Can't reply in the Photoshop Forum, either. But what happened to the Illustrator Forum? Only THREE discussions????? ... View more

> Props to Adobe for listening to its customers.  Looks like I'll be upgrading to CS6 after all.  I hope too many people didn't rush to buy CS5.5 last month, just for that 20% discount (though I see it's still in effect even now, even though it was supposed to end with the old year). I noticed that too. I currently have 5.5 in my Adobe shopping cart. I figured I'd keep it there until March 15, and then pull the trigger, on the chance I'd fall into the "grace period", you know, if you bought less than xxx ago, get the new one free. I 've been having a tough time justifying buying into every new version of the entire suite, especially when only some of the apps have compelling new features. I'm so glad I can again skip a version like I've been, and then have a couple of years until I have to confront the issue again. ... View more

For me, it's not so much the priciple of the change, it's the lack of funds. <Homer Simpson> Stupid economy! </Homer Simpson> I suppose, if I do get the CS5.5 upgrade, but don't fall into the grace period, I'd still have like two years to get the upgrade to CS6.0 before I'd be SOL about upgrading to CS7.0. Maybe I'll win the Lotto or something. I wonder how this will play out with Adobe's European customers, as they already pay much more than Americans do. ... View more

I'm trying to decide now if the newer features of the Suite, especially Content Aware Fill in Photoshop and Perspective Grids in Illustrator, combined with the 20% discount, would be enough for me to justify the 5.5 upgrade now. I have 25 days to decide (when the discount ends). There's so many other purchases I've been forgoing, other software, lenses, et al., that it will take a lot of thought and consideration. And you just wait, the grace peiod will be, "If you bought 5.5 after January 1, 2012". Damn, Adobe, you used to be cool. ... View more

The main advantage I see as an owner licenseee of a whole suite edition is if the individual apps were updated as they are ready, rather than waiting for the whole suite to be ready to go. We shall see. By the way, note that there is a Crative Cloud forum: here. ... View more

Bob the Sign Guy wrote: It wouldn't surprise if Adobe changes up terms to where someone couldn't sell their aging license to someone else. BTW, IMHO the prices in the subscription plan are a giant rip-off for anyone using these products on a long term basis. Going by the prices in the Adobe Store, a one year subscription to Master Collection would cost over $1500 per year ($1548 is $129 X 12). The $129 price X 18 months is $2322. The $50 subscription price some have been mentioning in regard to Scott Kelby's open letter only applied to a Photoshop Extended subscription alone. It does not include any other Creative Suite products. Overall, it is a lot cheaper to keep buying the upgrade boxes. The subscription model only seems useful if someone has to use a certain Adobe product on a very temporary basis. Amen. And remember, the life cycle of CS is now like two years. So, assuming the pricing structure does not change drastically (but who knows?) I can ugrade to CS5.5 Design Premium, from CS4, for $650, and then to CS6 (due mid 2012) for around $400. So an outlay of $$1050 and I'm good for thirty months. An annual subscription at $95 per month over the same period is over $2800! A full version of CS6 would be like $1900 - nearly a grand less! From the CS FAQ: Why is Adobe changing its upgrade policy for CS6? In October 2011, Adobe introduced Adobe Creative Cloud, a complete solution of cloud-based creative services, applications, and community that will enable customers to create, publish, and share across channels and mediums. Creative Cloud will be offered for as low as US$49.99 per month for an annual plan, providing our customers maximum flexibility and lower cost of entry. Given this innovative new offering at such an attractive price, we expect that many of our customers will become Creative Cloud members. To that end, we are simplifying our perpetual license offerings for Creative Suite. This change is designed to streamline our offerings while simplifying the choices our customers need to make. Customers may choose to keep their Creative Suite perpetual licenses current in order to receive upgrade pricing when new versions of Creative Suite are released, or move to Adobe Creative Cloud when it becomes available, at an extremely attractive and affordable price. So, Adobe is doing us a favor by simplifying our options? Whatever they're smoking, I want some! ... View more