{"id":41355,"date":"2025-10-22T09:36:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T16:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/?p=41355"},"modified":"2025-10-22T09:36:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T16:36:21","slug":"adobe-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2025\/10\/22\/adobe-50\/","title":{"rendered":"Adobe +50%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><I>Yes, a 50% price rise!<\/I><\/p>\n<p>The crooks at Adobe are at it again.<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/Adobe screwjob 1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\"><br \/>\n<I>50% price hike.<\/I><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>The rest of the letter goes on in tedious detail about how Adobe is the greatest public benefactor since Social Security and generally claiming sainthood.  It&#8217;s so puke worthy I am not publishing it here.<\/p>\n<p>When I was using my Mac Pro I had &#8216;lifetime&#8217; ownership Lightroom for a single purchase.  When security enhancements &#8211; which Apple refused to apply to that fabulous machine (shock news!) &#8211; ceased to be available I had no option but to upgrade to a modern <a href=https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2024\/11\/12\/mac-mini-m4-part-i\/ target=_blank>Mac Mini M4<\/a>.  Naturally, Adobe saw to it that my Lightroom &#8216;owned&#8217; application ceased working at the same time, forcing me to sign up to their $9.99 monthly subscription. <\/p>\n<p>I passed on Photoshop, buying a lifetime ownership of <a href=https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2024\/11\/26\/affinity-photo-2\/ target=_blank>Affinity<\/a> &#8211; and that looks like it&#8217;s about to adopt a subscription model soon as well.  Affinity does most things Photoshop can, though there&#8217;s a bit of a learning curve involved.<\/p>\n<p>I write &#8216;forcing me&#8217; as I have yet to find an application which competently combines LR&#8217;s excellent processing and cataloging features, but now I will get serious about doing some research of alternatives.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile I have signed up for one year with the crooks at Adobe at the existing $10 monthly rate, and earnestly hope this is the last time I ever pay them:<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/Adobe screwjob 2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/Adobe screwjob 3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\"><\/p>\n<p><I><\/I><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, a 50% price rise! The crooks at Adobe are at it again. 50% price hike. The rest of the letter goes on in tedious detail about how Adobe is the greatest public benefactor since Social Security and generally claiming sainthood. It&#8217;s so puke worthy I am not publishing it here. When I was using &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2025\/10\/22\/adobe-50\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Adobe +50%<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adobe-lightroom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41355"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41357,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41355\/revisions\/41357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}