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Adobe Cuts Perpetual License for Elements from Lifetime down to just three years (petapixel.com)

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Among the most significant changes with this year’s Elements releases has little to do with new features but instead concerns the ways users purchase and own the software. While prior versions of Photoshop and Premiere Elements have been lifetime licenses — the user buys the software and then owns it indefinitely — this year’s release has moved to a three-year license term.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I fucking hate Adobe so much. Their software has been in a nose dive for years now. I still have to use it for work at the moment, but I'm slowly seeing signs that alternatives are picking up enough adoption to finally ditch them.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 week ago (3 children)

The new license comes in this really cute collar! To activate it. Simply lock the collar on the user's neck and bam! You got 3 years of free Adobe Acrobat and Elements!

Do not take the collar off. It is secured by Battle Royale Inc. it will remove the user's neck area separating the top part from the bottom part. It's a very strict but effective license option!

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Fuckingcapitalists

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Commies will never pay for Adobe

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 week ago

Pricing seems to be the same as the previous version. They could have at least charged a little less for the much shorter licenses.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I recently moved to Affinity Photo, so far so good.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Affinity got bought up by Canva. It’s only a matter of time that it will get enshittified. They are already giving non-profit and education subscribers free access to Affinity. Bet they will phase out perpetual licensing in the future.

Next time just pirate it. The Affinity people already got their fat cheque.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Nah, I'm happy to pay to own software I use but I refuse to rent it like Abobe wants.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I use Krita for photo editing, it's open source and it's free!

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