Adobe has pretty much taken the price issue away for photographers who only want LR and Photoshop. So that pretty much leaves the lock-in issue. If I subscribe for 6 years but allow my subscription to lapse, how much of problem of (1) inaccessible or (2) uneditable files will I have for DNG's in LR or PSD's in Photoshop? If there are problems, how do I protect myself? By making flat TIFF's of everying I've edited? I'd like to see some focused discussion of the lock-in issue and workarounds. (For extra credit, from someone who's scanning 100-year-old family pictures this morning, I'd like to see some discussion also of how to maximize that people will be able to access my pictures long after I and Adobe are gone).
Bill Iverson
--- In digitalblackandwhitetheprint@yahoogroups.com, <CDTobie@...> wrote:
Lightroom is not included in CC and can still be bought separately and will continue to be. However the rest of the Suite is contained in CC. I am not happy about this as a small photographic business we only use PS and LR and none of the other packages and were quite happy to upgrade when we wanted to. I shall stick with CS6 as long as I can. Since we are not upgrading our cameras and have no need to we can still use the Raw converters that Adobe has provided. Hopefuly until we do change to newer cameras we will be ok.
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