Good Bye to Adobe

 Good Bye to Adobe

Suddenly yesterday a legally purchased copy of Adobe Suite CS 6 became illegal which was shocking. Googled to find I was not alone but many whose purchased software copies became illegally purchased. Instead of saying the software had reached its end date.

Tried various attempts to reach out to help center but no where correct guidance was there instead it was like pushing down the throat software on cloud. There has not been so much editing work I did as any commercial shoots I used to guide clients to professional image editors who would be doing maybe better editing in very short time. I did edit far and few to showcase or maybe print.

Having added Fuji Film XT20 and 5D Mark 4 I could not use the raw editing part of CS 6, so I had been using Skylum Luminar softwares work on the RAW files of both of these cameras.  Lucky I had Skylum softwares Luminar 2018 and Luminar 4 that kept me out of the panic mode situation.

I took time off to clear my system from Adobe products. I got more space available after the deletion.

Few minutes back I downloaded Skylum's Aurora HDR to use. It can be used on 5 systems irrespective of Mac or Windows. Very practical thinking. I do not remember if I was using Adobe's HDR creator. Anyways.

Often I used CS 6 to add text when creating leaflets. I had bought me Affinity Suite - AfPhoto, AfDesigner and AfPublisher. Once I thought of creating my leaflet on Adobe CS 6 but since I had not used AfDesigner thought why not give it a try. Wonderful and easy to use. I was trying to create my Coffee Table Book using CS 6 and converting to pdf format, looked complicated in assembly the pages for the book. Tried AfPublisher and found it again pretty simple. I ended up creating four Coffee Table Books in quick time. The pages I created in CS 6 will be deleted to give me more space on the internal storage SSD. More space.

Though it will take a little time to get away from thinking about Adobe but using my Skylum and Affinity softwares it will erase faster.

These two Softwares developers have made really good editing programmes, just hope the Shark named Adobe does not prey on these companies.