Adobe Demands 50% More Money - But Not To Worry

[@DigitalPhotoMentor]

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[@edwardbarbieri5283]

Terrific service you’ve provided here, Darlene. Many thanks.

[@DigitalPhotoMentor]

Thanks so much!

[@LEClarke-df3sf]

Thank you so much for the heads up and great explanation of options about Adobe's plan changes. Done.

[@DigitalPhotoMentor]

You're welcome!

[@RonaldBrown59]

I heard about this price hike and quickly switched to the annual plan. Great information, and thanks for sharing it.

[@DigitalPhotoMentor]

Glad it was helpful!

[@unitheorist]

How did you change your payment to annual? It was not offered to me.

[@RonaldBrown59]

@@unitheorist When I attempted to pay, I was offered two payment methods, I chose the yearly plan over the monthly.

[@DigitalPhotoMentor]

@@unitheorist as I said in the video, I had to get on the chat with Adobe support, I had the same issue

[@joan.tarradas]

Thank you so much Darlene for keeping us up to date!!! I'll have to make a decision and there aren't many to do it in batches.

[@DigitalPhotoMentor]

You're welcome

[@kimsegal9723]

Thank you Darlene. In todays world of 'let's see what we can get away with".. online... you are a breath of fresh air. Happy new year from a fellow canadian.

[@DigitalPhotoMentor]

You're welcome! Happy New Year to you too!

[@deborahlaw7752]

Darlene, I had to use an Adobe live Chat agent to change my monthly billed plan to annual. Your video was most helpful. Thank you so much for making this!

[@DigitalPhotoMentor]

You are so welcome!

[@mightymuffinful]

Thanks for the valuable information. It was helpful.

[@DigitalPhotoMentor]

You're welcome!

[@19jgr55]

Thanks Darlene. I was wondering about whether to wait to my renewal date and have not been able to get an answer to that either. So I will take your advise and go on and get it over with.

[@DigitalPhotoMentor]

Yeah seemed like a crap shoot to me

[@janjan467]

Hi Darlene - Long Time, No Speak !!! Following on from this informative video, are you planning to put together instruction on how to use Excire and Luminar Neo together (as an alternative to subscribing to Lightroom/Photoshop) - or have you already done this ?? If so, could you point me to where I might watch it, please. Many thanks and Best Wishes to you both for the New Year !! Kindest regards Jan

[@DigitalPhotoMentor]

Hi! Possibly in the future but right now I'm focused on rebuilding my Luminar course

[@janjan467]

@@DigitalPhotoMentor Thanks Darlene - Life has been a bit hectic for the past few months, but my intention is to go back to basics and revisit your Neo Courses... which I am really looking forward to !! In the meantime, sending my Very Best Wishes... Jan

[@DigitalPhotoMentor]

@@janjan467 No worries, it's always there for you.

[@KathrynLeRoy]

I didn’t have any trouble changing my subscription to annual.

[@DigitalPhotoMentor]

Excellent

[@Alice-gk1zj]

Thanks for the update. I was able to change my plan to the yearly plan for $155/cdn. Because I just made a payment, I received a credit for this month's payment.

[@DigitalPhotoMentor]

excellent

[@KtR1sk]

I changed from a monthly 20GB plan to an annual subscription, will it still be possible to extend next year at this price?

[@DigitalPhotoMentor]

That isn't clear. We'll have to wait and find out

[@unitheorist]

I have the PS plan with monthly payments. So I tried to change it to an annual payment as you suggest, but that option was NOT AVAILABLE! Is this more of Adobe's conniving behavior?

[@DigitalPhotoMentor]

I explained that in the video. I had the same issue. Just open a chat with their support and they can do it for you. Get a real agent not an AI bot. It seems about half the people can do it on their own account and the other half can't. Dunno why

[@darleneperkin9398]

Thanks for the “warning” as I haven’t been notified about the changes. You explained it very clearly so thank you for your detective work. I have the 9.99 US account with 20GB which was just billed to my credit card a couple of days ago. I’m going to switch to the annual rate and lock in the price for a year. I use the feature of having a couple of portfolio websites for my work, another valuable asset in the plan. Do you know if the Portfolio part is still included in the new plan?

[@DigitalPhotoMentor]

Great question. Not sure, you may want to dig into that more to verify

[@DigitalPhotoMentor]

I found it, yes Portfolio is still included www.adobe.com/ca/creativecloud/photography/compare-plans.html

[@darleneperkin9398]

@ Thanks so much. I’ll check it out. It’s a fun way to have up to 5 portfolios for people to check out.

[@tomwojtowicz9567]

I have the original 100GB account at the $9.99 amount that was offered when Adobe first switched to a subscription-based plan. Unfortunately, they don't offer any option to switch to 1 year so I'm not sure if they are phasing us out or grandfathering us in. I guess I better to call in to be sure. Thank you for this clear explanation. I watched Matt Kloskowski try to explain this on an earlier video. He's a great guy, but he managed to get me even more confused by going off on too many side issues. This video was perfect!

[@DigitalPhotoMentor]

I'm glad I could help. You can probably lock in the price but you may not get the 100gb, you'll probably get 20gb.

