Adobe releases Creative Cloud Express for smartphones, web browsers and Windows – Computer – News

Precisely because it has been developed for a long time, it is difficult to defend that you have to continue to pay € 720 year after year for a suite that you as a graphic designer have already paid several times (first purchase and via ‘updates’) before it became a subscription. .

It is almost impossible to work around adobe in the graphic industry, for example, because you are bound to receive stuff in adobe formats, so as a company you almost have to participate.

For example, if you want to use Illustrator, it costs € 24 per month. It doesn’t matter if you use it for an hour or 8 hours per working day. Doesn’t matter if you use one function or 200.

Illustrator and Photoshop are the main building blocks, so almost everyone uses at least those two. Photoshop also costs € 24 per month so it is better to take the whole package (that is even necessary) of € 60 per month, because then you also have InDesign with which you can work out multi-page documents more easily, with psd and illustrator files in it .

In short, € 720 per year. Once you bought the entire suite for that money and then you could use it for as long as you wanted. Well, that stopped in practice because you wanted to update your OS and it was no longer compatible, but you could put that off for years, until your Mac was replaced once, for example. Not anymore.

A bright spot is that all kinds of alternatives are becoming increasingly serious, such as Affinity Designer instead of Illustrator and Affinity Photo instead of Photoshop. In some respects they are perhaps better than the Adobe apps. And much cheaper / one-time purchases anyway. Adobe already sees that mood coming, which is why it is coming up with such an Express version, because all kinds of users need a ‘light’ version that works via the cloud.

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