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 p.8 #15 · Adobe Photoshop & Creative Suite Subscription-only! | |
tived wrote:
Guys,
Sell a couple of photos and pay your subscription. For those of us who make a living from using Creative Suite or Photoshop etc... its the cost of doing business, like the petrol price that keeps going up.
You are not going to say to a client that I am really sorry I can't take your photos because its too expensive to drive there, add it into your cost!
Most knucklehead photographers (Sorry if it offends) forget to charge for photo editing - its time = $$$, plus your cost of equipment over time.
To those that do this just for the heck of it as a hobby, well photography is still cheaper then running a PowerBoat/Car every weekend, but not by much ;-)
I did join the subscription at the beginning of it, because I didn't have the cashflow at the time to do the whole upgrade, as I was one step behind or two versions... I am getting more programs in this then I need, some of them I might play around with but most I won't use at all
Piracy, could I get and use one of these, sure I could get it, its easy. Its just that I also get upset when someone uses my images without paying for them. So I am having a little issue with it, given that I do make some money out of using the software. But each to their own...
Enjoy the future of pixel pushing ;-) and have fun
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Henrik,
No one responded to your relatively rational though in my option incorrect analysis. (And I admit that quite likely I'm a knucklehead because I'm a long way from getting rich in this extremely poor region  ) Yes software (and the hardware to run it) is part of the cost of doing business. So is the petrol to get there, the time invested not only in shooting but also processing, the time spent getting paid, doing the books, it keeps going. All of us small/independent ventures know this - or certainly learn it quickly.
There are two fundamental flaws, as I see it in your "real photographers pay up and shut up" response.
First, I lost control of my tools. PP software is just as important as the hardware that records the image. Think of a camera. What if Canikon only "rented" you the use of your camera? Every 30 days send them a check (that every single one of us know will go up year by year), and you can keep taking pictures. Stop paying, no pictures. More precisely they keep changing the camera slightly so that some point I can no longer create images in the same way I use to or would prefer to. Sure we'd adapt, we already do, but right now I can say well a 1DsII or a D2 gives me the best bang for my buck and I'm holding here cause I don't see that much difference in the photography that "I" do. Adobe has just taken that control away.
Second from a strictly accounting viewpoint I no longer can project what it's going to cost to do business. Sure, there are always unknowns, but with a purchased version of PP software, the cost is paid. It can be depreciated and as long as it continues to meet my needs I don't have to rebuy it. Yes, I upgrade and yes I know that Adobe raises its rates each time, but I had control over when I spent the money and to some extent how much I'd spend. Like many people I skipped a version or more because bluntly I either didn't have the capital or more likely couldn't see that it would increase productivity. The upgrade prorated over "my" timeline allowed me to control expenses. Now I won't know what this "service" will cost. I also have no clue what the tool will become. And then there's all that other "junk" that different professionals need but I don't. Here's a blunt claim. No one uses all of the so called "Creative Suite." If that is true, then why is everyone forced to buy it all? Yes I know Ps CC for $20@ month, but I also regularly use Ai so that's $40. Might as well pull the full freight.
I'm hanging fire here not sure what to do. I know hardware and OS upgrades will eventually push me out of any given piece of software. Is what I have now good enough, powerful enough to hold on for . . . how many years?
I don't think, at least for me, the business decision is a simple as you imply.
Robert
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