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March 16, 2013
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P: Ability to buy Photoshop as a perpetual license, instead of Creative Cloud

  • March 16, 2013
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I understand from a very reliable source that CS6 and Lightroom 4 will be the last photoshop software that will be available to actually purchase and own. In other words...You will not be able to purchase the software either on a disc or download that is yours to use indefinitely once you purchase the product. It will only be available via the cloud and everyone will be required to pay monthly license fee to use the product. This will allow all upgrades as long as you pay the fee...but if you cease to pay the fee, the software will be deactivated. If this is the case...and I believe it is...THIS SUCKS!

I have been Adobe user since I purchase the CS2 Creative Suite and used lightroom since it's inception. I have not purchase every upgrade, but have done so when I felt the changes warranted an upgrade. If Adobe insists on this business model, I will probably use one of the other photo editing product available on the market. There are several that will do most everything Adobe's software provides. I do not want to change...but Adobe's changes will force me to do so. I will purchase and use software...I WILL NOT "RENT" software which is what Adobe is proposing.

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    Acool273882475dfd
    Participant
    December 1, 2022

    Look at this; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pkAwkJV5NY

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    Acool273882475dfd
    Participant
    December 1, 2022

    You could use a few open source options. 

    strawbo13
    Adobe Employee
    strawbo13
    Adobe Employee
    October 6, 2021

    We have no plans to offer Photoshop without a subscription.

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    FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor
    Inspiring
    November 2, 2018
    I've never heard of "PS digital" and have no idea what it is.

    Now to explain what life is like for us retired folks.

    We live on something called a "pension," which for most of us isn't enough to actually make ends meet.  So, even ten dollars a month is too much for some of us.

    And there's no guarantee that the price will remain at ten dollars a month.  Adobe can change it any time, to $20, $50, whatever they want.  And since you have given them access to your bank account, they will take it from you.

    Once in a great while, most of us come across some kind of a windfall.  It is at those times that we CAN afford to buy a perpetual license, and continue using it until the next windfall comes along - sometimes years away.

    Life for a retired person is like being a fiddler on a roof.

    Does that explain it why I can afford a perpetual license but can't afford to rent my software?
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    FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor
    Inspiring
    November 1, 2018
    Ken.barber
    well, i do not know about you, but, it has worked for me.
    just checked my adobe account  and i am only paying for PS digital.

    Peter Leigh
    so you are saying that you can not afford to buy the digital version,but, you can afford to buy the perpetual...   does not make sense to me.
    well it depends on weather you need PS to bring in the money or not.
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    FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor
    Inspiring
    November 1, 2018
    No, West Side Railways, canceling a subscription is NOT easy to do.  My last employer before I retired rented Photoshop for a project.  When they had completed the project, they tried to cancel the subscription.

    The debits to the corporate credit card continued, even after multiple calls to customer support.

    Finally, our corporate attorney had to get involved.

    That is what it's going to take to cancel a subscription.  Be sure to budget for a lawyer:  it will cost about as much as a perpetual license.
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    firecrestphoto
    Participant
    November 1, 2018
    So if you use photoshop several times a week and have done for years, then your income falls due to ill health, lower pay following redundancy and you have to cancel all but essential expenses, you also lose the tool that you need to fulfil your creativity! This is why perpetual licence is vital for those of us who regularlys use photoshop.
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    FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor
    Inspiring
    October 31, 2018
    i do not see what the problem is with some people, before PS went into the cloud, i could not afford the $100s to $1000s of dollars that were charged for this program.

    this is a whole lot better idea of buying software, you get the latest versions( i agree that sometimes the update does not work for everybody) but most of the time it does.

    and as to canceling a subscription, that is very easy to do. been there done that with illustrator,  used the program for what i wanted then canceled.

    as to before when buying the program, you never DID!!. you only had a license to use it.
    and then you had to pay more money to get a update.... very primitive if you ask me.
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    FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor
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    March 13, 2018
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    c.pfaffenbichler
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    c.pfaffenbichlerCommunity Expert
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    March 12, 2018
    First off: I am not an Adobe representative! 
    Have you actually calculated the costs of the Photography Plan for the likely length of your usage compared to perpetual licenses and upgrades for comparable products or Adobe’s previous licensing model? 

    In any case if you are not willing to accept the licensing model Adobe has decided on then I guess there are alternatives available that either offer perpetual licenses (Affinity Photo for example) or are freeware (Gimp for example). 
    From what I’ve read some of them may in some regards even offer superior features/performance. 
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