Need Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator.....

[paulwgraber]

So I am wanting to purchase Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator for my wife as she is a graphic artist. Some people have lead me to CDRB software but not so sure about that.
I am running Catalina so it needs to run on 64bit.

What are my cheapest options. I am not cool with the Adobe CC subscription thing. Can't you just own the software anymore and not have to keep paying? I don't want a subscription service but just want the programs like you used to be able too.

Any help would be great. Thx

 

[chrfr]

So I am wanting to purchase Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator for my wife as she is a graphic artist. Some people have lead me to CDRB software but not so sure about that.
I am running Catalina so it needs to run on 64bit.

What are my cheapest options. I am not cool with the Adobe CC subscription thing. Can't you just own the software anymore and not have to keep paying? I don't want a subscription service but just want the programs like you used to be able too.

Any help would be great. Thx

Adobe only offers these apps as subscriptions. CDRB software is absolutely dealing in piracy.

 

[dwig]

As chrfr correctly said, Ps and Ai are only available as subscriptions.

Your wife needs to do a very detailed review of exactly what she needs to produce. There are alternative apps available, but in all cases there will be some issues if she needs to produce files on which her clients will be doing further edits in the Adobe apps. If she will only need to produce final files for printing or publishing on the web then there are a number of alternative apps that can work well.

While I'm a heavy user of the Adobe CC suite (Lr, Ps, Ai, Id, Dw primarily) in my day job, I've migrated my personal work (mostly photography and a small amount of other web & ebook graphics) to the Affinity apps (Photo, Designer, & Publisher) and I'm quite happy with their abilities and I like that they are affordable and have perpetual licenses, not subscription.

 

[satcomer]

To be as cheap and almost as good look at alternatives! For Photo editing I suggest Pixelmator Pro or Affinity Photo.

Drawing is not my specialty so watch this video:

 

[iDento]

Give Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer a try, not the same thing but I find Affinity apps to be easier to use, updated more frequently and way cheaper.

 

[chrono1081]

So I am wanting to purchase Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator for my wife as she is a graphic artist. Some people have lead me to CDRB software but not so sure about that.
I am running Catalina so it needs to run on 64bit.

What are my cheapest options. I am not cool with the Adobe CC subscription thing. Can't you just own the software anymore and not have to keep paying? I don't want a subscription service but just want the programs like you used to be able too.

Any help would be great. Thx

The software subscriptions are actually cheaper in the long run than buying them outright if you do the math. That being said, I understand not wanting to subscribe to something. I used to be a heavy Photoshop user and also used Illustrator. I was able to replace both with Affinity Designer and Affinity Photo. If you're up to giving those a whirl, I'd highly recommend them. Affinity may still be doing their 50% off sale.

If not subscription is your only legal way to go.