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Soaring cost
Pauws99:
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--- Quote from: Pauws99 on July 16, 2017, 00:28 ---I'm only paying £10 UK a month for LR/PS....am I going to see a big hike when the "honeymoon" runs out? Only had it three months.
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I've been on it almost (PS/LR only*) since the beginning of subs, and no hike, but who knows what will happen in the future.
It looks like that article is talking about the whole of the CC 'suite'.
It is a tax expense, though, which helps.
* and every time we get an Adobe survey, which is often, I ask for a PS only option as I never use LR. But ... :(
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Personally I use LR all the time and rarely PS goes to show different strokes.....
ShadySue:
--- Quote from: Pauws99 on July 16, 2017, 05:04 ---
--- Quote from: ShadySue on July 16, 2017, 04:16 ---
--- Quote from: Pauws99 on July 16, 2017, 00:28 ---I'm only paying £10 UK a month for LR/PS....am I going to see a big hike when the "honeymoon" runs out? Only had it three months.
--- End quote ---
I've been on it almost (PS/LR only*) since the beginning of subs, and no hike, but who knows what will happen in the future.
It looks like that article is talking about the whole of the CC 'suite'.
It is a tax expense, though, which helps.
* and every time we get an Adobe survey, which is often, I ask for a PS only option as I never use LR. But ... :(
--- End quote ---
Personally I use LR all the time and rarely PS goes to show different strokes.....
--- End quote ---
Absolutely, I know a lot of people love LR, but the interface is so very differerent from PS it's like using another prog for me, even though I stuck with a few Lynda tutorials on LR, and I havent found anything I need to do which LR does and PS doesn't, though the vice is versa.
Is the standalone LR not being updated?
Pauws99:
--- Quote from: ShadySue on July 16, 2017, 05:22 ---
--- Quote from: Pauws99 on July 16, 2017, 05:04 ---
--- Quote from: ShadySue on July 16, 2017, 04:16 ---
--- Quote from: Pauws99 on July 16, 2017, 00:28 ---I'm only paying £10 UK a month for LR/PS....am I going to see a big hike when the "honeymoon" runs out? Only had it three months.
--- End quote ---
I've been on it almost (PS/LR only*) since the beginning of subs, and no hike, but who knows what will happen in the future.
It looks like that article is talking about the whole of the CC 'suite'.
It is a tax expense, though, which helps.
* and every time we get an Adobe survey, which is often, I ask for a PS only option as I never use LR. But ... :(
--- End quote ---
Personally I use LR all the time and rarely PS goes to show different strokes.....
--- End quote ---
Absolutely, I know a lot of people love LR, but the interface is so very differerent from PS it's like using another prog for me, even though I stuck with a few Lynda tutorials on LR, and I havent found anything I need to do which LR does and PS doesn't, though the vice is versa.
Is the standalone LR not beiong updated?
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I don't know I'm happy at thye current price point to keep both for occasional PS tweaking....I intend to learn a bit more about doing the fancy stuff in PS when I get round to it. But more as my "hobby" side of photography.....I doub't many pics generate the sales that hours of sophisticated Photoshopping would warrant.
rockerstocker:
I use the old Photoshop CS6 which is still good enough and bought Affinity Photo, same quality as Photoshop, much cheaper and no monthly returning costs..... Works with apple and pc.
I never ever want to pay every month for no matter what program.
increasingdifficulty:
--- Quote from: Pauws99 on July 16, 2017, 05:36 ---I don't know I'm happy at thye current price point to keep both for occasional PS tweaking....I intend to learn a bit more about doing the fancy stuff in PS when I get round to it. But more as my "hobby" side of photography.....I doub't many pics generate the sales that hours of sophisticated Photoshopping would warrant.
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I would say that most stock photo best-sellers involve heavy and (more or less) sophisticated Photoshop work. It's just (usually) well done so you don't think about it.
Many of the all-time famous conceptual photos are actually composites of photos taken at completely different locations.
This one for example: https://petapixel.com/2015/09/24/the-iceberg-stock-photo-that-has-earned-over-900k/
And I can guarantee it's not the only one.
These are both top 20 Rome photos at Shutterstock:
https://www.shutterstock.com/sv/image-photo/colosseum-sunset-rome-italy-261029783?src=60hPqdqFuxxFY8GxCiJPhw-1-17
https://www.shutterstock.com/sv/image-photo/roman-ruins-rome-italy-316881665?src=60hPqdqFuxxFY8GxCiJPhw-1-21
Not sure I would call it "sophisticated" Photoshop work but those leaves are of course added in post.
Every "perfect" model photo requires lots of post work. Every perfect studio product shot. Etc. etc.
Many of the nice backlit photos have a fake sun/fake sunlight in them, or if there's a real one, it's always enhanced.
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