At this moment in time. Remember "LR perpetual will always be available" - Tom Hogarty Product Manager LR.? PSCS6?
The above is relevant to what I wrote OT about 'Classic' in another thread.. So please forgive if it's a little bit out of context. But I gots to vent in a more appropriate thread for venting.
(ETA: Many linefeeds are just refusing to go through for me on this site.)
"Sooo... Given [a current ongoing problem with AMD GPU acceleration], as well as the change to pure RansomWare, on top of the indicative/predictive(?) 'hard to find anything about Classic on Adobe's website' issue -- I'm kinda out while I consider on whether to switch to something that's not going to be RansomWare. Adobe
****ABSOLUTELY NEEDS**** to offer an option to keep a current snapshot if deciding/needing to stop paying the ransom.. One where the edit and map modules still work, of course - say, after having subscribed for such and such a time period.. I'm sure someone smarter than me could figure out the details. Only then, will people feel a bit more confident in sticking with Adobe at this point. I'm currently on CC, but
I think it's thoroughly despicable how they've reneged on their 'promise' of keeping a perpetual version - that was always a safety net for me until now.The biggest reasons why I wouldn't switch to something like C1 [right now] is the horrendous catalog speed, no scene-referred HDR and panorama [DNG], no map module, and lousy support for DNG. There are many others, of course, but those are probably the biggest for me - as being on the serious amateur/hobbyist side. There's also ON1 raw and ACDSee, but there are similar issues with those. It's tough deciding, when all one's past images are already edited in the Adobe non-destructive engine instructions - of course the same could be said if I was using one of the others.
<sigh> They really
NEED to make it possible to keep a current snapshot if they're going to switch to pure unadulterated RansomWare.. Again, with
ALL the working features of a perpetual version.
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