why does photoshop cost a grand?
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I'm not sure where you're located...but at the US Apple Store Photoshop CS5 is selling for $699.95:
Adobe® Photoshop® CS5 - Apple Store (U.S.)
Here it is at MacMall for $660.99:
http://www.macmall.com/p/Adobe-Graphics-Software/product~dpno~8060287~pdp.gaihcbj
And here's the Photoshop CS5 upgrade (if you qualify) for $188.99:
http://www.macmall.com/p/Adobe-Graphics-Software/product~dpno~8060289~pdp.gaihdai
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people are idiots haha
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Would you care to share what currency you're looking at and what version of PS you're looking at? I'll go out on a limb here and say you're using the USD and looking at PS CS 5 Extended which, on the Adobe store, is $999. As to why - well, when your application becomes the standard, you tend to exert a lot of control.
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Or you're just poor?
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Because its a professional tool, not meant for the consumer market!
That's what Photoshop Elements is for.
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I can't foresee paying that kind of money for an app either. But, I'm also not a professional in that field.
I do own machines that do nothing but apply paste to the back of wallpaper and cost between $3,000 and $4,000...
We also use specialized tools that apply joint compound to new sheetrock walls. A company called Ames Tools makes them and you cannot buy them. They only rent them. It costs good money to do so.
Like with any specialized tool, the market pays what it can bear.
Those pasting machines btw, will allow an individual to earn $100 or more in additional income... per day. In the space of 1-2 months it will have paid for itself. Worth every penny of $3k. With a crew of 5 men hanging what would be the equivalent of 500,000 rolls of wallpaper in a new hotel, that machine can pay for itself in as little as 2-3 days vs applying paste by hand. The next 5 years is pure profit off of it.
edit: It is also tools like these that folks invent that helps to keep prices down. As an example, the labor price for installing wallpaper in many areas of the country, is today, within 10-20% of the price I was charging 30-40 years ago. There are the master craftsmen who can demand double and triple that amount, but we're talking less than 5% of the folks in this trade today.
I do own machines that do nothing but apply paste to the back of wallpaper and cost between $3,000 and $4,000...
We also use specialized tools that apply joint compound to new sheetrock walls. A company called Ames Tools makes them and you cannot buy them. They only rent them. It costs good money to do so.
Like with any specialized tool, the market pays what it can bear.
Those pasting machines btw, will allow an individual to earn $100 or more in additional income... per day. In the space of 1-2 months it will have paid for itself. Worth every penny of $3k. With a crew of 5 men hanging what would be the equivalent of 500,000 rolls of wallpaper in a new hotel, that machine can pay for itself in as little as 2-3 days vs applying paste by hand. The next 5 years is pure profit off of it.
edit: It is also tools like these that folks invent that helps to keep prices down. As an example, the labor price for installing wallpaper in many areas of the country, is today, within 10-20% of the price I was charging 30-40 years ago. There are the master craftsmen who can demand double and triple that amount, but we're talking less than 5% of the folks in this trade today.
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There's a machine that applies wallpaper paste?
Every day I'm astounded just what technology can do. My new car parallel parks itself, which is cool, but applying wallpaper paste by machine wow!
Every day I'm astounded just what technology can do. My new car parallel parks itself, which is cool, but applying wallpaper paste by machine wow!
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Photoshop Elements, Gimp, Seashore - there are plenty of low cost and free alternatives. If you don't know why an application is so expensive then you probably don't need that application.
Gimp is very fully featured and does everything an amateur photographer needs and it is free. Photoshop Elements is pretty much everything you need to touch up photos.
Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements comparison
Adobe - Consumer photo and video product comparison
The $999 is for PS CS5 extended - which is for more multi-media - i.e. video and photos. The $699 is for regular PS - for photography.
image editing software, image editing program | Adobe
Gimp is very fully featured and does everything an amateur photographer needs and it is free. Photoshop Elements is pretty much everything you need to touch up photos.
Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements comparison
Adobe - Consumer photo and video product comparison
The $999 is for PS CS5 extended - which is for more multi-media - i.e. video and photos. The $699 is for regular PS - for photography.
image editing software, image editing program | Adobe
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A great alternative to Photoshop for those who don't need to spend that much is Pixelmator:
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Also, adobe make it almost stupid to buy their individual apps
If you are serious about adobe software then buying one of the CS packages like CS5 Web Premium, but if you are a casual home user, the alternatives already mentioned like Pixelmator make much more sense
If you are serious about adobe software then buying one of the CS packages like CS5 Web Premium, but if you are a casual home user, the alternatives already mentioned like Pixelmator make much more sense
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