When comparing the two, Photoshop CC and CS6, it’s clear that the CS6 users don’t want to upgrade because of the rental business model Adobe enforces. But, what are the actual advantages, and, is it possible to be more productive and make more money when you deliver more work because it’s easier to do?
Positive Aspects of CC
Selection tools in Photoshop have improved over the past few years. If you’re starting with Photoshop now, you will never know the time spent on comping and masking out a character’s hair to use in a different image. It was dreadful, and with CS6 it’s still the case. There have been a considerable amount of updates over the past few years. And the business model Adobe is exploiting makes it possible to develop updates, use AI and integrate into the whole software bundle within Creative Cloud.
Negative Aspects of Adobe as Kingpin
I don’t like renting software, no one does. And it’s as if Adobe is dominating the industry in Photo-manipulation, video editing, motion graphics and, it makes it possible to work with all these types of media and software together. If there is no competition, we will all be paying our dues to Adobe for the foreseeable future. And it’s not just the single user, it’s companies and industries that will need to change, which is a much more difficult thing to do.