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#1 ·
...and is going to lose a boatload of customers. What a greedy, wrong-headed move, for so many reasons.

I was planning on updating to CS7 when it came out - I don't always update every time and have been quite happy with CS5.

Not at all happy about this and don't know what I'll do. I use PS, Acrobat, DW and ID, and really don't want to have to spend over $350 a year - and that's only for the first year, after which it goes up to $50 a month! (40% off for the first year, for those of us with anything older than CS6)

Methinks I may buy CS6 and then start looking for alternatives to this highway robbery.

Adobe heralds subscription-only future for Photoshop and Creative Suite: Digital Photography Review

https://creative.adobe.com/plans?plan=offers&promoid=KFHQB/ :mad:
 
#4 ·
Thanks for posting this here Paddy as I don't always check the Masters forum.

But, my God Adobe and thank God I don't have to rely on their products and usage, but from what I read they seemed have asserted once again, but on steroids this time, for their usual: Arrogant Adobe Attitude Again Asinine Approval Authorization Attempt!! :( :(
 
#5 ·
SEEMS VERY HEAVY HANDED BY ADOBE NOT TO GIVE CHOICES ..
At least MS gives choice of boxes or office 360
I hope this burns adobe and they give people choices again.
 
#7 ·
Schools no different
- boxes while supplies last
 
#13 ·
FYI, the folks over at Pixelmator seem quite pleased with Adobe's announcement...

In the past 24 hours, we’ve gotten tons of emails asking, congratulating, and commenting about Big Brother’s new move. So I thought I should write a short note about it. As Pixelmator developers, we were quite (pleasantly) surprised by this move.
I must say our pricing, ownership, and development philosophy are completely different from Big Brother. We focus only on creating the world’s best image editing app. Nothing else. No distractions. Just this to drive us forward: the compulsive curiosity to see what happens after we have the perfect image editing app ready for you.

At the Pixelmator Team we believe that our way is the right way.

In fact, previous Pixelmator updates are the evidence of what I’m saying now. All of them come with a multitude of amazing new features and improvements that are completely free. But what’s even more important is that your feedback is unbelievably great about every single one of them.

We’ll prove ourselves again later on this week. On Thursday, we will storm the Mac App Store with a free Pixelmator 2.2. Blueberry upgrade for all of our existing customers. Don’t be confused by versioning numbers. This isn’t a minor update—it’s a MAJOR UPGRADE—and it’s great one.

Then, as I mentioned sometime ago, we are on track to ship layer styles later this year. We just wanted to complete this awesome Blueberry upgrade.​

(Pixelmator Blog)
 
#14 ·
Just revisited Pixelmator.

Found most of the tools I need. However I had a great deal of difficulty in using the eyedropper to set a text colour. Never did figure it out. Also for the life of me I could find no way to make a minor horizon line adjustment. Could rotate 90 or 180 or flip but no 1 or 2° adjustments.

No complaints about resizing. Did a 1/3rd original dimension (1/9th area) change with non of the problems I have seen with some apps.

The sharpening tools really are a cut above providing easy incremental adjustments. Perfect in my books.

Until layer styles and horizon line adjustments are available this one is still a no buy for me.
 
#15 ·
Just revisited Pixelmator.
Found most of the tools I need. However I had a great deal of difficulty in using the eyedropper to set a text colour. Never did figure it out.
A minor quirk. The problem is that when you switch to the eyedropper *tool*, you take focus away from the text tool. The solution is to be in Text tool mode, and click on the colour square to bring up the colour palette. Then use the magnifying glass (top-left of the palette) to grab a colour from somewhere else on screen.

I have another quibble with the Text tool - I want to be able to click the text tool, draw a box, and start typing... but that doesn't work. You have to click inside the text box to highlight or delete the existing "text" before you can add your own. A minor thing - hopefully will be changed in future updates.

Also for the life of me I could find no way to make a minor horizon line adjustment. Could rotate 90 or 180 or flip but no 1 or 2° adjustments.
It's there, just not where you'd expect - odd that the "Rotate" menu command gives fixed figures, but the incremental rotation is found by doing a Transform (Command-F). Then you can use the mouse or enter specific degrees of rotation in the toolbar.

Until layer styles and horizon line adjustments are available this one is still a no buy for me.
So given my updates above, it looks like all you're waiting for now are layer styles ;)
 
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#19 ·
I like and use Pixelmator every day to create web graphics. That said, an obvious showstopper bug of making shrunken graphics fuzzier is driving me straight up a wall. They've been well aware of this bug for a long time, so if it isn't fixed on Thursday I'm off to buy Acorn 4, which doesn't have that problem.
 
#20 ·
I've not used Pixelmator previously, just downloaded the trial version and I must say that for the price (currently $14.99) I'm impressed!

True, it has it's warts, but I'm hoping that it will become an acceptable alternative to Photoshop ( I'm presently running CS3 - with no intention of upgrading). I remember the first/early versions of Photoshop - amazing new tools but extremely frustrating at times.

Now all we have to do is hope that Microsoft/Adobe/Corel etc etc doesn't buy them out!
 
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