I hate adobe

As far as Capture One goes, they may not outright cancel perpetual licensing but they've taken steps to try to force users into a subscription. In five years, the price of upgrading has doubled! They've also established a penalty for anyone that decides to skip a yearly upgrade. Capture One also eliminated educational discounts for perpetual licenses so students either rent or buy a new license every year which is actually less expensive than a full-price upgrade.

The bottom line is that anyone looking to Capture One to rescue them from the tyranny that is Adobe's rental scheme might want to re-think their strategy.

Thank you for the cost of upgrades on C This is not publicly mentioned on their website. I have for now cancelled my Adobe subscription due to renew for 1 year in mid-January , but the purchase price of C1 20 is quite a deal-breaker right now.

No thanks I do not see Capture One forcing people into subscription. I just upgraded from C1 V12 to V20, both at a substantial discount. Remember, making an extra copy of a software is virtually free of cost. Andy's post is really great, avoids polemics and touches the kernel issue here, that for agencies the subscription is a pittance, and to millions of people renting is giving the illusion of affordability.

Think of a car leasing in this context. How many people drive that Mercedes or BMW on a lease contract? Either way, the financial results give Adobe surely a justification for their course. Precisely my point. In fact on well-calibrated equipment and when using good profiles google for RNI film profiles it beats C1 hands down, it just renders better colors. And it is pretty fast in its latest versions. I dont personally use it, and i try to avoid paying subs on anything a personal goal of mine was to have the least amount of money possible leaving my bank each month but its definitely good software, and the market leader.

I think the "who does color better" argument is quite subjective because IMO and many others C1 does color way better than lightroom and others think lightroom handles color better than anything else out there.

Does C1 function better than LR? In my uses across 4 different computers C1 is functions vastly better than LR in the sense that C1 doesn't crash or slow down to a babies crawl like LR does after 15 images.

I'm sure it works fine for you but in my experience it's been nothing but trouble. LR's merge functions are legit though. They work really well. Some people like tomatoes home grown acidic awesomeness yumm and some hate tomatoes. Some people like LR color and some like C1 color.

People use what looks good to their eye. This is exactly what I'm experiencing. LR crashing regularly or becoming unusabely slow after editing a few images not even 15! But indeed, what I'm most "scared" of by leaving LR, is the ability to merge so easily and painlessly to HDR not that I do "HDR" photos, but sometimes it's nice to merge 2 differently exposed images to increase the dynamic range, and LR does this so nicely without giving this awful HDR look that was so hype a few years ago.

Yep yep. I have no idea why it slows down so much so fast. I have tried everything from optimizing catalogs to removing them entirely and just keeping one catalog linked up to LR at a time. When I try to use any sliders after about the 14th or 15th images it lags sooooo bad and I can never get it to go exactly where I want the sliders to go.

If I tap the arrow keys it takes a full second to two seconds for the slider to move. To me that is completely unacceptable. I don't like smack talking LR but when there are problems like this I'm going to say something about it.

I just want it to work. I don't want to have to over haul my workflow and learn a new program because Adobe won't work on making sure their software is stable to use.

That said I really do like the LR merge functions a lot. It has helped me with real estate photography so many times. It's incredible the amount of editing leeway you get. The only thing that "worked" for me was uninstalling all Adobe programs from my computer, and reinstalling everything. Well, I say it "worked", because it was smooth as butter for 3 days, before it turned back to slow and painful like before, and not allowing a full edit session without restarting the program countless times.

I tried using light room today and it will not stop crashing. Every single time I try to import photos it crashes. I'm reinstalling it right now so hopefully this will fix light room long enough for me to get my job done. Deleted User : this sounds like you're working with a PC!?!? I have owned three macs and they were all incredibly slow. There were some things I didn't like about the OS too but i chalk that up to me growing up on windows and just being used to how windows works and the control it gives me.

I love apples screens and track pads. I am how ever super disappointed in the lowered quality of their consumer products lately. Macs have sped up with the advent of SSD's though so that's super nice. I also don't like the thermal throttling mac laptops do to keep the CPU from melting due to inadequate cooling because "it's gotta be thinner".