[@margueritelahaye7457]

Thank you, Darlene. I needed help from an Adobe agent after the Chatbot didn't work, but I managed to lock in to the 20 GB Adobe plan for a year. The annual cost was quoted as $155 Canadian (I'm assuming that doesn't include taxes), so right now I'm waiting to see what appears on my credit card.

[@DigitalPhotoMentor]

Yes that's what I got as well. It's my understanding that it will go up to $21 CAD which is $252/year

[@HappyGrl41]

I can't change my monthly plan to annual, so I guess I will need to speak to someone.

[@DigitalPhotoMentor]

Get on the chat or call them. It seems like about 50% of people can do it online the rest of us have had the same issue

[@lubomirkamensky]

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[@lu-uf8zj]

As a casual photographer I use free software gimp and rawtherapee and pay nothing. We could do with some good tutorials on those though.

[@DigitalPhotoMentor]

Go for it. I can't make tutorials for software I don't use.

[@justingan7800]

[@DigitalPhotoMentor]

Hey! You're on KZbin? Nice

[@justingan7800]

@@DigitalPhotoMentor Yes, it is me😀

[@lesboucher542]

Easy fix.... I cancelled Adobe altogether... It is just greed.

[@DigitalPhotoMentor]

They haven't raised the price in 11 years. So what did you decide to use instead?

[@gscottfuller]

The cost of everything went up 20% during Biden’s administration but Adobe is supposed to freeze their prices forever?! Get real. They have the best photographic software on the planet. You have to pay for good quality.

[@BigRedArrowEqualsTinyPeePee]

@@DigitalPhotoMentor People keep saying that, maybe it's true in the states but it's not in Europe, here's a copy paste from my invoice on 2020: "May 20, 2020 Photography plan (20GB) €10.23" Then it went up to €12.29, now the email I got last week said "The price of the Photography plan (20GB) annual, billed monthly plan is changing from €12.29/month to €18.60/month (including applicable Tax/VAT) on your next renewal date. To maintain your effective current base rate (excluding any promotions) you can change your subscription to an annual, prepaid plan."

[@Hecalledme1]

Thank you Darlene, I have the $9.99 account with 20GB which was just billed to my card a couple of days ago, I changed to yearly, and they gave me a refund for the unused balance. Enjoy a great day.

[@darleneperkin9398]

Do you still have the Portfolio part? I don’t want to lose my ‘websites’.

[@Hecalledme1]

@@darleneperkin9398 I don't have a website but I clicked on web and it showed the photos I was working on in a collection, if that's what you mean. I can look if you tell me where. LRC or PS?

[@Hecalledme1]

@@darleneperkin9398 All my collections and folders are there. I don't have a website, everything looks the same. If you tell me where to look I will.

[@DigitalPhotoMentor]

No portfolio is another Adobe feature it's not inside Lightroom

[@DigitalPhotoMentor]

Excellent glad you got it locked in

[@BarryMaskell]

I cancelled in 2018 because it was becoming expensive - obviously they are haemorrhaging

[@DigitalPhotoMentor]

$10/month is expensive? They haven't raised the monthly price in 11 years either.

[@BlackZEddie]

Sigh. The sensationalism of "50%". It's 5 bucks. smh

[@DigitalPhotoMentor]

But it's still a 50% increase which is significant. Yearly it goes from $120 to $180. That mean more to you?

[@BlackZEddie]

@@DigitalPhotoMentor No. 50% on $50K is significant. 50% on $9.99 is not. I shouldn't have to explain that to you. A title like "Adobe Demands $5 More Money - But Not To Worry", would still be clickbait that you were going for, but, at least some actual and practical truth that it's only 5 bucks.

[@DigitalPhotoMentor]

@@BlackZEddie For you $5 may not be significant but to some people it is. Read the room, all the other commentators are grateful for the information. If it's not a big deal for you then just pay Adoboe the extra $5 every month, in fact, you could give me the same if you have money to throw around. In Canadian currency it's a raise of about $8/month. Is that significant enough to matter? $5 USD is 94 South African Rand, their currency is low value and anything people in South Africa buy is hugely expensive for them. So it might make a difference there. $5 is 289 Philippine pesos. That's a meal for 2 there. So put it in perspective, NOT everyone has the luxury of having $5 be insignificant.

[@BlackZEddie]

@@DigitalPhotoMentor After 11 years of the same price, $5 isn't that much, and, which is literally a moot point because there's an option to keep it at $120 a year. No other company has done that and provides software updates. As a reminder, Photoshop used to cost $600 to $1000 to buy it outright. These days, how many people do you think are going to plunk down that kind of money? What an asinine liberal logic…that if I had $5 to throw around, I should just give it you? That's a pretty childish retort, don't you think? The currency exchange does not matter. No matter what economic country one is at, if they can afford $9.99/mo equivalent, $14.99 isn't that much of a stretch. I'd wager for a lot of the ones complaining about the $5/mo, they'd easily spend at least that much on lattes, cigarettes, junk food, etc, per day, which can easily equate to $150+/mo or $1800+/year.

[@stevericketts7414]

@@BlackZEddie yup, it only increases by 50% for those who choose to get billed monthly. virtually every software company charges more for people paying monthly