Best arguments i totally agree with and have myself. After many, many years of being a full paying enthusiast, they now want open access to my finances because we are all now hostages to greed.

I have exactly the same journey and feel exactly the same way… you are in my humble opinion correct and brilliantly so.

Probably best to read the T&Cs about subscription cancellations carefully, Amy. Re. ‘cancelling out PS6’, I’m pretty sure it won’t, but best to double check with Adobe support.

I agree, it’s confusing and doesn’t make financial sense to get the Single App plan in this instance.

How are you paying $11 more if you get the less expensive option? Makes no sense.

Simply put, Adobe has two low-cost subscription options: the Photography plan, and the Single App plan. However, the Photography plan is $19.99/mo. while the Single Apps are around $21/mo each.

This means that if you try to get Photoshop without Lightroom, you’ll end up paying about $11/mo. more!

Obviously, the best option is just to get Adobe’s Photography plan – even if you only need Photoshop, (or only need Lightroom), it’s the best value option.

I don’t use Photoshop on a regular basis. I’m not finding the answer to a question I have about getting a subscription. If I get a monthly subscription, and use it for 2 months, can I then discontinue the subscription, and then start it back up a few months later for a month? Are there any penalties for doing that? If that’s the case, then it doesn’t sound like a bad deal. I can still use my old version. I’m afraid of getting an actual upgrade and wiping out my old reliable working version forever. I have a backup copy, but it would be my luck that an upgrade would forever prohibit my ever using the old version again in some manner that I could not undo.

I understand a profit needs to be made. But they always seem make it just out of reach for me. But paying just for the months I use it, and have the latest tools, sounds like a good deal. But I’m not sure if I understand it correctly, can you do it one month at a time, or do you have to do a contract.

I also thought it sounded like a marketing release on behalf of Adobe.

I can’t believe bought and paid for PhotoShop 4 years ago and now they disable part of it and want to charge me a subscription to restore it.

I have some jealousy seeing others using PS, but who can justify the cost of a music streaming service that I use every day, for a subscription that I don’t even use every month?

One of the commentors above mentioned the personal contribute he’d made suggesting improvements, testing, etc. If you are inclined to do that, you should find an open source project and spend your energy giving to humanity.

However, as with most human idiocies, greed, power & the complacency that tags along with such blinding self-deprecating arrogance is stunning.

To loyal end users & those who only served to better the bottom line of this company throughout.

If Adobe wanted to protect their golden egg & revenues from such, going overboard certainly was not required, let alone acceptable in any way shape or form.

So many other companies over time made such fundamental short-gain choices, snuffing their own momentum if not severing their existence outright.

Suggestion: Offer your software in as many possible variances as one can to accommodate the end-user variances, instead of this pipe-lined blasphemy-style diatribe, showing absolutely ZERO mutual respect for why we are all here seeking this product still today… versus considering the host of considerable alternatives, seemingly borne of necessity because of simple arrogance.

Smarten up & fast pls, oh mighty Adobe policy creators… you are tailoring to minds that seek solstice in our bounding creative spirits here, not some evil minions ready to eat you if you sit still for too long for crying o9ut loud! Ease it up huge & fast! Thanks in advance,

~ Thanks in advance, A Creative Mind snuffed yet again by more BAD Decision Making Corporate Meetings & Stakeholder’s Uncaring Arrogance!

Touche!

Yes you can.

We were not paying for the upgrades. All I want is software to own. Now I will own Photoshop for free.