[Locked] Can you purchase photoshop permanently rather than yearly?

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It's almost 2019 and I'm still using CS6. Back in 2013 I've paid about 400€ and so far it's still working like a charm, so I don't think I'll ever join the subscription-model for my professional work. The alternatives are growing and very close to what Photoshop offers, so as soon as MacOS tells me "CS6 no more" I'll get another software. Adobe lost me as their customer, who has been working with Photoshop since 1995. Just saying...

Malware?  These are unopened unregistered retail editions that I'm referring to on ebay!  Lol, I guess windows 7 is out of date to you!  I do motion graphics and 3D animation and that's the only OS all my software runs on!  Cs2 and Cs3 run just fine on windows 7, not being able to activate them is news to me.

the 'creator' ? Does God hangs out here

I think you will find if you shop around that commercial printers will take RGB files now and do the pre-press work for you. They will of course charge for that, but it avoids a lot of problems with needing to know the type of press they are using and the paper type they will print on. Your problem will be getting your on screen image to look acceptable when printed. Photoshop Elements does not have a capability to convert to CMYK , you need Photoshop CS6 or CC for that and this means your on screen preview in Elements is likely to look very different when printed. You could try printing to an ink jet printer as that does an on the fly conversion to CMYK, but really you should ask your printer to make a high quality proof before committing to an expensive print run.

Well,

I have Master Collection CS5 and CC2017.  Sorry, I would feel naked without my perpetual CS5 license and I'm planning to upgrade it to CS6 very soon while I still can.  I like the whole idea of not waiting for a major update and putting a couple of grand on the table, but it didn't bother me either.  I purchased CS3, skipped CS4, then purchased CS5 Master Collection as soon as it was released.  So the argument for the subscription and how it is such a deal, probably doesn't apply to myself or many Master Collection users, because we were only upgrading every other release.  Lets say your paying $450 a year for CC, as a comparison from CS4 to CS6 was 5 years 2008 to 2013.  You would have paid over $2250 for those 5 years on a CC subscription, and I don't believe upgrading from CS4 Master Collection to CS6 Master Collection would have cost that much, I could be wrong!  I'm not saying their aren't any earthshattering cool features in CC, the fact is we would have still gotten them via subscription.  Personally, the biggest difference I see is the addition of free plugins in CC, that we had to purchase before.

I think the reality that gets lost in all of this is 80% of the people/clients I meet and or do work for are still using CS3.  Now that's an interesting question, how big is the actual CS3 install base.  It must be quite large because every bookstore you go into, all the adobe help titles are for CS3!

eBay has never been an authorised agent for Adobe software and is a high risk place to buy. This is a case of you pay your money and take your chance if you proceed-Adobe will not help with this. You won't get a serial number until you purchase and will know if the serial is blacklisted straight away as the software will not install. If it has been generated by a keygen the software may install , but the new validation service will eventually work out it is a counterfeit and will start popping up an annoying warning every few minutes-unfortunately as that might take a couple of months you will not be able to get your money back from the supplier. If you ever try to reinstall you will then find the serial gets rejected. You are also locking yourself into a particular operating system. For a time CS6 was not expected to work on Sierra -Adobe never even tested it formally on that OS. You therefore have no guarantee CS6 will run on future versions of OSX and as there is no development work undertaken with CS6 that will not change.