{"id":35397,"date":"2025-09-15T19:19:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T23:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/?p=35397"},"modified":"2025-09-15T20:50:01","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T00:50:01","slug":"photo-inflation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/2025\/09\/photo-inflation\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo Inflation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, Adobe Photoshop, it has been “nice knowing you.” In less carefully-couched words, our relationship is over.\u00a0 (You were always a mixed blessing).\u00a0 This year, Adobe raised the price of their Photoshop-only subscription from $9.99 to $14.99 (for existing subscribers) and $19.99 for new subscribers.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

I was somehow blind to Adobe’s price hike until I saw a $14.99 charge on my credit card and said “whaa?”\u00a0 (Truth be told, I probably said nothing and just scrunched my eyebrows, but “whaa” was exactly what my eyebrows would have said if they could talk.)<\/p>\r\n

For some reason, I thought I could restore my $9.99\/month rate, and so I cancelled my existing subscription and signed up again.\u00a0 Nope!\u00a0 It’s now $19.99\/month!\u00a0 Aren’t you sorry you cancelled us now, said Adobe with a sneer<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n

The bottom line is, my Adobe Photoshop experience is over.\u00a0 I have a 15-year-old copy of Photoshop CS5 (one of the last software packages one could own<\/em> rather than subscribe to) which I can use to open my PSD files if all else fails.\u00a0 Meanwhile, I’m eyeing a one-time purchase of Affinity Photo<\/a> to sustain me, and this blog, for the duration.<\/p>\r\n

For your enjoyment, here’s a non-Adobe-processed image — a chart of Adobe’s stock price over the past year, which reflects the December 2024 announcement of their price hike<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n

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Well, Adobe Photoshop, it has been “nice knowing you.” In less carefully-couched words, our relationship is over.\u00a0 (You were always a mixed blessing).\u00a0 This year, Adobe raised the price of their Photoshop-only subscription from $9.99 to $14.99 (for existing subscribers) … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creativity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35397"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35421,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35397\/revisions\/35421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}