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Adobe - Photoshop and their "Subscriptions"
I have been a Photoshop user since the very first release of the
software for the PC way back in what, 1990? 1994?? Both personal and at all of the screenprinting companies I managed over the years and right up to my own personal photography work. I looked at GIMP once, Same with COREL..... and a few other wannabe's. Through all the years I've been a loyal Adobe customer and never really considered anything else as the Photoshop products always did well for me. Over the weekend I purchased a Nikon D3200 camera. This camera uses NEF-Compressed RAW format. I use Photoshop CS3 mostly out of laziness in updating. Also though there is the cost with seeming annual upgrades. CS3 did everything I need it to do so if it ain't broken don't fix it. My research and updating of CS3 let to naught as those of you in the "know" will nod your heads to. So I figured I would call Adobe and learn what the cost would be to upgrade. Imagine my surprise when I learned of Adobe's current Subscription demands to have the privilege of using their products. I understand some Harvard MBA's brilliant idea in try to develop a "locked in" customer base. I mean isn't that what every business wants? A SECURE market share! I understand some Fisk Economics PhD coming up with the idea that a steady flow of cash would be far easier to manage than the normal ebb and flow of cash trending. It cuts into your sailing and golf time to actually have to MANAGE your cash flow doesn't it? So now I am faced now with being a long time and loyal customer of yet another economic STEAMROLLER in the form of a massive corporation that begs for my hard earned $$$ without wanting to work as hard at customer SERVICE as I must in MY business. This locked in customer base, whether it is a 2 year cell phone CONTRACT or an ongoing subscription for the privilege of using Adobe's products is, in my humble Opinion complete and utter bull****. Let's try this concept: Develop a Superior Product. Sell it at a fair market price by BUILDING VALUE in your product. THEN secure your market share through EXEMPLARY customer service and support! THAT is how you build a LOYAL customer base and market share! In short I would like all these overpaid MBA's to go a little OLD SCHOOL and learn what CUSTOMER SATISFACTION is all about and what satisfied customers mean to the health of a major company. Didn't they teach you in your MBA classes that Loyal customers grow from HAPPY and PLEASED buyers that perceive VALUE form the spending of their hard earned dollars on your products! That's not good enough for the Marketing Gestapo today though. They know that the state of customer service in America today is pathetic! They KNOW they cannot compete toe to toe AND **** off their clientele with crappy service! So, they figure a captive clientele is better. No It's not! Now I find alternatives to Photoshop. When I leave a company with my loyalty crapped on...I will never go back. This is going to hurt Adobe badly...... Oh and the ONLY people diving feet first into this CLOUD bull**** like Adobe and every other company is touting so heavily.......is the WORST idea EVER. You might as well give your sensitive information to the Taliban! Farewell Adobe...... It's been nice but I'm done with y'all! |
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wrote: I have been a Photoshop user since the very first release of the software for the PC way back in what, 1990? 1994?? Both personal and at all of the screenprinting companies I managed over the years and right up to my own personal photography work. I looked at GIMP once, Same with COREL..... and a few other wannabe's. Through all the years I've been a loyal Adobe customer and never really considered anything else as the Photoshop products always did well for me. Over the weekend I purchased a Nikon D3200 camera. This camera uses NEF-Compressed RAW format. I use Photoshop CS3 mostly out of laziness in updating. Also though there is the cost with seeming annual upgrades. CS3 did everything I need it to do so if it ain't broken don't fix it. if cs3 was doing everything you needed all this time, then you don't need to update to cs6 or creative cloud. photoshop elements for $60 is all you need. rest of your rant snipped. |
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In article , Alan Browne
wrote: Over the weekend I purchased a Nikon D3200 camera. This camera uses NEF-Compressed RAW format. I use Photoshop CS3 mostly out of laziness in updating. Also though there is the cost with seeming annual upgrades. CS3 did everything I need it to do so if it ain't broken don't fix it. I didn't read most of your rant but here's what you do: 1. Get the free Adobe DNGConverter to convert your raw files to DNG. 2. Keep using CS3 as before. that also works. |
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On Mon, 03 Jun 2013 20:16:22 -0400, Alan Browne
wrote: On 2013.06.03 19:19 , wrote: Over the weekend I purchased a Nikon D3200 camera. This camera uses NEF-Compressed RAW format. I use Photoshop CS3 mostly out of laziness in updating. Also though there is the cost with seeming annual upgrades. CS3 did everything I need it to do so if it ain't broken don't fix it. I didn't read most of your rant but here's what you do: 1. Get the free Adobe DNGConverter to convert your raw files to DNG. 2. Keep using CS3 as before. Thank you both very much. Sorry about the rant.... Been months since I had a good one and that certainly did not qualify as a good one. However I am disapointed in Adobe. Actually I started out just to say I thought this was going to hurt them. Also, this is what I get for having lived in a cave for a couple of years. Elements you say? Hummm. DNG. Had not gotten that far into the problem solving. Been to enraptured with the new camera. You both have, magnanimously given me a couple of directions to pursue. Thank you for your generosity and for mercifully snipping the rest of a poor rant aired in the wrong place. |
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On 2013-06-04 08:29:05 -0700, philo* said:
On 06/03/2013 06:19 PM, wrote: I have been a Photoshop user since the very first release of the software for the PC way back in what, 1990? 1994?? Both personal and at all of the screenprinting companies I managed over the years and right up to my own personal photography work. I looked at GIMP once, Same with COREL..... and a few other wannabe's. snipped for brevity Since I do minimal processing , GIMP is way more than I need...however most of my professional level friends do use Photoshop and it sure can get pricey to upgrade. Last time I heard, if it's more than one level you have to start new. Many of the folks are just staying with CS-2 and are saying they see nothing in the newer versions they really need. The issue comes for owners of new cameras who shoot RAW. They do not have the ACR support for their new cameras in the dated version of ACR in CS2, or in the OP's case CS3. For Mac users with the move from PPC Macs to Intel there are even fewer options, as the Intel Macs will not run CS2, unless in a Windows partition. The various options for the OP to deal with the NEF files from his new DSLR were discussed further back in this thread. -- Regards, Savageduck |
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On 2013.06.03 20:45 , wrote:
On Mon, 03 Jun 2013 20:16:22 -0400, Alan Browne wrote: On 2013.06.03 19:19 , wrote: Over the weekend I purchased a Nikon D3200 camera. This camera uses NEF-Compressed RAW format. I use Photoshop CS3 mostly out of laziness in updating. Also though there is the cost with seeming annual upgrades. CS3 did everything I need it to do so if it ain't broken don't fix it. I didn't read most of your rant but here's what you do: 1. Get the free Adobe DNGConverter to convert your raw files to DNG. 2. Keep using CS3 as before. Thank you both very much. Sorry about the rant.... Been months since I had a good one and that certainly did not qualify as a good one. However I am disapointed in Adobe. Actually I started out just to say I thought this was going to hurt them. Also, this is what I get for having lived in a cave for a couple of years. Elements you say? I didn't say Elements at all. I said: 1) Get the free DNG converter and 2) _continue_ using CS3 with the DNG files instead of the NEF. -- "A Canadian is someone who knows how to have sex in a canoe." -Pierre Berton |
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