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It’s one reason why Lightroom and Photoshop are subscription products, and it differentiates the single fee and subscription versions of ON1 Photo RAW.

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This becomes significant if you want to use software that includes cloud storage and sync features. Remember that subscriptions include all updates and upgrades.

On1 photo raw vs photoshop license#

It might take years, not months, for monthly subscription payments to overhaul your one-off license payments, if it happens at all. When you factor in software upgrades, this will delay the ‘payback time’ previously discussed. Every year, maybe every couple of years (if you are prepared to skip upgrades), you will need to pay at least half of that initial license fee all over again, just to keep up with the latest version. This means that your one-off license fee will almost certainly not be a one-off.

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Capture One, for example, is $299 for the full license, $159 for the upgrade (again, at the time of writing). Upgrade fees vary, but typically they will be around half the full license price or a little more. It’s likely that you’ll want to upgrade to the next version when it comes along, and that means paying an upgrade fee. That’s actually not the case, because every software version declines in usefulness as it gets older. The simplistic view is that with regular single fee licenses you pay once and that’s it, forever. More on this shortly…Īnyhow, it looks like it’s pretty straightforward to calculate the payback time, right? Well, no, because there is another very significant factor – software updates. Except that this is not a direct comparison because the ON1 Photo RAW subscription includes 200GB of cloud storage. The payback time for this is just a little over 12 months. That costs £99.99 as a single fee or $7.99 a month on subscription. We could try it with a different example – ON1 Photo RAW. It doesn’t take complex maths to reveal that you will reach the single fee amount after subscribing for 15-16 months, or a little over a year. If you get a subscription, it will cost you $19 per month (at the time of writing – this is just an example). If you want to buy a license, it will cost you $299.

Let’s take a different example – Capture One – which is available either for a single license fee or with a subscription. Photoshop and Lightroom are probably a bad example here because the purchase cost of Photoshop was so huge. No, not time for revenge, but the time taken for the cost of a subscription to catch up with and then overhaul the cost of a single license payment. You get the same software but for a massively reduced initial cost – and I mean massive. Now, the initial cost is $9.99/£9.98 per month to subscribe to the Adobe Photography Plan.

On1 photo raw vs photoshop cracked#

Sorry, Adobe, but no wonder people used to share cracked copies of Photoshop. Together, they had a combined initial purchase cost somewhere around £700.

Photoshop was a monster purchase, however, and somewhere around the £550-600 mark. Lightroom wasn’t so bad at around £120 (please excuse the British currency – the $USD figures were probably a little higher back then, but not much). I remember when Photoshop and Lightroom were only available on a perpetual one-off license. That’s two different sets of reasons.īut anyhow, let’s just spell out the differences between these two means of payment for software, see how the numbers stack up and check to see if they really are as different as they seem.

Generally, those who object to subscription software do so on principle while those who embrace it do it out of practicality. It’s a topic that divides opinion to this day. You may a much lower amount each month, or year, but you can only use the software as long as you keep paying. The ‘old’ way of buying software is to pay a single one-off license fee and then use it for as long as you like. Why should we think software is different? Photo by freestocks on Unsplash

Do you have a Netflix subscription? You can’t buy a perpetual license to watch Netflix and you will never ‘own’ it.