Paint Shop Pro Humble Bundle

[Straf]

For the next week or so. It might be of interest to someone:

https://www.humblebundle.com/softwar...ith-confidence

[ChickPea]

That's a nice deal. Thanks for sharing, Straf.

[Straf]

It's pretty decent isn't it? I grabbed the whole package. I'll have a bit of a play around with it in the coming months.

[Jaxilon]

ewww boy, I'm tempted - Is that really Corel Painter they are selling there?

Also, I'm guessing they are an annual fee to stay current - Is it the full 429.00 every year?

I've been thinking about dropping my Adobe subscription because it's kind of ridiculous and I used Corel Painter last year on a demo for one of my maps and quite liked it.

[Tiana]

ewww boy, I'm tempted - Is that really Corel Painter they are selling there?

Also, I'm guessing they are an annual fee to stay current - Is it the full 429.00 every year?

I've been thinking about dropping my Adobe subscription because it's kind of ridiculous and I used Corel Painter last year on a demo for one of my maps and quite liked it.

Yes, it's kind of ridiculous.

They make their money because eventually they won't have just Corel Painter 2019, they'll have like, Corel Painter 2025 and it'll have a feature you can't live without and you'll buy a new copy to upgrade. Or you'll go to their marketplace and buy brushes and stock art. The same way programs used to make money before they started putting on the Cabal TV oops I mean Cable TV subscription models instead.

I won't pay a subscription fee for a program. One and done for that version. I respect having it available as I know some people can't muster up multiple hundreds of dollars for a program, or thousands in some cases, and just need it briefly. But then it should be a rental, not a subscription. Subscriptions by their nature exploit people like me, who are a bit forgetful and say, let a gym membership run for a year still being paid because I didn't notice and I'd changed gyms and arugh.

So that's why I won't do subscriptions. I feel like they're exploitative. I don't mind a key rental program where you get a key for a year and after that, you can choose to rent it again. That's not designed to exploit auto-withdrawals and "convenience for you" features.

I need a new video editing program on my Windows machine (I bought one for my Mac about two months before I bought a Windows PC... ARGH) so I might do the $35 CAD bundle since it comes with Painter (I don't need it but it would be fun to tinker with) and a video editor. I basically just want Pinnacle Studio... oh well, it would still be a significant cost reduction and since I'm no longer using Adobe Photoshop it's nice to have options. I got Affinity as one option (a single payment as well). And Clip Studio (single payment) and obviously all these companies are still afloat. Also Krita (free).

So ultimately I think subscriptions are just about long term scraping money out of people and this is a pretty awesome bundle. Thanks for sharing it. I might grab it. I mentioned it to another digital artist friend who might grab it as well (he's looking for good digital watercolor right now).

[OWM]

I won't pay a subscription fee for a program. One and done for that version. I respect having it available as I know some people can't muster up multiple hundreds of dollars for a program, or thousands in some cases, and just need it briefly. But then it should be a rental, not a subscription. Subscriptions by their nature exploit people like me, who are a bit forgetful and say, let a gym membership run for a year still being paid because I didn't notice and I'd changed gyms and arugh.

So that's why I won't do subscriptions. I feel like they're exploitative.

Completely sympathize with that frustration! What's really hard on developers is that nowadays if your program/project is not cloud based/subscription based/copy protected in some way, potential investors will laugh you out of their office - so you have to self fund like we did. And self funding is the hard balance between pushing forward with your project and paying the bills.

So I get why many companies go the subscription route, but I try to go with one time purchase software as much as possible.

- Alejandro

[Larb]

I think it's just a full license for that version of Corel Painter. I haven't picked up the bundle yet - gonna do it next week. But yeah you can get some amazing deals with the humble bundles.

[Jaxilon]

I think it's just a full license for that version of Corel Painter. I haven't picked up the bundle yet - gonna do it next week. But yeah you can get some amazing deals with the humble bundles.

True, but I'm wanting to know about the long term. I mean, obviously they want to make money so I just want to understand how they are getting it. The bundle is the hook I believe, it's next time around where you pay...or so I expect. Thus, my curiosity as to how much it is. I'm sure it's less than PS monthly but it doesn't come with full blown adobe and so on either.

Anyway, just curious. I will likely pick this up as well since I enjoyed using painter for this map.

I'll probably get the bundle then cancel Photoshop. I can always resub.

[DrWho42]

that's a lot to unpack

[Falconius]

Corel still has both models, where you can subscribe to a constantly updated piece of software or buy a license for the current version. This appears to be a really fantastic deal. I think the idea is they get you hooked on the software and hope you branch out into their other offerings and buy updates for it in the future.