Thank you for your reply, but after spending the $$$$ bucks to get the suite just 3 years ago, a purchase I wasn't able to afford, to begin with, I still regret that decision. I am not interested in upgrading to the current system that drafts my account. My resources are too limited on a fixed retirement income. I am now working with CS6 using a dumbed down monitor and some parts of the suite I never was able to use. Adobe is one of the few softwares that can't seem to adjust to new monitors, it has also flunked out on very basic opening of Adobe documents (so now I just use the reader), and my use of this software is now very limited. I am not interested in buying ANYTHING from Adobe anymore. Adobe, in designing products that are designed to FAIL, the company has proven to me to have no quality consciousness nor loyalty to its former customers. The current trend towards subscription services may work for some, but not for those of us who can't live with an indefinite financial commitment. I also don't like the trend of different software companies sabotaging each others' products, or planting themselves as default programs when the question was never asked. Software should never behave like it owns the machine, nor that it is operating in a war zone vying for customer attention. Any software should be a specially invited guest. Unless a software company operates ethically, they will no longer have my business. ... View more

For the not helpful comments just posted that reinforces my impression that Adobe people don't care: I had to REBUILD a machine onto a new motherboard to be able to afford one after my other machine's motherboard went bad, and had to pay an additional $100 for an upgrade to Win 10 that I wasn't anticipating because of the processor. I bought a new monitor that had to be color correct, which was also more expensive than it should be. As an amateur artist, married to an early retired software engineer (your future, too, dudes-so get a back-up career), I am not sympathetic to those who remain in the software industry who want to extort money from me every month. I would get more pleasure from a magazine subscription. I will be very lucky if I have health insurance and medications next year. Count your blessings. No uncaring people, I can't afford any subscription services, and subscriptions are like leeches for people who don't have much income. I use more than Photoshop so just paying for Photoshop wouldn't work for me. I would rather be able to eat, thank you. I already eat a lot of peanut butter. Adobe is not the only one who is shifting to the subscription model, and they have all done so to keep their remaining engineers employed. Meanwhile, these industries are in the habit of letting go engineers as they get into their fifties. Be warned. They will hire a bunch of young people then they will let them all go, including the oldest engineers they have. I have seen it happen to 4 of my engineer friends, and my brother. You are probably next. With this change in hardware, I have lost quite a bit of function that I had just a couple months ago. I also can't afford a new flatbed scanner that no longer works because Canon didn't update the driver for the perfectly functional with Win 7 Canon 8800F. The more the industries act this way, the less my generation will put up with this. My "upgrade" in hardware was a definite downgrade in function in many areas. I could do more with my Win 7 machine and older processor. The situation is supposed to be improving, but it is getting worse by the day. I have found a work-around for using my older CS6 by putting the monitor at 350%, or going to using my laptop. This will work for me. Considering that computer graphics is not my normal gig, once my family pictures are done, I will just go back to drawing by hand and printing my own pictures thank you. There are lots of people who can't afford a subscription Adobe service, especially for casual use, as I do. I could hardly afford the CS6 when I bought it just a few years ago. Consider your potential customer base shrinking, Adobe. Most of the world can't afford subscriptions. Once I get a piece of software, I don't want anyone messing with it every month in upgrades. Customers want reliable, consistent, function, and Adobe has just proved itself unreliable to me. Having the feeling that I have been robbed by circumstance, I don't trust you any more. I will go for a secondary graphics software supplier. How lucky I am that I don't need the machine to accomplish something. I am not sure what the next generation will do when they find out that software is not as helpful as it seems. On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 11:01 AM, Terri Stevens <forums_noreply@adobe.com> ... View more

I am really, really, upset. I am not one who makes any money. I am a homemaker fixing up my family's old pictures. I bought the CS6 just a couple years ago, full price, using several years of my savings, and now with this new win10 machine the user interface for Photoshop is tiny on my screen, too small to read. All my other programs, even the most ancient ones in emulation mode, are scaled up and readable on my hi-def monitor. Adobe acrobat is readable. All the other CS6 applications are so tiny they are useless. It was not rocket science to have a basic update for all that incorporates the new machine. I feel this company has extorted me out of my money. I am really pissed off. I don't have the money for subscription services. ... View more