{"id":18205,"date":"2013-06-03T14:16:53","date_gmt":"2013-06-03T21:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/?p=9344"},"modified":"2013-06-03T14:16:53","modified_gmt":"2013-06-03T21:16:53","slug":"a-creative-cloud-success-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/03\/a-creative-cloud-success-story\/","title":{"rendered":"A Creative Cloud success story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know that not everyone is sold on\u00a0Creative Cloud, but I liked\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2013\/04\/photoshop-sneak-peek-new-de-blurring-tech.html#comment-74593\">this comment<\/a>\u00a0from reader Nat Brown. This is why I harp on the importance of CC knocking down barriers to entry.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>For some of us, the Cloud has been a game changer. [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>I was a solo Photoshop user who wanted to pick up Illustrator. I calculated the Cloud to increase my Adobe expenses over three years by a factor of two and to be a break even with purchasing the two packages individually. I picked up some cost offsets in storage and hosting. For that, I got access to the whole Creative Suite plus more.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The surprise for me was InDesign. I never would have spent the money on it but it is quickly becoming my most valuable piece of Adobe software<\/strong>. I&#8217;m currently wrapping up an InDesign project that takes 1000 pages of federal Department of Labor regulations &amp;amp; commentary and wraps them into an 80 page interactive PDF. This one project alone will pay for the whole Cloud purchase &#8212; not just this year but for the next two as well.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know that not everyone is sold on\u00a0Creative Cloud, but I liked\u00a0this comment\u00a0from reader Nat Brown. This is why I harp on the importance of CC knocking down barriers to entry. For some of us, the Cloud has been a game changer. [\u2026] I was a solo Photoshop user who wanted to pick up Illustrator. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18205"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}