![]() You will also have invested lots of time (and maybe money on training courses/books etc) in learning that solution and learning something else is equally costly. I know the Adobe ‘.PS’ (and ‘.DNG’) file format is supported by other vendors but just opening up a file in someone else’s tools is only a small part of the problem. In the wider world of cloud computing the holy grail is that of open standards and open source whereby you can (in theory at least) freely move your data, and to a lesser extent the way you manage and manipulate that data, between different cloud providers because they all operate to the same data formats and processes. Sadly in photography the idea of open standards is largely missing. You go ‘all in’ with a companies cloud software and then find after a year or so they hike up their price and because you are fully invested in it you either have to pay huge amounts to move or (hopefully) slightly lesser amounts to stay. With regard to point two, one of the issues any of us face when we commit to a vendors cloud applications, which effectively means you rent rather than buy the software, is so called ‘vendor lock-in’. It will be even more interesting of course to see if these price rises are reversed should exchange rates move in the other direction (maybe when the UK and US forge a new trade deal). Adobe is also in line with other US tech companies like Apple and Microsoft for raising prices here in the UK. Obviously this fluctuates and it will be interesting to see what happens when the UK invokes Article 50 and starts the formal process of leaving the EU. On point one it seems it is only the UK (and Sweden) that have been hit by Adobe’s price rise and indeed the pound has fallen 19% against the dollar since the UK voted to leave the EU in June of 2016. Is there a better/cheaper alternative and is it worth the effort to move?.Is this the thin end of the wedge and now Adobe has me hooked into their cloud subscription model does it mean we will continue to see regular, above inflation (in the UK at least) subscription increases?.Is this increase really all down to currency fluctuations?.This represents an increase of some 18% and whilst £120 per year for these two products, including all updates, is still reasonable it does raise a few questions not least of which are: for for Lightroom and Photoshop) was to increase to £120.64 per year from 17th January 2018 (as I subscribe yearly) due to “recent changes in exchange rates in your region”. Like many people in the UK last week I received this email from Adobe informing me that my Adobe Creative Cloud Photography plan (i.e.
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