You can sign up for PSCC for $9.99 a month and not install LRCC if you don't want to. I've used it like that for several months. You will get a whole list of programs that you can try or install but you don't have to do any of them.
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On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 7:58 PM, Kip Babington <cbabing3@...> wrote:
Thanks, Jimbo. For grins, I went to the Adobe site and started a chat on this. The story I got was that if I want to rent PS only, without the LR component, it would be $19.99/month. If I want the $9.99 rate, I have to rent LR too.Maybe they didn’t understand my question. I think the mechanical one is, can I take the PS/LR rental package and just NOT install the rental version of LR, and prevent the rental program from automatically updating LR? (Which I gather is the whole point of the program - you’re continually up to date with the latest versions - so I assume its set up to do automatic updates as the default.)Cheers,KipOn Nov 22, 2013, at 12:46, jimbo <mrjimbo@wispwest.net> wrote:Kip,Presently LR is / was not intended to be a cloud offering. They did it as a peacemaker to Photographers who already had CS3 or above..I already had LR 5 so didn't really need it.. So I didn't have to down load it.. if you bump to 5.2 or 5.3 your still fine as long as you have a license ..the software will not crap out on you.. If you got it as part of the CC package and do not have a license for vers 5 and discontinue cloud you'll loose it unless you purchase a license.. Anyway presently they have just tossed LR in the package .. but you can keep it as part of the cloud thing or have your own license..jimbo----- Original Message -----From: Kip BabingtonSent: Friday, November 22, 2013 11:32 AMSubject: Re: [Digital BW] Photoshop Create Cloud program for photographersI stopped using PS when they went to the CS - I have no use for any of the other pieces, and couldn’t justify the cost of keeping up the whole suite just to get the PS bit. So I generally managed to get along with PS7, and have switched much of my basic editing now to Lightroom, which gets more capable with each iteration. I picked up Elements recently, which has been getting some of the “magic” capabilities of PS, and now use it on the occasions when I need more pixel-level power than LR offers.But I am seriously considering the $10/month plan for PS only. Even more magic than Elements, plus the ability to save custom crops and other tools like I used to be able to do in PS7.
Does anybody know if you can choose NOT to implement the rental version of LR if you buy into this program? I own LR5 now, and am (only sightly, but still . . . ) concerned that if I switch to the rental version and down the road decide to discontinue the subscription to PS, I would not be able to buy a standalone version of LR whatever they’re up to at that point. I know they’re selling LR separately at this point, but if in the future they roll it into the rental-only model I’d have to give it all up if I decided to drop renting PS. (I’ve never read a how-to on managing the catalog if you want to go back to an earlier version of LR.)Any thoughts, or better yet, actual experience, on keeping on with a purchased copy of LR if you join the rental program?On Nov 22, 2013, at 6:41, Ernst Dinkla <e.dinkla@...> wrote:Now everybody can join the scheme:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-57613183-92/adobes-photoshop-lightroom-deal-open-to-all-comers/
Looks like subscriber numbers were too low so far.
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