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  • Adobe has announced pricing changes to its Creative Cloud subscriptions that will take effect from the middle of next month.
  • It cited “continued innovation” as a reason to overhaul the pricing for its creative software suite.
  • The changes only affect users in the US, Canada, and Mexico for now.
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[-] [email protected] 44 points 1 week ago

It won't stop until creatives stop paying.

There are alternative tools available, but the number of people I have seen not want to learn a new UI is high. Adobe knows this, so they continue to raise prices.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

I mean it's not just not wanting to learn a new UI. It's that a company uses Adobe as it's standard so if you don't have experience with it they won't hire you. And if you try to come in using a different tool they're just gonna end up forcing you to use Adobe.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

How many users are actually working in a company that uses Adobe? Aren't most users just casual, or even if they make money of art, working solo? (So, no need to conforme to an industry standard)

I might be totally wrong tho

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I wouldn't be surprised if at this point with the prices they charge, most of Adobe's users are either working somewhere that has it, or are students who want to work professionally with it, or are people in between jobs who need to keep up skills in it for when they can go back to work. Most anyone I talk to who isn't doing things professionally and doesn't plan to go professional will use something like Gimp instead of Photoshop if cost is an issue.

Outside of this though there's also just the fact that it being the industry standard does tend to cause non-professionals to use it too. Whether it be because they view it as better then the alternatives, or they want to get experience in case they ever want to use it professionally, or they just haven't heard of anything else and the tutorials they were able to find for what they wanted to do used Adobe products.

Either way though I bet that the majority of the money Adobe makes is from companies buying tons of pro licenses rather than from individual people using it.

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