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Caught in the Cloudburst Adobe is the industry's 800 pound gorilla. As the old joke has it – "Where does a gorilla sit in a movie theater? Anywhere it wants to." Well,  Adobe has just entered the theater and is about to sit down. Some people will think that its doing so is a fine idea, while others are likely to get squished. Which one are you; and for that matter, which am I? To clarify this tortured analogy; what's happening is that Adobe is ceasing to sell the products in its Creative Suite (most importantly for us photographers: Photoshop) and instead will only be making them available for rental via the Cloud. This means that instead of being able to purchase Photoshop or any of the oth...

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