guess £8.57 isn't too bad.
 
The discounted perpetual licence was used to get at work for the CS6 'Design Standard' package (PS/Illustrator/InDesign/Acrobat Pro, etc.) is now about the same price as they are offering us for the complete annual CC subscription (including a bunch of other stuff we don't need or want). There's no cheaper way to get this combination. Since we rarely needed to upgrade in the past (we don't really use anything that's not in CS3), that amounts to something like a 5-fold price hike. But look, shiny!
 
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Used to have CC,,but never used PS so bought 2016,feel happier now.its an option if you dont use PS
 
I'm a pretty happy CC customer and I suppose price is still reasonable. I do worry a bit about the implications of shifting to different software if I ever wanted to though. 22,000 edited images to migrate doesn't sound much fun.
 
Cobra said:
That was always my concern when it went "Cloud" I had the free trial for awhile, but still prefer my CS5.
I can't see me changing in the foreseeable TBH.
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Yup went the same way. Bought photoshop CS 5.5, Lightroom 6, as a mature student at the time I got both for under £200
 
LCPete said:
Just renewed mine I think it's worth it
I think of photoshop as part of my photography kit
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This^
I'm not even a big user of PP, but for the little I use it for it's worth every penny. I wonder if I can get a subscription for just the months I use it :thinking:

It'd be a real bargain then :p
 
ecoleman said:
Exactly my thoughts. People spend £1000's upgrading bodies and lenses and then complain about £10/month for the software.:thinking:
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People have odd priorities for their cash. People spending fortunes on cameras then not investing in lenses, people buying lenses but not investing time to practice etc.
 
It's just the price of one Chinese, Indian takeaway or in some pubs 2½ pints of beer a month. I think i can survive missing these once a month.
 
ecoleman said:
Exactly my thoughts. People spend £1000's upgrading bodies and lenses and then complain about £10/month for the software.:thinking:
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Phil V said:
This^
I'm not even a big user of PP, but for the little I use it for it's worth every penny. I wonder if I can get a subscription for just the months I use it :thinking:

It'd be a real bargain then :p
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Yes that's exactly what I was trying to say
I'm not even an expert on post processing but it would be daft in my case to save up for two years to go on a big photography trip and not spend the price of a takeaway on getting the best that I can out of the shots I get
 
I went for the CC photography package last year as it was on special offer at about £6.50 a month.
I've only really used lightroom, which I have on disc also (LR5), i have Ps on disc too, so i'll be cancelling.
The only question is, will I still be able to access all my edited images from the last year???
 
I spoke to Adobe about the increase and got 3 months free subscription
 
keef32 said:
I spoke to Adobe about the increase and got 3 months free subscription
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We did that at the beginning and got a good deal that appears to seem have applied right through until now as well. We got the email at the begin of the week too and for the all apps plan we'ver gone from just over £15/month to just over £17/month.
 
Beware, the student edition subscription has gone from £15 to £25 p/m. I went to cancel and found they wanted £137 cancellation fee :-(. There was an option for continuing exactly the same plan for £16! I selected this and got a refund on the payment they had just taken for the £25.

I know I was initially signing up for a years subscription, but I assumed (or perhaps just forgot) that after the year it would just revert to month by month. With the price increase, it also looks like Adobe were just trying it on. It's left a bit of a bad taste TBH, but the end result is that they have put the plan up by £1.
 
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Byker28i said:
Yup went the same way. Bought photoshop CS 5.5, Lightroom 6, as a mature student at the time I got both for under £200
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which is about 2 years use of the latest and greatest versions of LR an PS CC.

Carlo said:
I went for the CC photography package last year as it was on special offer at about £6.50 a month.
I've only really used lightroom, which I have on disc also (LR5), i have Ps on disc too, so i'll be cancelling.
The only question is, will I still be able to access all my edited images from the last year???
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if you upgraded your LR catalogue to the latest version as far as I know you cannot downgrade it (i.e. open it in a lower version).
 
Still on LR 5.7 and fingers crossed a stand alone LR 7 will be released. Not into photoshop so just want to upgrade for new cameras.
 
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