Why I’m not an Early Adopter – Adobe CC
I’ve had a Creative Cloud (CC) subscription to CS6 since it came out in 2012. I really like the subscription model, I get my money’s worth from it every single month so I have no qualms about paying the monthly rate, especially if it means they are able to give more regular updates to the tools we use.
However, I don’t plan to jump on the update when it comes out this evening. I’ll probably download it this week but I will continue using my existing CS6 version of the software until I finish all current projects at least.
Early adopting is risky, updating your software when it’s working smoothly should always be done with caution. Developers change things and we don’t necessarily know the full scope of those changes until people try it. That’s why I will often wait a week to read any horror stories then consider updating, sometimes I’ll just wait until version X.0.1 is out to be sure I won’t become a victim of some bug that slips through beta.
Is this overly-cautious? Maybe, but when your financial stability relies on your software to work as you expect it to, it’s better to be cautious and well-informed then to chase the latest craze. That week of waiting isn’t going to ruin my career, but having a project file get corrupted or the filter on my sequence changing effect could cause delays that reflect poorly on me. My client isn’t going to praise my use of the latest tools, they are just going to be mad if anything goes wrong. And since I know that one such issue does exist, I don’t want to be the one to find other issues while under a deadline.
Better safe then sorry is a good policy when upgrading software on any device you use for your livelihood.
That being said, Adobe has taken several measures to make upgrading as painless and safe as possible.
You can actually run CS6 and CC side by side on your system without issue according to Adobe and installing CC won’t uninstall CS6 if you already have it. So feel free to download and explore, but I highly recommend finishing out all your current work on CS6 before moving over to CC for new projects.
Some CC apps actually include exporting back CS6 so you can feel a little safer venturing into unknown territory if you can’t resist.
Another perk is all previous versions of CC (and CS6) are archived by Adobe and available for download for all CC subscribers, so if at some point an update breaks your plugin or something and you need to use it, the previous versions of the app are available to you quickly and easily.
I look forward to diving into CC and I’ll probably do some tests of new features later this week, but I don’t plan on it being my primary set-up right away.
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