Digital BW, The Print

With regard to file compatibility: It is my understanding that Adobe is going to continue to issue Lightroom for direct purchase. Wouldn't successive Lightroom iterations need to continue to read .psd files through time, so that you could always access your files? Also couldn't you save your files as layered .tiff files or .dng files to continue to access them through a retained version of CS6 (or CS5) or successive versions of LR?

I am on the fence with regard to a CC subscription. I typically upgrade several months after Adobe issues PS upgrades, so that is about $200 every two years (of course if I wait one more year the annual cost drops to $67 and the difference greatly increases, possibly one reason why Adobe is going this route). At $10 per month that costs me $240 over the same two years, not a huge increase, but at the same time I enjoy having the choice of whether or not to upgrade and can continue to use my current version of CS6 as long as I want to. I really don't like to be tethered to a continuing cost, but at the same time, I believe I could probably fall back to LR or my current version of PS. In the short term, the key issue is whether PSCC is offering me anything I really can't do without and whether, if I don't subscribe by December, the cost will increase even more.

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