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> What's nice about their subscription model is that there is no sunk cost when giving up. It's $5/month and you just stop paying it.

Don't they try to get you to make a year commitment? I remember spending about 30 minutes with someone at Adobe getting them to cancel it when Lightroom was too slow to use on my Mac at the time (which had been more than fast enough for Aperture). After the second or third time that I told them I wasn't going to buy a new computer just for the privilege of running their software, they agreed not to charge a hefty early termination fee.



Yes, I had to pay a fee equal to 50% of the remaining year contract. I will no longer receive PSDs directly from designers, so the designers must now to export stuff to web spec so I can work with it outside adobe.


I marked my card as damaged, and when it was replaced I refused to give them the new details...


I've done this an number of times to avoid the usual cancellation nightmares.

Be careful though, some card issues will forward the new card details on to (some?) services you have a payment agreement with.


GIMP handles PSD, no?


I've not tried for several years, but it was never that great at doing that. Last time I had to do this, I gave up and bought a photoshop subscription. Has it improved now?


Nope.

Adjustment and FX layers don't translate, as well as some compositing and blending options.


I managed to get out of this by just explaining that I didn't have the money to pay the subscription anymore. They seem pretty sympathetic to that.


That’s probably a better angle




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