stunsworth Posted April 23, 2012 Share #1 Posted April 23, 2012 Advertisement (gone after registration) £207 for the upgrade in the UK. Details here for upgrade... Adobe Photoshop CS6, Upgrade Version from Photoshop CS2/CS3/CS4 (Mac): Amazon.co.uk: Software and here for full product... Adobe Photoshop CS6 (Mac): Amazon.co.uk: Software Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted April 23, 2012 Posted April 23, 2012 Hi stunsworth, Take a look here Adobe Photoshop CS6 to be released on 7th of May. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
andybarton Posted April 23, 2012 Share #2 Posted April 23, 2012 That's starting to get a bit daft. Killer new feature worth two hundred quid? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
delander † Posted April 23, 2012 Share #3 Posted April 23, 2012 From Adobe UK the upgrade from CS5 appears to be £190.80 if you buy LR4 at the same time you get 30% of the LR4 price. Jeff Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andybarton Posted April 23, 2012 Share #4 Posted April 23, 2012 Lots of people will already have LR4. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andybarton Posted April 23, 2012 Share #5 Posted April 23, 2012 According to Amazon, that's the upgrade price from CS2 onwards, excluding CS5 I wonder what the Adobe site says. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe S Posted April 23, 2012 Share #6 Posted April 23, 2012 If you purchase Photoshop CS5 now Adobe will give a free upgrade to CS6 when it's available. The upgrade currently costs $199. Staples office supply curently has a 20% off coupon on all software in the store which results in a $160 upgrade to CS6. This might be the best deal for awhile. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
delander † Posted April 23, 2012 Share #7 Posted April 23, 2012 Advertisement (gone after registration) According to Amazon, that's the upgrade price from CS2 onwards, excluding CS5 I wonder what the Adobe site says. The Adobe price is the same from CS2 to CS5, but the CS2-4 upgrades can only be used before the end of 2012. I dont yet have LR4, stayed with LR3 at the moment. Adobe is very clever, do I need PSCS6 or can I just upgrade LR? Jeff Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andybarton Posted April 23, 2012 Share #8 Posted April 23, 2012 You can upgrade to LR4 now if you wish. You don't need PSCS6 UK pricing from £190 upgrade, inc VAT. Still $50 more than in the US, as is Adobe's usual business model over here. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim-St Posted April 23, 2012 Share #9 Posted April 23, 2012 That's starting to get a bit daft. Killer new feature worth two hundred quid? That would be the Adaptive Wide Angle thingy, I suppose. I thought it looked interesting at first sight, but really it's just an extension of the Lens Correction filter. It's another, destructive, PS "filter", and it leads you into the hit & miss territory of the "Content-Aware Fill" routine. Well, some folks may need that, sometimes, I suppose. I bought PS7, CS, CS2, CS3 and CS5. But since LR3 I haven't used PS+Noiseware for noise reduction, and I think with LR4 I'm not going to have any further use for the HDR that I didn't use very often anyway. And soft-proofing too is now available in LR4, so that's a big step forward in my print workflow. Nowadays more and more pixel-editing seems like something from the last century, when digital images came via scanners, we had no raw files to tweak, and no raw-tweakers to tweak them in. Now I have raw files - and lots and lots of them - I'm ready to just work on those that look like they're good enough to work with in a raw processor like LR4's Develop module, and leave the rest by the wayside. Of course, I'm not a news or sports pro, and this is all just me, doing landscapes and townscapes and stuff. But my uses for PS now are reduced to Photomerge and the text tool, neither of which have changed since CS2. So CS6 is not a contender for my wallet, and as long as I can run CS5 on the same machine I run LR on, I'll live with it. And I doubt I'll want to enter the rental market Adobe is proposing, either. But that's just me... Jim Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wda Posted April 24, 2012 Share #10 Posted April 24, 2012 The Adobe price is the same from CS2 to CS5, but the CS2-4 upgrades can only be used before the end of 2012. I dont yet have LR4, stayed with LR3 at the moment. Adobe is very clever, do I need PSCS6 or can I just upgrade LR? Jeff Jeff, it depends how deeply you are into Photoshop processing. I have found that LR increasingly reduces my dependence on CS4 (I missed upgrading to CS5). I find that CS4 gives me all I need when I want the use of layers. It will have to be a very tempting upgrade before I jump! LR4 is a very versatile programme and will only get better with time. Remember that Photoshop was initially designed with graphics designers in mind. That is why so many tools seem irrelevant to photographers. Lightroom is different. It was designed with photographers as the target pool of clients and optimised for their needs. I am still learning and mastering techniques introduced in earlier versions, finding that they have been refined and extended with each upgrade. One other point; LR is unique in that it is non-destructive. It is easy to assume Photoshop is as well; easy to forget. In LR you can always retrace your processing steps in the History panel, and create virtual copies for any variants of your choice. If you use the Library function in LR, you will find it rather better than struggling with Bridge/Photoshop. DAM (Digital Asset Management), increasingly, is a highly valuable asset to me. I hope that helps you. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted April 24, 2012 Share #11 Posted April 24, 2012 The only new features I really like are the contextual fill in on moving an object, which is an amazing achievement and the tilt shift blur feature. However, I am far from sure these enhancements are worth £190 as an upgrade from CS5. I think I might just forgo this upgrade, unless I can get my daughter to buy me a student/teacher version but even that is not cheap at $249. In a way I rather hope that Adobe fall on their face with this greedy pricing. It makes LR4 look good value and Aperture positively cheap. At £667.20 for the full version, it will not be long before the pirates are offering bootleg versions, at least for Windows. Adobe should not be surprised. Wilson Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
