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jsousa · May 30, 2006, 04:25 PM

SO I called adobe today to try to move my license from Windows to Mac OSX. The sales rep (the division that handels cross platform) said that I would have to upgrade from CS to CS2. Well I am not so sure about this as he could just be hunting for more commision.

Any ideas? is this guy trying to rip me off? I already email Adobe, but I expect that to take a couple days if not several.

Horsepoo!!! · May 30, 2006, 05:53 PM

Originally Posted by jdrumstik

SO I called adobe today to try to move my license from Windows to Mac OSX. The sales rep (the division that handels cross platform) said that I would have to upgrade from CS to CS2. Well I am not so sure about this as he could just be hunting for more commision.

Any ideas? is this guy trying to rip me off? I already email Adobe, but I expect that to take a couple days if not several.

Adobe will try to rip you off at any chance they get.

jsousa · May 31, 2006, 10:34 PM

I kind of feel the same way.

However, does anyone know Adobe's official policy on this?

jsousa · Jun 5, 2006, 03:55 PM

Bump

Does Anyone actually know this?

ChrisF · Jun 5, 2006, 04:15 PM

Didn't an answer direct from Adobe give you Adobe's official stance?

jsousa · Jun 7, 2006, 12:27 AM

Adobe still hasn't written me back. I think that I will simply buy a copy of Apertature in the future, and use GIMP. Considering Adobe is one of the seemingly less ethical companies after this expierence.

ChrisF · Jun 7, 2006, 07:02 AM

Originally Posted by jdrumstik

Adobe still hasn't written me back.

But you did speak to Adobe on the phone, correct?

Big Mac · Jun 7, 2006, 07:07 AM

Truthfully, GiMP is no replacement for Photoshop.

rickey939 · Jun 7, 2006, 07:17 AM

I seem to recall that CS2 does indeed have the Transfer Activation option built-in if needed, whereas, CS does not. With that said, I see no reason why Adobe couldn't manually make this work for you though.

jsousa · Jun 7, 2006, 06:23 PM

I did speak with Adobe, but the department that handels cross platform is sales. So ofcourse I have a hard time trusting the sales persons word that I have to upgrade to CS2 (Which adds hardly any usefull features).

they still haven't e-mailed me back. Maybe my email just by random chance got overlooked.

I've been playing around with GIMP, by no means is it nearly as good as Adobes stuff, but i think I can get by with it. After all I am dual booting windows, but i just figured i should have photoshop on my MAC OSX install. Even if rossetta will slow it down.

- - e r i k - - · Jun 7, 2006, 10:49 PM

CS2 is a great upgrade if you are into photography at all.

- - e r i k - - · Jun 7, 2006, 10:52 PM

If you want to use Gimp, have a look at Gimpshop which emulates Photoshops menu layout and shortcuts. There is also another alternative out called Pixel, which supports 16bit, CMYK and HDR, and has a good responsive developer as far as I can tell.

http://www.kanzelsberger.com/pixel/

Salty · Jun 8, 2006, 12:49 AM

Dude you paid for the license. It's not as if there aren't ways to cross grade without the hassle. Like... are you in a shop or something or just you being a person? As well are you using a PPC Mac or an Intel one? I'd at least wait for CS3 before I shelled out money for the suite again, it's going to be out in about half a year, and it'll actually run well on the Intel hardware!