Congratulations!

They will crop it - link to Heritage Railway here

I don't hoard my photo's for the next generation, I don't plan on children.

But I don't delete images unless they are really out of focus, etc.

Just as an example of one that I'm pleased to have kept ...

My wife started her own business last year (she is a vet) and one of my pictures of Fidget, one of our cats has become 'the face' of the practice, she's going to be blown up to be put on the back of buses* in the next few weeks - I don't think it's a bad picture, I just think it's a nothing picture.

edit - hard disks are cheap so there really is no reason to delete images


* what is the plural of 'bus' - google / word spell check didn't give me a definitive answer

It won't stop piracy as you still have to download the software and install it locally on your PC. It won't take people long to work how to stop it 'phoning home' once a month to stop it from being disabled, as already mentioned, it's been cracked already so no, it won't stop piracy.

Just to be clear - I could download the trial version of Photoshop this afternoon, and apply a simple 'fix' to stop it timing out after 30 days. Adobe have done nothing to address this as of yet.

I probably didn't explain my migration point very clearly, but I was agreeing with you in that I do not believe people will migrate to something else, they will just subscribe and continue with what they have. I was replying to suggestions that people will be leaving Adobe in large numbers, which won't be happening.


edit - I should have asked you why you think the subscription licensing model will stop piracy?

With respect that is just wrong - this will do nothing at all to even slow down piracy, I think the only way to stop piracy completely is to make it a 100% cloud based application, which may happen in many years ...

I've already mentioned, but amateurs like us are not Adobe's main user base for the CS Suite and professionals will not want to spend the time, money and risk on migrating to a new system, that will probably cost more than the software to start with.

There are 2 issues with the new policy - 1 Cost, 2 Tie In. If you are a pro then you probably upgrade every year regardless and therefore won't see as big an increase in cost as someone that used to skip versions. Pro's don't care about being tied in as I've already said, they would rather stay with what they know.

If Adobe do increase profits from this then it's very hard to argue it's not the correct decision. If they don't then maybe it will revert back.

I suspect it's because you can't continue to use the software when you stop subscribing, while you can if you purchased it normally.

Sounds like a good thing then?

You may be right but I think the issue is the challengers themselves, I can't see any of them being able to produce something that could rival Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Bridge, nevermind have them all integrated and compatible with the existing Adobe formats, which would be required for anyone to consider moving over.

I mention those 4 products above as that's what we use at work, and if the price doubles we will continue to pay it as it's not worth the time and effort to retrain the workforce and migrate the data. We're a fairly big company though so obviously doesn't apply to many.

Honestly, I think that longer term, this is only going to effect amateurs and hobbyists and CS Suite has never been aimed at those people.

I don't disagree with you by the way, I think the new subscription only policy stinks, but I'm more hopeful that Adobe will relent and will have both licensing models running rather than a serious rival appearing.

Yes I agree, I should have probably read the entire article more closely rather than just skimming over it (another 'The Register' headline moment!). It is quite possible they will u-turn if they do receive enough negative feedback, look at the back tracking Microsoft have done recently (Windows 8.1 / XBox).

I'm not against the rental model, it will suit us at work as it will be much easier to get through the budget each year, but this probably doesn't apply to small business. What bothers me more about it is the possible requirement to connect to the internet to confirm it's live 'feature' - these things never work in an enterprise environment (I'm an IT admin that will be getting all the complaints!) - though they can't possibly do a bad a job as Autodesk have with their AutoCAD products (what's a proxy server?).

Whatever happens, Adobe are not going anywhere and the 'this will be the end of Adobe' comments are hyperbole in my opinion.

Maybe a change of heart though there is nothing definite in here ...

Adobe CEO admits need to tweak Cloud Only Policy

I won't comment on the people one's, not that I don't like them, they are just not the sort of photo's I ever take ...

Really like 1 & 2, but for the second one I would probably have the lake in the middle so that that the reflection was the same as the horizon - not rule of thirds I know!

Also, really like the pet one's but the last one is possibly shot too low for my liking, think I would have liked more of the dog rather than the backgound - similar to how you have the previous dog shot.

Nice photo's though - they are quite striking and I'd be really happy with them though I'd have gone for a different composition.

UK pricing is here

For just Photoshop it's £17.58 a month or the full suite is £27.34 a month if you are upgrading from CS3 updwards, I'd imagine this price is open to USD / GBP fluctuation ...

The dodgy copies of Photoshop I've seen (I don't run one!) have been based on the 30 day trial with a hack to stop them timing out after 30 days. This will still happen with future versions so nothing to do with piracy I think ...