Adobe Creative Cloud for $9.99/month?

[alex]

I've grown to love the flexibility that Photoshop gives me. I don't enjoy using Lightroom - I only use it when I have a specific need for it. I find it cumbersome and counter-intuitive most of the time. That's why I go from DPP straight to Photoshop for most of my best shots. If I didn't have Photoshop, I'm sure I'd dive into LR and learn its ins and outs thoroughly. But that hasn't been the case.

So considering that, I pay $9.99/mo for Photoshop CC. And while I didn't like the idea of renting software (at first), I've come to thoroughly appreciate the value I get with CC; it's the same feeling I get with Netflix (which I use every day).

Darnit Sean, why do you have to go and make such good sense? Now it's back to being complicated.

Here's the thing: I use PSE so rarely, that I can't even remember how to do basic things like adding borders and watermarks and dodging and burning, let alone the more complicated stuff. PSE has NEVER made intuitive sense to me. I feel like not only would I have to take a class to learn it, but I would have to use it at least a few times a week to remember how to do stuff in the long term. And I just don't have that kind of time with a full-time job and three little boys. I barely have time to convert my photos in DPP to JPEGs so my wife can have access to them.

The whole reason I even started looking at LR5 is because I've seen some videos of the very simple adjustments you can make using it that can give you really great results. It seems like it is more versatile than DPP. Plus it has the whole organizer side of it, which I would really need.

Is that true, that LR5 can do what DPP does but better? Or at least with more tools? Because if that's the case, I think I should go ahead with LR5.

I have the feeling that since I've never gotten the hang of using PSE, the full Photoshop CC would be a complete waste on me. Not to mention very frustrating.

Thoughts?

Alex

[clemmb]

These software companies are coming up with more ways to reach into our pockets again and again. You buy the software and in a few years its obsolete. Will not run on windows ver-next. In place of that they now have it for $10/month. This sounds like a great deal till they start going up on the monthly cost.
If I understand it correctly for $9.99/month you get PS & LR? If so its a great deal but I am sure they will eventually go up.
At some point I may get fed up and move to GIMP. Hard to beat free.