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Thanks for a great article!  I have used Photoshop almost since it first came out, courtesy of the company I worked for.  I remember when Adobe sent out the first “survey” to ask users for their opinion about going to a subscription basis.  I strongly objected then, not realizing that Adobe had already made up their mind to change.  It was a well-planned migration to fa ull subscription basis that followed the “frog in the pot” model.  And now the pot is boiling and, hopefully, we all jumped out in time.  I still have an old copy of Adobe Acrobat XI Pro which I can install from the Adobe site–still, after all these years.  How much longer will that work?

I, also, have installed and use Paint Shop Pro.  It does have a bit of a learning curve, but it covers my needs, oftern if ways Photoshop and Lightroom didn’t.  I have also found several free or inepensive alternatives to Acrobat so my need for Adobe is becoming less and less.  As time goes on, I expect that there will be even more alternatives without the subscripton burden required for using Adobe products.

Thanks Will for stirring the pot for all of us!!

Alan Christie, retired computer hobbiest

 

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