Yikes! sorry to hear that. I'm guessing it depends on your needs. I work at a university and Adobe has huge issues with it's authentication servers at the enterprise level. Some enterprise customers that are paying for the Creative Cloud and are having problems. Though the university is paying for the service, students have to log on to their own Creative Cloud account to access what the school is already paying for. It's convoluted.a couple of hundred dollars a year for the programs ( book designing software and photoshop included in same package )
it is well worth the $$ I spent. I had a horrific experience with Affinity. No customer service, no help, just angry harsh mean people at their 800#.
10 day trial wasn't much of a trial since the program didn't work and my questions to the "community help page" were "stuck in the pipe" for 8 of the 10 days
and never answered. even though PS is way more expensive, at least you get help from people who know the program, who are polite, and want to help you, my experience was pretty much the opposite at Affinity...
I thought Adobe had a free program to convert RAW files to DNG.
Bad analogy. A car has a useful life in miles. If you drive professionally and use 50K milesper year, you need to buy a new car in two years. If you are retired and drive 5k miles per year, you buy a new car in 20 years. If the car cost $40k initially, the professional driver expense $20k for each of 2 years; the retired person spends $2k per year for 20 years.I think my Toyota Camry should be cheaper for me because unlike my neighbor I don’t use it to make money as an Uber driver. Really the car should be free for me because I’m just using it for fun. Or something like that.
Essentially, software is a service, not a thing.
Pricing services is much more difficult than pricing things, because the markets for services are much more complex than the markets for things.
And pricing for anything where the buyers expect free improvements regularly is insanely more complex.
what can ya do, that's life .. poor customer service at a lot of companies, and the guy I talked to wasYikes! sorry to hear that. I'm
The key to true success in business is, "Find a customer and KEEP him/her coming back". I keep going back to Corel for PaintShop Pro, without them signing me up for monthly subscription and without me always seeking new value in every new release. Adobe meanwhile has not benefited by my expenditure at all, under subscription. I'd say Corel is doing better at keeping me, for one, coming back and buying more from them...I have been a customer of both Adobe and Corel, starting in 2002 and I know Corel has more of my money.
Bad analogy. A car has a useful life in miles. If you drive professionally and use 50K milesper year, you need to buy a new car in two years. If you are retired and drive 5k miles per year, you buy a new car in 20 years. If the car cost $40k initially, the professional driver expense $20k for each of 2 years; the retired person spends $2k per year for 20 years.
So, for cars, each driver type has a PROPORTIONAL EXPENSE per year, based on the VALUE received each year...the value received is different, the annual expense is different.
I have always used LR for RAW conversion. Paintshop Pro is nowhere as robust as LR.What features in Corel Paintshop Pro have you considering moving away from Lightroom 6 for your digital images going forward?
There is a poll which I initiated in June 2021, asking folks which RAW conversion software they use.I don't know if Adobe uses the same engine for both Lightroom and Camera Raw, but I did notice a difference between Camera Raw and Affinity. This is a good topic for a thread in the digital forum (is there isn't one already).
I’d avoid subscriptions and go for a perpetual license software which Adobe does not offer. Here’s Affinity Photo. Will work on Mac OS and Windows.
https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/photo/full-feature-list/
I too do not believe in renting software.
But you do - with respect to the Operating System.At lease we do not (yet) have OS as a service or Microprocessor as a service.
Bob
But you do - with respect to the Operating System.
The OS is licensed, not owned.
It is only supported by the supplier for a finite period of time, after which one needs to either put up with more and more vulnerability and legacy software issues, or comply with the supplier's terms for replacement/upgrade.
Enterprise copies of the OS are often provided on a subscription basis.
Even if you go the Linux route, you end up "paying" continually, in terms of time and effort and/or money.
I can. Because developers also need to pay their rent.... but I simply cannot abide a subscription plan.
What about a BIOS as a service?! or video card graphics software as a service?!At lease we do not (yet) have OS as a service or Microprocessor as a service.
Bob
I can. Because developers also need to pay their rent.
If every single piece of software was free, who would finance it? Most Linux developers have some kind of paying developer job and their contributions to Linux are on a hobbyist basis. And some Linux distributions cost a lot of money, charge a lot for support, and so on. Are you aware that Microsoft is one of the biggest contributors to the Linux Foundation? Also Oracle? Now, if we all stopped purchasing MS products and that money was also gone....
I contributed to Linux years ago (AoE), got €0 for it, but worked at a company charging for software and my employer was OK with "wasting" some time on Linux code. Who are the top contributors to the Linux codebase right now: Huawei, Intel, Red Hat, Google,.....who don't work for "free" or for altruistic reasons.
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