delander † Posted April 24, 2012 Share #12 Posted April 24, 2012 Hi David, If Adobe had not tightened up their upgrade policy for Photoshop so that in future I will need Photoshop CS6 to upgrade to CS7 I would not be contemplating upgrading from CS5 at this moment. I've been very happy doing alternate upgrades. I really do wish that there was an alternative to Photoshop. Although manipulation in Photoshop is destructive the effects are greatly minimized using 16bit tifs, and Photoshop does some elementary things that are not yet in Lightroom and perhaps never will be as Adobe continue make sure that some of us at least need both products. Jeff Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
delander † Posted April 24, 2012 Share #13 Posted April 24, 2012 The only new features I really like are the contextual fill in on moving an object, which is an amazing achievement and the tilt shift blur feature. However, I am far from sure these enhancements are worth £190 as an upgrade from CS5. I think I might just forgo this upgrade, unless I can get my daughter to buy me a student/teacher version but even that is not cheap at $249. In a way I rather hope that Adobe fall on their face with this greedy pricing. It makes LR4 look good value and Aperture positively cheap. At £667.20 for the full version, it will not be long before the pirates are offering bootleg versions, at least for Windows. Adobe should not be surprised. Wilson I too hope that Adobe suffer a reduction in PS revenue, but it is probably in vain. One could skip 3 or 4 versions of PS and just buy the full product again, but you can bet that by then the price of the full product will have escalated somewhat. Jeff Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted April 24, 2012 Share #14 Posted April 24, 2012 I too hope that Adobe suffer a reduction in PS revenue, but it is probably in vain. One could skip 3 or 4 versions of PS and just buy the full product again, but you can bet that by then the price of the full product will have escalated somewhat. Jeff Jeff, I am sure that Adobe have done their Excel spreadsheet and solved for maximum revenue on it. I just hope they have got it wrong and will like Aperture, have to cut the price. About 9 months ago I went to buy a set of updated maps for the GPS in my car. I apparently needed a firmware upgrade to run the new maps at £180 for the DVD and then the new map DVD at a further £425. I asked the dealer how many he had sold. Well actually in round numbers - none. If the manufacturer had set the price at around £200 for the combined discs, they might have sold lots. As the money to write the FW upgrade and update the maps has already been spent, just like the coding work for CS6 has already been done, what you need is volume sales. If say Adobe sell 1M upgrades at a revenue tax free price of $200, then that is $200m revenue. If however they priced at $100, they might sell 4M upgrades which is $400m revenue. I am not at all convinced they have got their pricing right, just from reading the reaction on this thread, there was not a single poster who said they would buy the upgrade, let alone the full version. Wilson PS I bought a GPS DVD updater from a UK company, which cost me £39.95 and worked perfectly. It incorporated the FW update on the map disc. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted April 24, 2012 Share #15 Posted April 24, 2012 On a separate note, has anyone else had the issue that when you try and edit an iPhoto image and ask it to open Photoshop CS6 and load the image automatically, CS6 hangs. If CS6 is already open, it all works just fine. I wonder if it is a memory issue as I only have 4GB of the 8GB I can install in my MBP 13". Wilson Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sanyasi Posted April 25, 2012 Share #16 Posted April 25, 2012 m curious whether anyone has figured out this cloud subscription that Adobe is offering. In the U.S., for $50 a month, you can subscribe to Photoshop, get periodic updates, and store your files in a cloud that Adobe is maintaining. I looked through a rather lengthy FAQ for storage limitations, but found nothing. If it is unlimited, it could potentially be a good place to back up files offsite. I don't think they are thinking RAW photo files, but could be interesting. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
250swb Posted April 25, 2012 Share #17 Posted April 25, 2012 Killer new feature worth two hundred quid? If the sneak previews of the new ACR are anything to go by it will give the M8 or M9 another couple of stops of dynamic range at both ends of the histogram. So, cheaper than an M10 perhaps? Steve Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted April 25, 2012 Share #18 Posted April 25, 2012 If the sneak previews of the new ACR are anything to go by it will give the M8 or M9 another couple of stops of dynamic range at both ends of the histogram. So, cheaper than an M10 perhaps? Steve Steve, Does not LR4 use the same engine at a much lower price point? I am hoping that Capture One which I use, will learn the lessons and follow suit. Wilson Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andybarton Posted April 25, 2012 Share #19 Posted April 25, 2012 If the sneak previews of the new ACR are anything to go by it will give the M8 or M9 another couple of stops of dynamic range at both ends of the histogram. So, cheaper than an M10 perhaps? Steve Using neither an M8 or M9, I wouldn't know Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
250swb Posted April 25, 2012 Share #20 Posted April 25, 2012 Wilson, it is a lower price point if you already use Lightroom, otherwise the upgrade to CS6 from CS5 keeps all your datum points and adds a few more tricks. I have never understood the allure of Lightroom. Coming from a 'wet' darkroom background Photoshop makes me feel right at home, less a churning of images, more a contemplation of images. Most of it's functions are never used in general post processing, but what you are left is still a vast armoury. But I did buy Photoshop many years ago, so the 'new' price isn't of any consequence, and the upgrade is affordable when it comes every eighteen months. It's like having your darkroom redecorated on a regular basis and with new equipment. Steve Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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