According to news posted by Adobe resellers, Adobe Creative Cloud for teams introductory prices are ending this coming November 27, and will increase by $240 per year, starting on that date.
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Adobe raising prices after getting people pulled into the cloud…WHAT A SURPRISE! Sheesh.
My Solution: Affinity Photo, Affinity Design (both excellent replacements for PS and Illustrator), FCPX, Motion, Compressor. Been Adobe-free for several months.
Affinity is MAC only.
Ladies and gentlemen, the fall of Adobe. This marks the latest in long string of bad for the user moves made by Adobe, and the rise of FOSS. Affinity + Blender + GIMP. I’m just fine watching Adobe crumble.
Where’s my tiny violin?
to be honest, Adobe is not raising the price, it’s just the discount period that is ending. Everybody who got onto the subscription knew from the beginning this day would come.
No Jonathan, this is a $240 base increase in price for Adobe CC for Teams, it is not the discount period ending. Just trying to be clear for anyone else reading. Having said that, everyone still should have seen this day coming. 😉
Yep, Jonathan is right.
Moreover, even though I don’t like Adobe anymore, there are a few things I can’t replace just yet, and I’m not sure when I’ll be able to do it.
Two above all: PS and AE. I didn’t move from CS6, though at work we did and by doing so I could prove that my decision to stick to CS6 was right. CC is just buggy, buggy as hell. Never had AE working so bad, the buggiest thing is the cache.
Gimp, I’m afraid, doesn’t work for me, it’s incredibly slow (on Win7x64), can’t even think to edit my RAW images, and if I’m not mistaken CMYK is still far from become reality.
As far as AE alternative goes, there might be something (not even sure… Hitfilm?), but still far from being a solid alternative.
So, despite I don’t like it, I’ll have to stick to some Adobe apps for who knows how long.
Aside some bugs, isn’t there enough of a performance / feature increase in PS CC2015 that it will be worth it over CS6? I’ve used them all, and I agree it does feel like there is bugs in CC, but… I don’t think PS was ever bug free either. I just don’t remember CS6 being all the glory people make it out to be. I’m curious 🙂
PS CS6 is when the crashing bugs started for me on Windows 7. CS5 was much more stable. Then when PS on CC2015 was installed, I have to make sure I save all the time. It crashes out of the blue and does not even try to restore what I was working on like CS6 would. But, I still use it for some of the improvements that were made and its speed, and hoping this fix these crash happy bugs in an update.
With AE on CC2015, it should not have been released. They broke so many things to update to the new architecture, which is not ready yet with no timeline given. No watch folder render, no rendering of multiple frames…you kidding me!
http://www.adobe.com/go/learn_ae_watchfolder
Hi Marco
Krita is a much better alternative then gimp. Fusion is also available in a free commercial form (with a few limitations) and while node based it does have a timeline to help AE users adjust.
The marketing guys can call it whatever they want. If something costs more, regardless of it being a “discount period”, then it is a price increase. Maybe Adobe will let us keep paying the old introductory price if we just say we’re paying more.
What about Krita? some say it can replace Photoshop for most things.
yup, time to give Krita a go
Kita is more a painting tool. Tested it a year ago and it was a little bit slow but maybe that´s better meanwhile. Maybe this one is a good Photoshop replacement.
https://www.thebloomapp.com/features/
formerly known as Ormr.
Never tested it and don´t know how the Development goes on,
but they promise a really great PSD importer with masks, layers and so on and it´s not overpriced.
Greets RoH
Oh oh oh my favorite subject.
I really wish Adobe fails on this venture, we are nearly away from all Adobe software, AE has a replacement, Fusion, and we will probably acquire Nuke in the future, Premiere is a thing of the past, DaVinci is doing a terrific job here, and all the others, well, they have their replacement, the hard one is Photoshop, and if Bloom has everything (or nearly everything) Photoshop has, we may ditch all Adobe software forever, and say goodbye to CC…
…did you saw any MAJOR ASTONISHING IMPROVEMENT in any of the CC apps over the years? Like those improvements that made you to acquire the new release because it was amazingly incredible!..
iMHO no… And that is what renting only does, there is no real reason for the company to invest in real improvements or new features, a few candys here and there, and that’s it…
And of course all the other things that are bad about a renting only model…
Just for this awesome feature I may give a try to bloom:
No Accidental Bi-Monthly Openings of the Bridge