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Adobe – Upgrade Policy Changes
Just to make people aware Adobe have made changes to upgrade paths in their policy. Which aren’t going down well with many users in other forums like photoshop.
I’m a corel user so don’t know the full details.
Just a heads up.
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i heard the rumours, but i need clarification.
the rumour i have heard that they want to go subscription licenses only, so you pay monthly so when you don’t you loose access to the apps.
However on another forum, this was dismissed by adobe support… so i don’t know what is true or not.
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From what I understand you will only be able to upgrade from the previous version so effectively you won’t be able to miss a version so basically to own Adobe products and to continue to do so will cost a fortune.
Fortunately Corel users can still upgrade from virtually any version (not academic) and even cross grade so for any Illustrator users who feel the price is too much there is a viable and cheaper alternative.
Alan D -
Don’t forget, to budget for May the 6th
Order CS5.5 NOW and get CS6 when it is released.
This is the last chance for CS2 users to upgrade or be stuck.
Tbh, for a CS2 user, that is the best deal you are going to get imo.
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It looks like Corel are doing this too. According to their website, upgrade pricing to X6
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For limited time, I think it is 90 days from release you can still upgrade from any other version. (Check on website) so for those with X3 or below thinking about it NOW is the time. Even at full price Corel Draw still offers great value for money when you consider all the stuff that comes in the box from fonts to clipart to Photozoom to web creating software and everything else.
Alan D -
Alan, I don’t use it so can’t really comment but personally I wouldn’t be interested in all the other stuff in the box. I have web design software, more fonts than I know what to do with, decent image enlargement software etc etc.
If I were looking to buy it I would just be looking for the software on it’s own at a reduced price because I didn’t want all the other stuff.Sure all the extras will be useful to some users but I wonder how many people actually use all the extras included with any package.
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Hi Martin, the fonts now include some of the Open Type with extended characters so you can make more use of the updated text engine. Photpaint will sort the photo editing with latest import filters and makes use of 64 bit and multicore and as its included would save an upgrade to a very expensive Photoshop assuming you have it and thats apart from the integration with Draw. Not everybody has Photozoom and I find this significantly better than the normal resampling, bicubic or otherwise found in other software. I won’t use the web software either but thats not to say thousands of others may well. People who are on earlier versions of Draw will appreciate the import filters assuming they take files in from others, if they use multicore machines they should see a speed improvement. You pay your money and take your choice. The upgrade price is not expensive compared with some, how much would you want to pay? I assume the cost of upgrading your software is cheaper 🙂
Alan D -
Alan, don’t really want to go off subject & hijack the thread but I think you have missed my point.
I am in no way criticizing the software, I don’t use it, never have & probably never will.
As I said in the other thread when it comes to software I don’t upgrade as often as most people because I don’t see the need to. The software I use does everything I need it to at a speed I am happy with so I stick with what I know. It’s not just Corel or design software in general for that matter, companies bundle stuff together to make it look more atractive but you never seem to use much of what is included apart from the program you bought the package for lol.I don’t work full time anymore & pretty much everything I do is just cut vinyl now so 64 bit multicore machines aren’t really a necessity. I only upgrade if the software I am using will not do what I want it to.
Price is always a factor but if I was use to using a certain bit of software & the upgrade price was more than the price of buying a new bit of software I would rather pay the extra money for the upgrade than learn a new program from scratch. Oh & as to your last question I couldn’t upgrade my software now if I wanted to, most of it is that old that there is no upgrade price so I would have to start again from scratch. :lol1:
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DONT FORGET
quote Dave Rowland:Don’t forget, to budget for May the 6thOrder CS5.5 NOW and get CS6 when it is released.
This is the last chance for CS2 users to upgrade or be stuck.
Tbh, for a CS2 user, that is the best deal you are going to get imo.
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Why not just wait for CS6?
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If you have CS2 you may not be able to upgrade to CS6 (Pay full price) but you could upgrade to CS5. Either way it will be a load of money as Adobe charge like wounded bulls.
Alan D -
Whilst I agree that Adobe upgrades can be expensive if you upgrade every time, we’ve
just paid £450 to upgrade from CS3 to CS5.5 (with free upgrade to 6). I actually don’t
think that is too bad when you consider what you get. For example, you don’t get an
equivalent for either Acrobat Pro, or InDesign with Corel. You can also just buy a stand
alone upgrade for the software you do use. Illustrator is about £130 to upgrade,
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CS6 details just announced. I have to say, the subscription deal looks pretty good. Think we’ll try it for a month to start with.
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£38.11 +vat fully unlocked per month (until u give it up and loose it)
update: cough VAT is 23%?Dammit, the screwing my mind around now.
Team edition later 2nd quarter, need to know more details of this edition too!
This will change Adobe’s "expensive" look, I think this is an introductory offer possibly for existing users (CS3 and above), i cannot be sure.
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