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gdanmitchell wrote:
That's for the full Creative Suite, right? That's a lot of other stuff beyond Photoshop and Lightroom, so we're comparing to something that goes well beyond the other Photo apps. If you need Premiere, Illustrator, Acrobat Pro and the others... you aren't going to be comparing that to the price of C1, et al.
I did learn one new thing. The Lightroom/Photoshop bundle isn't $10/month as I suggested. Apparently that is for a Lightroom-only package. The "Photography" package that includes both along with Bridge/ACR is $20/month, for those who are Photoshop aficionados, like me.
Many people may be eligible for some deals on this. For example, there are faculty/staff discounts floating around, and some may be eligible for deals via their employers.
Here is a link to various plans and US pricing.
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Yep. I subscribe to the whole shebang. I cannot be alone, right. There's so much more than photography that I do, although much of it grew out of photography. I've designed many CD covers, posters, advertisements, bumper stickers, t-shirts and more, so it's a no brainer to get the whole bundle. But I still get the perpetual version of Capture One because it simply does the best conversions in the least amount of time, and still use Photoshop because it's far and away the best at what it does. Most of what I do would simply not be possible at all in Lightroom alone. And even though I occasionally use Premier, I also pay for the far superior DaVinci ReSolve Studio version and have an entire "home" recording studio built inside the photo studio with its dedicated digital recording interfaces, tube mics and calibrated (just like all of our Eizo's) Genelec monitoring system. The real point is, is that you buy the right equipment to do the job at hand and you learn how to use it. That often costs more money but it also leaves you with the confidence of knowing you can do the job at a level where it's professionally acceptable. The last thing I ever want to have to say to a client is to apologize for not having the right equipment on hand to do their project. It's also why I've paid for the two best focus stacking programs, Helicon and Zerene, because when one chokes the other one will usually pull through, and when it doesn't then you're back to doing it all manually in Ps. And then, sometimes miraculously, when you're working on your own stuff, be it images or music, having all those options leads you to places you didn't think were possible.
I wish people would spend less time bitching about renting software or not and more time studying film for inspiration - where sometimes cinematographers will wait for weeks just to the the right light or build custom rigs to get the camera in a place where it's never been before or figure out lighting that tells the story as much as the script, the actors or the camera movements.
Most of these software discussions should not be either/or, they should be this plus that and how to those two solutions work together to help make your work better. And then it takes seat time to learn how to drive, to learn how to see and how to apply what you have seen and learned to your own voice. The first ten thousand hours are just a beginning. The first half century, well, now we're talking.
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