

My sympathy for your frustration with Photoshop.

That is about what one stop per month at Starbucks will cost you. The cost for Ps, LrC + is still $9.99 per month. You have not quoted the current Photographers package price. Photoshop people, times have changed, time for you to get out of the door way and go with the flow.Powergroove75 Said in part: "Photoshop has an. the first will be last." So it is going for Photo shop and Adobe. "Don't stand in the door way times are a-changin'. If Nobel Prize winner Bob Dylan were ask, he would sing. Your $21/m or $250/Y will buy a wonder of modern AI plugins to attach to even years old editing software. Best subscription-free alternative to Adobe Photoshop." Affinity will cost about $40-$70/lifetime with free updates til major change which in the case of Affinity 2 that was 5 years, compared to Adobe PS about $21 per month continuing or it disappears. The modern editing tools based on modern computer language "Affinity. for them MAGA standing for "Make Adobe Great Again." Adobe and its loyal followers are struggling to change and compete beyond classic "we are the greatest" chant and a world of followers that march in unison as in the in the famous Macintosh 1984 ad. old struggles to change from what old ideas of what worked worked in the past, new new competitive software joyfully improves. GM avoided E-Cars and are now in trouble from upstart Tesla which is years ahead and wallowing in cash while reducing prices and updating quickly in-house.

Too many were using one addition for years to avoid the high cost of upgrading with little return. GM is near it second bankruptcy, to avoid bankruptcy the expensively unaffordable Photoshop in desperation went to the monthly rental basis. GM, Chevrolet "the industry standard" has been around for 100 years Adobe "the industry standard" founded in 1982, 40 years ago.

I hope mine below clarify and help Photoshop addicted people from following Albrecht’s observed law, “Intelligent people, when assembled into an organization, will tend toward collective stupidity.” Powergroove75 Said in part: "Photoshop has and is still the industry standard for professional editing since the mid 90s." Analogies are clarifying or confusing.
