Adobe Creative Cloud...

[dirkdiggler]

i think they should have made it $20 a month per user and more people would jump on it.  I won't spend $50 a month on CC, no way in hell.  I am a corel guy anyway.

And your work reflects it!  OOOHHH!  Just kidding!

[blue moon]

speak of the devil, just got a CC file that will probably not convert to CS6. 'has gradients. I'll check it out at home. . .

pierre

[mk162]

And your work reflects it!  OOOHHH!  Just kidding!

aghhhhh....sorry i was so late responding to this...my internet was turned off and I was waiting for it to finish wee-ooo-wee-oooing at me.

[royster13]

Most  folks seem to have no problem paying "premium" prices for your equipment so why not for your software?.....The cost of Adobe products for me is "rounding error" in the scheme of things (Way way under 1% of my annual sales).....If I avoid "pissing off" just 1 client a year, I probably make my money back.....So I do not own it......I pay monthly for many things I will never own....Not a big deal....So long as I can make money it is no big deal.....

[brandon]

Whatever happened to GIMP? I believe it only ran on Linux though. I think Evo on here used it awhile back. Anybody else ever used it? I am just curious. Not switching over

[dirkdiggler]

my artist used it and told me it does everything photoshop does.  but we aint switching.

[ebscreen]

GIMP is a little less than user friendly to say the least. They have a Windows port.

Unfortunately Adobe has gone the way of the monopoly as they ARE the industry standard, for many industries.
Through the years of using their products the quality and usability has gone way the eff down hill.
Ridiculous bugs that never get dealt with, etc. Hell, I only install back versions of effing Reader for crying out loud.
And don't even get me started on PDF forms.

Basically, I would have a heck of a lot more support for them going the subscription route IF they had a heck of a lot
more support for their products.

[Gilligan]

Agreed!!

There is also Inkscape (I think that's it) which is the open source version of Illustrator.  I can barely use Illustrator so I certainly have never tried Inkscape.

[Frog]

Set the Way-Back machine to our early days here at TSB. Last post contains a link to some instructions.

http://www.theshirtboard.com/index.php/topic,267.0.html

[3Deep]

I'm being dumb here but you do need the the internet to use CC right? so what if your net goes down or something no artwork, atleast if you have the program out right you can use anytime you please even if the electric goes out you can still work on your laptop if needed.
More pros & cons to CC or any other program you have to depend on some one else Hmmm.

Darryl

[blue moon]

I'm being dumb here but you do need the the internet to use CC right? so what if your net goes down or something no artwork, atleast if you have the program out right you can use anytime you please even if the electric goes out you can still work on your laptop if needed.
More pros & cons to CC or any other program you have to depend on some one else Hmmm.

Darryl

Darryl,

we covered this before. You only need to connect once in six months if you are on a long term contract.

pierre

[Frog]

It sounds like more than "Cloud Based", it's now going to be Download only.

[3Deep]

Ok I missed that, so I'm like Frog down load base so every six months it times out? and you just renew like I do my antivirus software, but you still pay monthly. I still like the idea of having a cd or jump drive with the program on it.

[dirkdiggler]

Go to Adobe site, there is a video on their site called 5 myths of CC.  Pretty much explains EVERYTHING!

[ZooCity]

Is anyone running CC currently?

My install of CS4 on my main mac pro workstation has officially shat itself.  Dang near drove me insane before I confirmed that it's just buggy, both illy and PS- preferences like saved workspaces changing, constantly repopulating swatches, removing my character and PMS coated palettes, re-opening layers when they were closed on save, pasting objects just wherever the hell it wants rather than on the selected layer, the occasional total loss of saved work when working in multi-channel mode (even in time machine copies) and on and on and on.  Wasting a lot of time each day I keep using the suite as it is. 

I know we pretty much all have to go to CC and I don't really have a choice so if anyone has a few tips on moving over I'd love to hear 'em.