Adobe Creative Cloud for LR and Photoshop £8.99 a month

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Is anyone here using this... Is it worth it...
 
What worries me if when I don't want to pay anymore what happens.. Will all my edited photos be safe
 
Your edited photos won't be lost but you will not be able to go back to deal with layers etc as you won't have the means of doing so - as long as you save/convert them to jpeg/tiff etc they will be safe in that completed form.
 
Can you clarify this for me please... So if I have some images in lightroom and how would i do what you suggested.... As I am trailing it at the moment and all i am doing is letting lightroom look after the images. If I end the sub would I still be able to view the images in LR or would LR no long work
 
Thanks that answers everything... Cheers
 
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Can you clarify this for me please... So if I have some images in lightroom and how would i do what you suggested.... As I am trailing it at the moment and all i am doing is letting lightroom look after the images. If I end the sub would I still be able to view the images in LR or would LR no long work
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As mentioned above, Adobe have announced that if you allow your CC subscription to expire you will still be able to access the LR catalog, but you won't be able to use the LR editor.
However, if you buy Lightroom as a stand-alone program (NOT CC) then you are licensed "perpetually" and it will never expire.
The drawback is that when Adobe release LR 6 you will need to make a one-off payment (usually around £50) to update from v5.
Updates are usually about once a year, but although Adobe have been expected to release LR 6 soon, they have just released LR 5.6, which is free to existing LR 5 users.
 
This is interesting and I was considering subscribing the other day. I have however already bought the stand alone Lightroom 5, but wanted Photoshop as well. Does anyone know whether if I pay for the £8.99 subscription I can download Photoshop pnly and retain my existing Lightroom? I just don't want to be tied in to having to perpetually licence Lightroom when I can just buy it instead. Thanks.
 
Nguss said:
This is interesting and I was considering subscribing the other day. I have however already bought the stand alone Lightroom 5, but wanted Photoshop as well. Does anyone know whether if I pay for the £8.99 subscription I can download Photoshop pnly and retain my existing Lightroom? I just don't want to be tied in to having to perpetually licence Lightroom when I can just buy it instead. Thanks.
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You can keep your old Lightroom ... IIRC you download the complete package and install them one by one, so if you don't want to use the CC Lightroom (not sure why you wouldn't though) just don't click on the 'Install' next to it :)
 
Excellent thanks! I just thought that I would keep the lightroom that I have bought so that way if I decide to give up photoshop, I still have access to full lightroom which I what I use for just about everything but would like to use Photoshop for focus blending / exposure blending for landscapes. Thanks again for your help.
 
gramps said:
You can keep your old Lightroom ... IIRC you download the complete package and install them one by one, so if you don't want to use the CC Lightroom (not sure why you wouldn't though) just don't click on the 'Install' next to it :)
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I'd advise caution with this.
I read on another forum about someone who signed up for the CC package and for some reason chose not to continue.
After he cancelled he found that his existing, stand alone, copy of Lightroom had been deactivated and had a real hassle to get it reinstated.
Maybe worth deactivating and uninstalling your present copy of LR before subscribing to CC.
 
Brian G said:
I'd advise caution with this.
I read on another forum about someone who signed up for the CC package and for some reason chose not to continue.
After he cancelled he found that his existing, stand alone, copy of Lightroom had been deactivated and had a real hassle to get it reinstated.
Maybe worth deactivating and uninstalling your present copy of LR before subscribing to CC.
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I have the CC subscription and my old Lightroom 3.6 still works fine.
 
gramps said:
I have the CC subscription and my old Lightroom 3.6 still works fine.
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Yes, but the point is, what happens to LR if you cancel your CC subscription?
 
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Brian G said:
Yes, but the point is, what happens to LR if you cancel your CC subscription?
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I wondered this too I already have LR5 on my MacBook but have gone for CC
I hope that if I ever decide to cancel CC my original LR5 will still work
 
Why would an unrelated Lightroom version get wiped when CC ended?
 
gramps said:
Why would an unrelated Lightroom version get wiped when CC ended?
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good point but I'm on the same version(5.6) as I've only just signed up for CC, I did click to download both LR and photoshop without realising it
I will have to email adobe to check
 
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500px currently has an offer on for 500px premium + adobe photography cc bundle for $165 a year. Thats about £98 a year or £8.17 a month.

With the 2.5% PayPal exchange rate fee, its about £100. Adobe photography bundle is normally £104 a year.

It might be a bit more or less depending on what exchange rate Paypal uses. But even so I can't expect it will be more than a few £ difference in pricing, so if anything you will get 500px premium for a few quid more than the cost of the Adobe bundle on its own.

https://500px.com/upgrade
 
gramps said:
Why would an unrelated Lightroom version get wiped when CC ended?
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Just reporting what happened to someone else.

Probably yet another way of Adobe screwing you over.
 
Yep, because adobe just exist to screw everybody over.

If you have a licence for Lightroom, why would cancelling your CC subscription also cancel the other licence.
I think the problem was probably the interface between the keyboard and chair.
 
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I guess the way around it is to uninstall it and use a different account for your Adobe CC subscription than you did for lightroom registration.
 
I just got a mailshot from Amazon advertising the Creative Cloud Photography Plan for an up front payment of £89.99 for one year, which equates to £7.50 per month.
 
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