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> I will never be able to afford Photoshop Seriously? It’s $10/month on the Photography Plan, and you get Lightroom and some online storage in the same bundle

> I will never be able to afford Photoshop Seriously? It’s $10/month on the Photography Plan, and you get Lightroom and some online storage in the same bundle as well: https://www.adobe.com/creativecloud/photography.html I get that $120/year is significant, but it doesn’t take much payback in terms of time saved to make it worthwhile. If you can’t squeeze $120/year of use value out of Photoshop and Lightroom, you probably don’t do enough image editing and photography to make any photo app worth buying.

Kuraj 7y ago
Well, if I had subscribed to PS back then I would have spent like $500 by now. I just don't use it nearly enough to justify paying a subscription. I might not even use it for months at a time. Affinity cost me like $50, once. The mere comfort of just being able to use it whenever you need it is worth that money to me.
- wyoung2 7y ago
  $500 is still less than the one-time price of Photoshop back when it was sold in boxes. Photoshop is well worth $120/year if you're able to use a big enough fraction of its power. One way to look at it, then, is that you don't use enough of what Photoshop can do to be worth it, so you can stick with whatever simpler tool you prefer and save the money. Another option, though, is to realize that there's a lot of power there to be had, and it's worth spending the time to learn to harness it. I put it that way because I keep coming across people who talk about their favorite image editor as "just as good as Photoshop" for their purposes while they clearly have no idea what all Photoshop can do. Here's a tutorial I did for Photoshop once that probably can be done only in Photoshop: https://photo.stackexchange.com/a/57233/4141 Now, I don't expect you to need to retexture pictures of couches, but I'll bet if you read through that tutorial, you'll be surprised that such things even could be done in off-the-shelf software. Then realize that I'm not even a full-time professional in graphical arts. If I can pull off such tricks, what can a real expert do with it? By the way, Lightroom was another $120 or so for the initial license when it was last sold in boxes. Then there's all the upgrades, which you also now get as part of the subscription. Your $50 just isn't apples-to-apples.
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Kuraj 7y ago

Well, if I had subscribed to PS back then I would have spent like $500 by now. I just don't use it nearly enough to justify paying a subscription. I might not even use it for months at a time. Affinity cost me like $50, once. The mere comfort of just being able to use it whenever you need it is worth that money to me.

wyoung2 7y ago
$500 is still less than the one-time price of Photoshop back when it was sold in boxes. Photoshop is well worth $120/year if you're able to use a big enough fraction of its power. One way to look at it, then, is that you don't use enough of what Photoshop can do to be worth it, so you can stick with whatever simpler tool you prefer and save the money. Another option, though, is to realize that there's a lot of power there to be had, and it's worth spending the time to learn to harness it. I put it that way because I keep coming across people who talk about their favorite image editor as "just as good as Photoshop" for their purposes while they clearly have no idea what all Photoshop can do. Here's a tutorial I did for Photoshop once that probably can be done only in Photoshop: https://photo.stackexchange.com/a/57233/4141 Now, I don't expect you to need to retexture pictures of couches, but I'll bet if you read through that tutorial, you'll be surprised that such things even could be done in off-the-shelf software. Then realize that I'm not even a full-time professional in graphical arts. If I can pull off such tricks, what can a real expert do with it? By the way, Lightroom was another $120 or so for the initial license when it was last sold in boxes. Then there's all the upgrades, which you also now get as part of the subscription. Your $50 just isn't apples-to-apples.
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