Boris Liberman wrote: > Personally, I don't like the idea of cloud based personal software. I > don't mind if it has to do with communications, but this is different. > Adobe got hacked some time ago. Depending on what kind of personal > information Adobe is storing about their Creative Cloud customers and > what of that information leaked, this may be a show stopper or just > change-password-and-forget kind of nuisance. > > The problem with this service is that it is oriented to countries with > word United in their name - United Europe, United State, United > Kingdom... Israel is not united. When we used to have a single official > Adobe representative company - it was fine. Few years ago Adobe did > something and the official representatives became many and not orderly. > So, these days I am buying my Lightroom by asking my friends in USA to > bring me a box with DVD in it. > > I also don't like the idea of open ended price - you pay every month > until what? > > > As for Lightroom vs Photoshop (side issues aside :-) ) - I don't do > collages or multilayer editing. So Lightroom suits all my needs as far > editing goes. It is also nicely integrated with Google+, Flickr for > publishing on-line. It works reasonably fine with Blurb for producing > books. So all in all - it is a good integrated program. > > I haven't opened Photoshop since like version 8 or so. And I don't need > any need to... > > YMMV of course.
I was very cynical about cloud based software until this thread, and I certainly didn't understand how it worked. Whilst I now have a far better understanding of it, for me, I feel I'm better off buying software in a box with a CD/DVD and knowing the limit of my financial involvement at that point. I also then have no concern about an internet connection being working 100% at any time - for example when it checks your software payments are current. I was almost certain I would need PS, and now I'm not sure I'll even get to a point where I will have a need for it at all. I'm going with LR, and I'm going to buy an upgrade for PSE. I will have many months of learning ahead of me. Should these products be later only available by cloud subscription, I will at least have what was available in 2014 on disc. I can see all these products only being available by monthly subscription at some point; from their point of view it must stop copies and all the production and distribution costs of supplying boxed software. Once again, it has been fascinating reading how list members use software. Malcolm -- 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.
