:b_drool:  still trying to buy it. and Silo, and M6.

if Santa is reading this, i also would like a kitchenaide mixer and a k-cup cawffee maker, and a fridge that has the cold water spout in the door.

How is Santa going to get the fridge down your chimny? LOL

help from reindeer and elf majick? 

Adobe is opening up their $9.99/month offer to everyone.  They're pitching it as a Black Friday deal, offer good until Dec. 2.  I won't link it, since it probably counts as linking to another store, but there's info everywhere if you Google it.

For $9.99/month (one year contract required), you get Photoshop CC, Lightroom 5, 20GB of online storage, a Behance ProSite, access to Creative Cloud Learn’s training resources and ongoing upgrades and updates.

I'm tempted, but hesitant.  I already bought the upgrade to Lightroom 5, and am not really interested in the rest, so if I buy, it will just be for the new version of Photoshop.  Is it worth it?

I'm also kind of ticked at the Cloud-only thing.  Though I am a happy subscriber to E-on's "Maintenance Plan" for Vue upgrades.  But Adobe is different. One, you don't know what Adobe will charge in the future; they might jack up the price, and there's nothing you can do about it.  At least if that happens with E-on, I can quit the maintenance plan and still have access to the software I've paid for.  I just won't get further updates.

i don't understand why anyone would want to keep their creative work on an internet pc.

 between viruses, malware, spyware, and sneaky updates; unless you have a full time firewall marshal in your employee, lol

I not only have all my computers connected to the Internet, I don't run any anti-virus software. And I use a cloud service for backup.

I do have a firewall.  I also use WinPatrol, and I don't use IE or Outlook.  I've been on the net now for two decades, and haven't had a problem.  You just have to be reasonably careful.  

It's not being connected to the net that's making me hesitate.  (You don't have to be connected to the net to use Adobe cloud software, BTW - at least, not all the time.)  It's what's going to happen when the year is up.  Will they jack up the price, and if so, will I find it hard to go back to my old version of Photoshop?

I'm also not sure I want to encourage this software rental thing, by giving them money for it.  Even if it's less than I would have paid to buy Photoshop.

I have CS4 and I don't see any reason to upgrade it as it does everything I need. 

I don't like the cloud, and won't buy into it unless/until I absolutely have to. 

I only have one PC, and it's all I can do/afford to keep this one updated with reasonably decent hardware to do what I need. I've never had problems with viruses or malware and I've been on the net since the mid 90s. I have had hard drives crash so I try to keep everything backed up to externals and dvds. 

I got an e-mail ad from Smith-Micro the other day that's rather disturbing, first mention of the cloud I've seen from them. I really hope that isn't a foreshadow to poser going to the cloud. If it is, then they'll be losing me as a customer. But I suspect at some point it eventually will. 

I prefer workstations to laptops and PDAs are just a joke. I want full control over my software and hardware, and the cloud doesn't allow for that. I have a 22" LCD monitor and even this screen isn't big enough for me. If I could afford it I'd have a wall-sized display, or a network of displays covering one wall, but as it is, I just have to deal with what I've got and build onto my "studio" as I can afford it. 

~Shane