Adobe's 2014 Creative Cloud strategy revealed

[Digital Photography Now]

Adobe revs up Creative Cloud for 2014 with emphasis on mobile devices



Adobe's new 'Ink' and 'Slide' digital stylus and ruler for Apple iPads.

Adobe has today announced its 2014 strategy for Creative Cloud, its suite of imaging, video document and publishing tools that, until last year, you could purchase outright as the Adobe Creative Suite. Adobe has revealed some interesting evolutionary improvements and additions to many old desktop favourites but clearly the emphasis is on serving what Adobe sees is a massive increase in the demand for increasingly powerful tools for use on mobile devices.

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[Ian]

Re: Adobe's 2014 Creative Cloud strategy revealed

Do you use Adobe Creative Cloud - what's your view? Is the controversy over CC now just a thing of the past and would you be tempted by the Ink and Slide iPad accessory hardware?

Ian

[Daveart]

Re: Adobe's 2014 Creative Cloud strategy revealed

I for one am not going to get into Cloud based software, and pay for ever more and be at the software companies whim if the cloud stalls or fails, or you are not in a position to get internet access you are stumped.

Dave

[Ian]

Re: Adobe's 2014 Creative Cloud strategy revealed

I for one am not going to get into Cloud based software, and pay for ever more and be at the software companies whim if the cloud stalls or fails, or you are not in a position to get internet access you are stumped.

Dave

The software installed on your computer does not need an active internet connection to work - it only needs to check your subscription status every 30 days. Some smart device app functionality does require an internet connection (more advanced functions where some processor grunt is required will use cloud-based CPU time).

Ian

[StephenL]

Re: Adobe's 2014 Creative Cloud strategy revealed

I use CC to obtain the latest Lightroom and Photoshop. I don't use any of the other functions, and I'm not interested in using it on my iPad.

[OlyPaul]

Re: Adobe's 2014 Creative Cloud strategy revealed

Do you use Adobe Creative Cloud - what's your view? Is the controversy over CC now just a thing of the past and would you be tempted by the Ink and Slide iPad accessory hardware?

Ian

Ian I am sure for the working Pro's and companies it is fine, but for me it is not going to happen.

l I suspect that LR5 will eventually go cloud subscription only, especially if it takes off as Adobe hope.

And for me that is the reason I do not use my paid for LR5 as my main Dam program or raw converter now.

Why... well if you use LR as it is meant to be used then there should be no reason to have to export to another file format except for the web or sending as a jpeg to the printers.

Now lets suppose you use LR like that and that at some point everything Adobe is subscription only and there are no stand alone Adobe products and one day in the future you can no longer afford it, then all your hard catologing work and Raw edits in LR will be lost to you unless you have already converted them into another file format.

Now if I have to do that and make other file format copies and not use LR as it is meant to be to prevent myself becoming a prisoner of Adobe Cloud what is the point of using it and entrusting it as my Dam program instead of using a separate Dam and Raw converter as I do now, to me my LR5 is just that..a raw converter.

Just because I'm old and paranoid does not mean they are not out to get me.

[Ross the fiddler]

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I didn't install LR & I now have even less reason to do so. Maybe I will pay for a Pro version of Capture One instead (seeing as I have to pay for an update to process Stylus 1 & E-M1 raw files in the express version).