Stop complaining about the Creative Cloud!

I’m exhausted from seeing constant complaints about Adobe’s subscription model, and I realize this is a hornet’s nest of a topic. It has been 12 years since the subscription service came out. In those 12 years, I have spent $1,438 with my previous purchases of Photoshop CS4, CS5, and CS6, pulse Lightroom 3, 4, and 5 I spent over $1,550. After 12 years, I am still 11 months ahead of what I spent about 4 years of before the monthly plan. It has also been 12 years! If you don’t like it move on.

Additionally, I recently viewed a video detailing the differences between Photoshop CS4 and the current version of Lightroom. Unfortunately, I didn’t save the link, which has made it challenging to locate the video again. The photographer in the video processed an image in Photoshop CS4 years ago and sold a number of prints. The original edit in Photoshop CS4 took him 10 hours to complete. Nearly the same look took him 10 minutes in the current release of Lightroom. Ten minutes!

Many individuals continue to express concerns, discussing how the “subscription model” would negatively impact Adobe. Yet the numbers talk differently, “but within a year of the launch, customers had grown 244%^[1], resulting in 50% growth in revenue“.

I realize I sound like a “fan-boy” and maybe I am, but I am just tired of seeing the endless whining and complaining about something that is old history. Move on if you don’t like it. For me, I am staying with Photoshop and Lightroom. The advances far outweigh the $9.99 monthly fee.