It’s yet another example of how in the modern era, you increasingly don’t actually own the things you’ve spent your hard-earned money on.Īdobe this week began sending some users of its Lightroom Classic, Photoshop, Premiere, Animate, and Media Director programs a letter warning them that they were no longer legally authorized to use the software they may have thought they owned.

Of course, there are plenty of other concerns on the table that have yet to be addressed.Adobe is warning some owners of its Creative Cloud software applications that they’re no longer allowed to use older versions of the software.

So, at least some of the concern with files not being accessible after a Creative Cloud subscription ends can be put to rest. However, the layers that used features only available in Photoshop CC could not be edited without causing the Photoshop CC effects to disappear. Layers that consisted of effects available in previous version of Photoshop acted normal and editable. The image looked the same as it did in Photoshop CC.Īs a result, he can still print the image or render it out as a JPEG, TIFF, PNG or some other format. He then saved those files and re-opened them in Photoshop CS5.

However, early reports suggest that files created in Photoshop CC can be opened in older version of Photoshop, including files that have been altered with Photoshop CC-only effects/features.ĭave Cross, who has access to an early version of Photoshop CC took this concern to task and created Photoshop CC files, including Photoshop CC-specific features. One of the major complaints of Adobe’s move to the Creative Cloud has been the fear of losing access to files if and when a user ends their subscription to Creative Cloud.

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