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Originally Posted by benb
A lot of the jobs where you use the Adobe Software day to day to make a business run are difficult to make a living at. They are all basically creative semi-technical yet artistic fields where big business has done a really good job making lots of money while pushing all the people who build the content as far down as they can.
That is a background thing that simmers below all this. If you get really really into some area of it as a hobbyist or start contemplating selling your work, etc.. you start running into all this.
Adobe makes lots of money, lots of photographers do not. The grumbling is all about that balance of whether Adobe is helping them run the business or not, and what's a good use of time.
You're going to hate it if you work as a contractor in some media business and they expect you to bring your own computer to work and have your own license for the software.
You're going to hate it if you are an independent photographer that bills for sessions/work and you're up all night in the software and you feel like you could be doing something else with that time that was more productive.
If you have a great paying day job that makes 4-5x what a lot of the people in these fields make and you're just dabbling in small # of photos it just all seems fun and you don't really worry about the costs or get annoyed at the software.
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THIS ^^^^^^^^^^^
And its not something that you can fault Adobe for. It is their job to make money. It does leave a bad taste in your mouth. This coming from someone who owned 2 paid seats beginning with version 1 through the Creative Suite beginnings. It was a miracle when it came out, but as the industry progressed it turned into a poorman's way of making a living. As in the old saying "Photography - a rich man's hobby and a poor man's way of making a living."