8/5/2023 0 Comments Legacy aldus photostyler![]() ![]() Then you could upgrade that to the next version that came along. That was how I ended up with a legitimate copy of Photoshop for so many years. Then I discovered things like inline SVG graphics and imageMagick. If you are working on the web then there are so much better creative tools to be working with than the desktop publishing applications of the 1990's. You may be right, however, there certainly was an upgrade path from the scanner edition. This may have been when '4' or '5' ('n') came along, if you owned any version of n-1 then you got the £150 upgrade price rather than the full £450 sticker price as it was back then. So you could get a £100 scanner that was in itself 'reduced' from say £200, with that you could get your nobbled version of Photoshop for free, plus some SCSI card that was 'free'. Then paying a mere £150 to get full and improved Photoshop was not a difficult purchase decision.Īfter getting lured in by the cheap scanner I was on-board, paying for all the upgrades until I discovered that command line image processing was much more fun.Īt the time there were lots of these pricing anomalies, e.g. ways to get full MS Office starting out with some student edition. I even managed to upgrade Visio from a version provided free on a magazine, before Microsoft bought it.įunny to think how 'clever' I thought I was back then getting 'bargain' software. > Adobe (accidentally?) released CS2 for free to everyone Odder still is that I now use Microsoft's VS Code with vim keybindings running on Ubuntu totally for free. My theory is that Adobe lost the ability to generate licenses - those product activating serial numbers - for old versions of software, so they just made it all free. How could they lose the ability to create licenses? I can think of many scenarios: The one server that ran the legacy license code crashed, and they had no backups. ![]() Or they lost the database of who had which product and serial number, so there was no way to verify anything when someone needed to reactivite an old product or move their license to a different system. It even brought user manuals-I can't even remember the last time that happened.Or there was a new bug or incompatibility in their license generator, perhaps due to a server upgrade, but the source code for the licensing software was lost so there was no way to rebuild it.īy the way, they released a lot of products for free, not just Photoshop (see userbinator's link above), and most of them still run just fine on Windows up to Windows 7. By the way, I only bought PhotoShop 6 because I couldn't pass up the deal, which was the entire Adobe Web Collection software package (PhotoShop, Illustrator, Go Live and LiveMotion) for $286 via an academic discount. Sure, I now own PhotoShop 6 in addition to PhotoShop Elements, but I haven't found any great difference (in basic use) between the two to warrant the extreme price difference. In comparison, I bought Microsoft PhotoDraw 2000 (Version 2) a little over a year ago for $99, and while it incorporates a great deal of functionality coupled with ease of use, it lacks multiprocessor capability and it's supposed "PhotoShop plugin functionality" has never worked for me (which was the main reason I went out and bought PhotoShop Elements). ![]() However, Adobe PhotoShop Elements is an absolute bargain (I bought my copy for $79-before sending in the $20 upgrade rebate) for one simple fact: It utilizes multiple processors! No other consumer-level program seems to be able to match that single capability. In my humble opinion, Adobe has gained a-deservedly-bad reputation because of their horrible price gouging strategy.
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