This makes that super nice i7 processor almost useless because you can't run it at its full speeds. I like that the mac OS is an OS that literally anyone can pick up start using right away with out having to worry too much about installing things before you can even use the computer. You have a pretty decent browser right off the bat with a whole suite of stock software that you actually want to use.

Windows is waaaay behind when it comes to that. I stick with windows because at least for now it gives me the most control over my computer and doesn't penalize me for using my computer how I want to use it. Apple used to be great. There are things I like about mac and even more things I don't so stick with windows. I'm trying not to bash people that use macs these days because i understand people just use what they prefer and each platform is better at doing certain things, but I admit that sometimes it's reeeeaaal tough not to lol.

I hear the same complaints about Adobe and don't even try to give a reason they do this or you'll be accused of either working for Adobe or owning their stock the latter I wish I did. But as it was stated, it's easy to pick on Adobe and other giants like Apple and Microsoft and others. Some people tend to think that they should just pay one price, one time and get all the updates and bug fixes etc. As I've pointed out, we use the subscription model for other things too, like Internet, Mobile phone service, Cloud storage etc, so not sure why people hate on Adobe for it.

Not true anymore, but never the less, people still complain. But hey, what would life be if we didn't have anything to complain about? A studio is ONLY interested in your drawing and animation abilities. Software can be taught in a week to a new skilled animator. But the opposite is impossible. It takes years to become a good 2d animator with solid drawing and animation skills.

You really need to get that in your head! Even on Macs Adobe makes shit software. It was so clear that every piece of software in the Creative Suite was made by a different team with different style guidelines. Uh yes, of course that sucks. But there's nothing that can be done about that. Actually if you're a freelance designer, you could probably get away with using Affinity software. People who work in the industry just don't care, so they'll pay whatever it takes to get Adobe stuff or pay money for licencing fonts.

In the mean time, I suggest you download either CS6 or some other version of CC which can be cracked. Member since: May. Member Level 01 Art Lover. Member since: Dec. Supporter Level 14 Artist. Supporter Level 16 Game Developer. Member since: Oct. Supporter Level 34 Artist. If it seems intimidating there are plenty of tutorials on YouTube. Member since: Jun.

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Yeah, I wish I could ditch them but I need them to do my job. Well that sucks. I know but since I want to work in the industry I have to use them but my Adobe products are all pirated so I don't need to waste money on that stupid company but still I have to pay one day cuz you can't use pirated programs forever Understandable.

Member Level 08 Blank Slate. As far as i know Toon Boom is an industry standar of animation. Supporter Level 19 Artist. Is there a way to shrink it without shrinking my regular home page. I am not a wizard on the computer, as you can tell. I really appreciate your help. If you open a document, is it also oversized relative to what the claimed zoom level is? In some cases, scaling problems can be caused by Compatibility options, so usually it is best to avoid using any of them.

If that isn't the problem, you might need to ask on Adobe's forums. Perhaps there is a settings file somewhere you can remove so it behaves more like the original installation pre-DC. Hi jscher, Do you happen to have Windows 7? So far everything you have written has worked. The only thing I did was freeze up my zoom control button on the tool bar. I have to close out the windows because the page on about the adobe plug ins does not fit my screen and I can close it.

And I need to take a break and walk my dog and visit the library for murder mysteries. Thank you for all you help. Adobe is forcing everyone to go to their cloud service.

They intend to force everyone to pay them for services you had in your old programs. Hewlett Packard is trying to force customers into using their "ink subscription services", with monthly charges.

The dream is that YOU will pay these companies a set fee every month or every year. Of course it will cost the consumer more in the long run, but you will have no choice because they will have YOUR data and you will never again own their software or their machines.

You will be a perpetual renter. I do not want to be a part of Cloud. Once the info is out there, it it is too late to get it back.

Cloud is well known for that. If I want to save something I will use a disc or flash drive. Wrong color. And when I opened it up other things were added that I did not need nor did I want. Just like Windows 7. After using Vista for 8 years, I was not ready for all the new changes.