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I think this is a cracking idea for freelancers. I know we pay out close to 2k for the web premium version and its outdated every year now as they are releasing

I think this is a cracking idea for freelancers. I know we pay out close to 2k for the web premium version and its outdated every year now as they are releasing a new version nearly once a year!

city41 16y ago
How does Adobe make the new version relevant enough to warrant its purchase? Do they do so in an honest or deceptive way? I'm not a designer, but I use Illustrator often. I just bought Illustrator 10 for about $100 and it more than meets my needs. How many truly relevant new features can really be added to a vector drawing program?
- mneedham 16y ago
  Not sure about Illustrator but Photoshop makes upgrades pretty compelling by adding sexy new features. Like the content-aware fill in CS5 - novel/useful/fun enough to make everyone want to give it a go. Generated a ton of conversation pre-launch and likely contributed to a lot of new sales and upgrades.
- chrislomax 16y ago
  Well not that we actually use it because we are a .net studio here but, the version of Dreamweaver in the packages has to be updated at least once a year to take into account new standards etc. Obviously when the web switched from tables to div's then Dreamweaver had a lot of changes to make also. I think you are right regarding the Illustrator issue though, I still have CS2 on my machine and I don't think there has been a noticable change up to CS5, that might be why its one of the cheaper subscriptions?? Photoshop is constantly changing in my eyes, they introduced the 3d tool 2 versions ago and I would imagine they spend the next few versions perfecting it. At that point they introduce another big feature. I think a lot of the time the upgrades are non essential though and are just a money spinner. Apple do it though once a year but they only charge a nominal fee for their software. Microsoft do it every few years but they are a rip off. I know that if I was a Freelancer and my software was not covered by the company then I would be more inclined to go down this route than downloading it. I don't know many freelancers that start up and can afford the latest version of any of Adobe's products. They are the industry standard and they have people by the balls, this way they can try to get potential illegal downloaders interested.

I think this is a cracking idea for freelancers. I know we pay out close to 2k for the web premium version and its outdated every year now as they are releasing a new version nearly once a year!

city41 16y ago

How does Adobe make the new version relevant enough to warrant its purchase? Do they do so in an honest or deceptive way? I'm not a designer, but I use Illustrator often. I just bought Illustrator 10 for about $100 and it more than meets my needs. How many truly relevant new features can really be added to a vector drawing program?

mneedham 16y ago
Not sure about Illustrator but Photoshop makes upgrades pretty compelling by adding sexy new features. Like the content-aware fill in CS5 - novel/useful/fun enough to make everyone want to give it a go. Generated a ton of conversation pre-launch and likely contributed to a lot of new sales and upgrades.
chrislomax 16y ago
Well not that we actually use it because we are a .net studio here but, the version of Dreamweaver in the packages has to be updated at least once a year to take into account new standards etc. Obviously when the web switched from tables to div's then Dreamweaver had a lot of changes to make also. I think you are right regarding the Illustrator issue though, I still have CS2 on my machine and I don't think there has been a noticable change up to CS5, that might be why its one of the cheaper subscriptions?? Photoshop is constantly changing in my eyes, they introduced the 3d tool 2 versions ago and I would imagine they spend the next few versions perfecting it. At that point they introduce another big feature. I think a lot of the time the upgrades are non essential though and are just a money spinner. Apple do it though once a year but they only charge a nominal fee for their software. Microsoft do it every few years but they are a rip off. I know that if I was a Freelancer and my software was not covered by the company then I would be more inclined to go down this route than downloading it. I don't know many freelancers that start up and can afford the latest version of any of Adobe's products. They are the industry standard and they have people by the balls, this way they can try to get potential illegal downloaders interested.