November 27, 2011

Are You Current On Your Version Of Adobe Photoshop?

I just read an open letter to Adobe that Scott Kelby has written and posted recently on his blog that may be of interest to any of you who are not working in Adobe Photoshop CS5. Adobe's possible plans for the next update are if you are not in the most current version of Adobe Photoshop, you may be paying the full list price for any upgrades when you want to go to the next version. No more hanging back with an older version of CS2 or CS3 and then saying I get caught up when the next version comes out.... If you don't do this, it might cost more than you planned to upgrade, so you better get upgraded now before it's to late. It's no surprise to me that Adobe needs to do this to keep users current as I constantly see people using versions that are several years old. Scott, who represents over 70,000 professional users as president of NAPP, has asked Adobe to give us more warning on this, but to be safe, you better update to CS5 before the next version makes it way to the public. I have always taught that Photoshop is one software that you don't want to get behind on as all available training on older versions almost completely disappears when the new version comes out. If you want to be working on a older version of Microsoft Office, or an older email program, that's fine, but not when it comes to Photoshop.... So if you don't want a possible higher upgrade cost.... Get upgraded today.... If you snooze on this.... Don't say you weren't told....

3 comments:

MSPhotography said...

Adobe is on drugs. All vendors are lower their price points except them. But for now, I'm recommending to anyone who needs photoshop type of tools to give elements a serious look. You get almost everything you need for 50 dollars right now.. 90 when not on sale. Right now with 85% of my editing done in Lightroom, photoshop is a very expensive luxury that is not required. And I would expect most pros in photography to be in the same camp.

Durga said...

Good point! Will remember that!

hlinton said...

Definitely sounds like a form of extortion when you factor in the issue that CS5 has been known to blow out graphics cards on older Macs [this happened to several friends]. This is the main reason that I won't be upgrading CS5 any time soon and, if it turns out to be a reality on Adobe's part, I doubt I ever will again either.