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article on Adobe Creatice Cloud
shotupdave:
Recommendations to Students Regarding Adobe Creative Cloud
http://visualstudies.buffalo.edu/vsFacilities/2014/01/10/recommendations-to-students-regarding-adobe-creative-cloud/
ShadySue:
"If a designer ever stops paying the monthly fee to Adobe for whatever reason, after a 30 day grace period they will not be able to open or edit any previously created work."
This isn't completely true, it depends what format you save your work in. E.g. it's true if you save photos out as .psds, but not e.g. .tif or .jpg.
Think about it - it can be necesary in any situation for someone owning photoshop to be able to share files with people who use other software, or who want to put photos into Word, put them on Flickr, Fb or an agency as jpgs etc.
(Not defending the subscription model, but this is one of the commonest inaccuracies.)
shotupdave:
its more of the cost structure they are really worried about
Jo Ann Snover:
--- Quote from: ShadySue on February 08, 2014, 22:31 ---"If a designer ever stops paying the monthly fee to Adobe for whatever reason, after a 30 day grace period they will not be able to open or edit any previously created work."
This isn't completely true, it depends what format you save your work in. E.g. it's true if you save photos out as .psds, but not e.g. .tif or .jpg.
Think about it - it can be necesary in any situation for someone owning photoshop to be able to share files with people who use other software, or who want to put photos into Word, put them on Flickr, Fb or an agency as jpgs etc.
(Not defending the subscription model, but this is one of the commonest inaccuracies.)
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There are all sorts of things you can't save any other way than in a PSD file. JPEG is fine for an output format, but that's really it. If you have a multi-layer 16 bit PSD file loaded with adjustment layers or smart objects the only way to preserve that is a PSD file. Most of the other apps that can open PSD files can't handle layers or only handle some types of layers.
My "forever" files are the RAW, the layered PSD files and JPEGs as uploaded. Almost all my work is represented in the PSD files and I can't get at that any other way than Photoshop CS6. I can and do go back to older files to steal bits, edit differently etc.
People pay the big bucks for Photoshop because their images matter. The technical truth that you can export in other formats doesn't hide the practical truth that without the PSD what you have is worth very little.
The article covers two aspects of the problems with CC - for the University it's the cost structure, for the students its that if they get on the hamster wheel of CC they're stuck paying and paying and paying.
Beppe Grillo:
--- Quote from: ShadySue on February 08, 2014, 22:31 ---"If a designer ever stops paying the monthly fee to Adobe for whatever reason, after a 30 day grace period they will not be able to open or edit any previously created work."
This isn't completely true, it depends what format you save your work in. E.g. it's true if you save photos out as .psds, but not e.g. .tif or .jpg.
Think about it - it can be necesary in any situation for someone owning photoshop to be able to share files with people who use other software, or who want to put photos into Word, put them on Flickr, Fb or an agency as jpgs etc.
(Not defending the subscription model, but this is one of the commonest inaccuracies.)
--- End quote ---
I can open any psd created with Photoshop CC with the previous Photoshop versions, I do it every day.
And I can open any psd created with previous photoshop versions with Photoshop CC, I do it every day too.
So I don't understand where is the problem?
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