The most important part of the announcement is the part about not locking people out of their own content. If they deliver on a version that let's you view, print and convert files to other formats that will go along way to ease worries.
gs George Sinos -------------------- www.GeorgesPhotos.net www.GeorgeSinos.com On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 9:37 AM, Stan Halpin <[email protected]> wrote: > Good synopsis Bruce. > Two things I notice in their PR piece. First, they seem to assume that Adobe > users are, or desire to be, part of a world-wide creative community. This > seems to ignore those users who just want to sit quietly and use the tools on > their own, without extensive sharing, collaboration, etc. > Second, it has forever been acknowledged that the Adobe suite of > applications, and even Photoshop, are overkill for most photographers. Adobe > in the past has provided Elements and Lightroom as more targeted applications > for this niche audience. Now they are saying that "...we are looking at > potential offerings that recognize the photography community – because it is > so broad – has some unique needs." I predict a CC-like PS Elements to > replace the current Elements. We'll get all the features of Instagram etc. so > we can better process and share our mobile phone snaps. I can hardly restrain > my excitement. > > stan > > On May 29, 2013, at 9:23 AM, Bruce Walker wrote: > >> Adobe finally issues a brief response to the Creative Cloud backlash. >> http://blogs.adobe.com/creativecloud/our-move-to-creative-cloud-an-update/ >> >> In a nutshell: >> >> "Gosh, a few folks don't like subscription services. Who knew?" >> >> and >> >> "Golly, photographers are weird." >> >> -- >> -bmw > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
