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25 bucks a month for students is not that bad. And 50 month is totally reasonable. I find it much more accessible than before. And honestly I think that's less
by bigd 13y ago
25 bucks a month for students is not that bad. And 50 month is totally reasonable.
I find it much more accessible than before. And honestly I think that's less than the money the average person here spends monthly at coffee-shops. Or in one night out!
Here's how you can afford it: avoid eating 5 sandwiches in a posh bar per month, and cook sometimes by yourself.
- csmithuk 13y agoMy IT budget for the year is about $500. Doesn't fit.
- bigd 13y agoBut for what i remember, neither illustrator or photoshop cs5 alone did fit in that. EDIT: http://www.adobe.com/products/catalog/cs6._sl_id-contentfilter_sl_catalog_sl_software_sl_creativesuite6.html http://www.adobe.com/products/catalog/cs6._sl_id-contentfilt... http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2362428,00.asp http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2362428,00.asp
- ubojan 13y agobut you could buy software once and use it for several years, skipping a few versions before upgrade. There are lots of users that don't need latest bells and whistles.
- csmithuk 13y agoThis. I used Fireworks MX (released 2002) until 2 years ago
- hartator 13y agoYeaaah, I am not the only one. It was the good old time! Each new version after the MX was a deception, damn Adobe. You switch to what?
- csmithuk 13y agoInkscape and gimp.
- webmanoffesto 13y agoI agree. Inkscape and Gimp do everything I need them to do. The last time I hit a limitation was when I needed Inkscape to create a multi-page document. But that was more than a year ago and I managed without that function.
- csmithuk 13y agoI think the only irritation I get is gimp startup time on windows. Need a replacement for Adobe Lightroom and I'm sorted then :)
- dasil003 13y agoYes I spend more than that on coffee, I drink very good coffee every day and I enjoy it. If I used Photoshop every day I would also find their pricing reasonable, but the reality is I can go 6 months without needing Photoshop. I don't need advice on how to afford it, I am not a student and I have plenty of money. My point is that the old pricing model was at least justifiable for me whereas the new pricing model is just not suitable for me in any way. To capitulate to this greedy new regime would be a slap in the face for upstarts like Pixelmator who are doing a great product at a reasonable value, it's no Photoshop, but at least they aren't just trying to juice the orange of all the people that are extrinsically locked into their file formats.