Adobe's Death
Still digging into my plethora of Dark Ride shots from my past trip to WDW *smile*. May is here and I am hoping nicer evening light is too. *bigger smile*
BTW, this is from 'The Great Movie' ride at Disney's Hollywood Studios. In real life this scene is almost totally DARK! ;-) Yep, the 'Lord of Darkness' strikes again. (I am referring to my camera with the Lord of Darkness reference *wink*)
**You may wonder about the title to this post...This week Adobe announced that they will no longer sell 'boxed stand alone CS products'. ALL of their CS products will be up on their "CLOUD" and be sold for a monthly subscription.
I don't know about you, but I do not like cloud computing for one major reason...I am TIRED of monthly subscriptions for EVERYTHING!
I am in my late 40's and I think about my future, which means my retirement future. I am hoping that when I decide to leave Dominion that I can turn towards my photography to supplement some income. But even if I don't do that I still plan on having photography as a reason to get up every day, a nice hobby. So I plan on making sure just prior to my retirement time that I upgrade my equipment, including software, one last time while I can afford it. But as of Adobe's announcement, I may be on my last upgrade since I bought a Nikon D800 a couple of months ago and own a Nikon D3S and I am not planning on an upgrade for (hopefully) 5-10 years. I am sure inside of the next 10-14 years there will be some major improvements with digital cameras that will leave me wanting the latest when the time comes, but if I have to "go backwards" with software then would it be wise to buy a newer camera?? So this leaves me wondering who will fill the void left by Adobe if I decide to but "one last camera" and want stand alone software that I don't have to pay for on a monthly basis. Augh! Too much to digest!
One good thing (at least right now) is that Adobe will continue to make Lightroom a stand alone product. So I guess I will be focusing my attention on REALLY learning the Lightroom interface and getting as comfortable with it as I am with ACR/CS5 until they decide to make Lightroom a cloud based product too, in which case I will say good-bye to Adobe.
If you want to read more about the whole Adobe issue I would suggest Thom Hogan
Thanks!
Adobe's Death
Still digging into my plethora of Dark Ride shots from my past trip to WDW *smile*. May is here and I am hoping nicer evening light is too. *bigger smile*
BTW, this is from 'The Great Movie' ride at Disney's Hollywood Studios. In real life this scene is almost totally DARK! ;-) Yep, the 'Lord of Darkness' strikes again. (I am referring to my camera with the Lord of Darkness reference *wink*)
**You may wonder about the title to this post...This week Adobe announced that they will no longer sell 'boxed stand alone CS products'. ALL of their CS products will be up on their "CLOUD" and be sold for a monthly subscription.
I don't know about you, but I do not like cloud computing for one major reason...I am TIRED of monthly subscriptions for EVERYTHING!
I am in my late 40's and I think about my future, which means my retirement future. I am hoping that when I decide to leave Dominion that I can turn towards my photography to supplement some income. But even if I don't do that I still plan on having photography as a reason to get up every day, a nice hobby. So I plan on making sure just prior to my retirement time that I upgrade my equipment, including software, one last time while I can afford it. But as of Adobe's announcement, I may be on my last upgrade since I bought a Nikon D800 a couple of months ago and own a Nikon D3S and I am not planning on an upgrade for (hopefully) 5-10 years. I am sure inside of the next 10-14 years there will be some major improvements with digital cameras that will leave me wanting the latest when the time comes, but if I have to "go backwards" with software then would it be wise to buy a newer camera?? So this leaves me wondering who will fill the void left by Adobe if I decide to but "one last camera" and want stand alone software that I don't have to pay for on a monthly basis. Augh! Too much to digest!
One good thing (at least right now) is that Adobe will continue to make Lightroom a stand alone product. So I guess I will be focusing my attention on REALLY learning the Lightroom interface and getting as comfortable with it as I am with ACR/CS5 until they decide to make Lightroom a cloud based product too, in which case I will say good-bye to Adobe.
If you want to read more about the whole Adobe issue I would suggest Thom Hogan
Thanks!