quietrob opened this issue on May 10, 2015 ยท 21 posts
malwat posted Wed, 01 July 2015 at 4:42 AM
I am not a fan of subscription based pricing or cloud availability. So far CS6 works like charm for me. CS2 would be too old for me, now that I am used to CS6.
You and me both. As you get older you realise that subscription-based service is a means for a supplier to fleece you and continually amend the rulels of the game. As for so-called cloud storage, it is madness on more than one count. 1. it works well enough if you have good access to broadband services. six miles from a population centre of 12000 or more I am licky to get 2.4mbs download and 0.4mbs upload, which is not conducive to using the cloud.
Free online services (and even non-free ones) are prone to suddenly changing thins. It is possible to without warning find (as I have family who did) that literally thousands of images have suddenly disappeared because the company closes, or changes its rules.
Online services are hacked. This is not to say that offline, private, ones aren't, but if data theft is the aim, it is probably more productive to hit the big organisations than the 750gb hard drive of Agatha Shuttlebotham in Lesser Wapping in the Wold.
I have found that I can often find myself in situations where there is simply no access to the Internet, and I don't have to be miles off the beaten track. Much of the UK has no mobile phone signals, and even more does not have even 3G, let alone 4G. Yet the industry and government are constantly putting more access and more power and more usability into the hands of the same conurbations where other forms of access to data and communications are rife.
I have not found a good reason to move forward from those Photoshop programs I have been able to buy outright, and frankly, if it becomes necessary to do so, I shall move to much cheaper ones that are not generally less endowed (and do some things far better), such as Photo Plus. It is a pity, because for whatever reason PS(E) is my go-to program, but I don't know for how much longer.
Malwat
Getting younger by the day; getting older by the minute....