If you are interested in the brand-centric Capture One PRO 20, good until Friday 12/4/20 at 4:15pm ET, B&H Photo is offering the brand-centric Capture One PRO 20 (download) for $90 with a FREE $25 B&H Photo gift card included. This is available in three flavors, Nikon, Fuji X and Sony… You will also receive a free upgrade to version 21 when it comes out…
Mon: Adobe Elements 2020 (both Photoshop/Premiere) for $60
Adobe is back at the Woot dailies, they are having Adobe Elements 2020 as one of their Cyber Monday deals of the day (expires Monday at 11:59pm central or earlier if sold out).
The price is this: $50 each package BUT if you add both to the shopping cart, you get a $40 off combined purchase discount [automatically happening in the shopping cart when both are present], making both of them be $60.
Black Friday arrives at DXO: PhotoLAB4 ($120, $60 upgrade), NiK 3 ($75, $40 upgrade)
Black Friday has arrived at the DXO Online Store, good until 11/30/20, so you have plenty of time to research the software and read reviews and comparisons and such since these are digital downloads. The BF pricing is:
+ DXO PhotoLAB 4 for $120
+ Upgrade price is $60
+ NiK Collection 3 for $75
+ Upgrade price is $40
+ Dxo Filmpack 5 Elite for $65
+ Upgrade price is $35
+ DXo ViewPoint 3 for $40
+ Upgrade price is $25
+ see them all at the DXO Online Store…
Capture ONE PRO 20 (FREE upgrade to 21) download with $25 B&H Gift Card for $199
Adobe is not the only game in town! Capture One is around too! Good until Saturday at 11:59pm ET, B&H Photo is offer in digital download format the Capture ONE PRO 20 software for $199 with a $25 B&H Photo gift card bonus. With this purchase, you are eligible to receive for free Version 21 which come out in December 2020.
You can check out at B&H until 4:30pm ET on Friday. After that, you have to wait until Saturday 5:45pm ET, so plan your purchases accordingly. These are the rest of their Black Friday offerings…
NIK Collection 3 (25th Anniversary edition) with 15% off
DXo is the current custodian of the NiK collection and they have rolled out the 25th anniversary edition of the NiK Collection 3 for $150 or 150 euro depending on location at the DXo online store. But wait, there’s …less! While you are visiting that page, a promotion will appear that gives you a 15% off code! This is a digital delivery that includes eight plug-ins. It can be used on up to three computers. Minor software updates are included. Upgrade discount when a major version comes out. Works on Windows and MacOS. Check their website for minimum requirements and such…
The 25th anniversary edition added [wait for it] 25 new presets 🙂 Note that this is a plug-in collection that works with Dxo PhotoLab, Serif Affinity and Adobe’s Lightroom Classic, Photoshop, and Elements. Minimum versions are also mentioned at the “System requirements” link over there…
Saturday: 12-month Adobe Creative Cloud for $40/mo [with $10 one time bonus gift card]
Saturday at the Amazon USA Gold Box has a couple of potentially interesting offers:
+ 12-month Adobe Creative Cloud subscription (all the software, not just the photographer) for $40 per month with a bonus $10 Amazon gift card
+ gift card is one time only, not every month!
+ you agree to a 12-month term, but you pay monthly, you don’t prepay the full year right away
+ $50 Applebees gift card for $40
+ given the COVID siutation, of interest if you live in a state where gift card balances never expire (eg California)
+ per the reviews, a number of buyers in 2018 were receiving gift cards un-activated or without balance
+ personally I never had a problem with gift cards purchased from Amazon (I did not buy Applebees gift cards as far as I can recall)
+ speaking of Amazon reviews, there’s always the Smart Alec review 🙂
DxO PhotoLab 4 for $100 [ends Thur PM]
Good until the end of day on 11/19/20, the official DXO online store is offering their Dxo PhotoLab 4 software (full version) for $100. This is a digital download. They also have the Elite version for slightly more.
They have a linked-to pop-up comparison of the two versions at the aforelinked page. The Elite has extra features and includes three activations (instead of two for the standard version).
As you can see, there are many options aside from DRM-loving Adobe, it’s just that Adobe is suffocating the air, drinking almost all of the oxygen from the imaging software room 😉
PS: and while we be dissing Adobe, let’s not forget how much they are whining with one side of their mouth, but if you look at their quarterly financials [which they can’t hide as a public company] they have been raking in the billions, more so since they went to the software-as-a-subscription [aka Creative Cloud] business model.
FREE Skylum Luminar 4 with Fuji Camera or Lens purchase [Time Travelling Offer]
If you have already purchased or if you purchase in the future a Fuji camera or lens in the USA, you can get the Skylum Luminar 4 software for FREE. All you have to do is enter your product’s serial number, your name and email and zipcode and follow the instructions on the page…
The promotional period is November 15 in 2019 until December 31st in 2020. So even if you didn’t know of this promotion when you purchased your Fuji gear, you can still get the software.
1-Year Adobe Creative Cloud Student & Teacher for $192 [with Auto-Renewal]
This looks like a Fry’s Monday e-newsletter custom-promo-code price-match, but as of the time of writing Amazon is offering a 1-Year Adobe Creative Cloud (Student & Teacher) full version for $192. Validation of student/teacher status is required. US customers only. You can buy up to ten licenses through this sale.
NOTE: this is an AUTO-RENEWAL offer! You can cancel at any time by finding the subscription in your Amazon account. You can cancel by clicking, you don’t have to call anyone to cancel it.
Monday: Elements 2020 for $50 individually (or both for $75)
Adobe arrives as the headliner of the Woot daily deals it is an Adobe Elements 2020 offer. Individually you can get Premiere or Photoshop for $50 each, or you can buy both of them as a bundle for $75. Here we are talking about the Elements 2020 versions…
Other Woot daily deals include a budget HP Windows 10 crawlbook (oops, notebook) and Pioneer speakers. More time at home or the office during COVID 2020, more need for music and audiobooks and podcasts and such…
Then we go to Big Yellow, aka Best Buy’s dailies where you can haz [it’s so annoying when you use formerly-trending phrases years later!] a 500GB WD USB-C portabale SSD for $85, standing desk options, a $50 Case Logic Viso camera bag, a couple of very affordable WesthingHouse Roku TVs [hooray for Roku, it still managed to survive despite the Giants Battling Over Streaming Devices], and the headliner is a $70 Keurig K50 K-Cup coffee machine…
Nik Collection 3 discount up to 30% off
To sale-a-brate their EISA 2020 “Best Photo Editing Software” award, DXO is offering UP TO 30% off on their recently-blinged Nik Collection 3 software at the official DXO online store. A pop-banner shows up after you visit the site and it gives you a unique promo code that you can use it to get up to 30% off. If there’s some trouble with their checkout system, you may want to also try coupon code EISA-SPECIAL-OFFER-NIK-30.
HB includes Ashampoo Image and Video software options
Currently running for the next 15 days and change [as of the time of writing], Humble Bundle is running their Software Bundle III which includes some photo-related titles among the offerings. These are for Windows…
At the $1+ tier, you can get the Ashampoo Snap [screen recorder, great for Photoshop and image editing and Lightroom tutorials], Backup PRO 14, and Uninstaller 0.
At the $11+ tier, you also get Photo Optimizer 7 promoted as “Compact and fuss-free image editing for anyone unwilling to spend hours on their PCs”. You also get PDF PRO 2, and WinOptimizer 18.
At the $18.50+ tier, you get six more titles, including Ashampoo Photo Commander 16 promoted as “the complete solution to view, present, edit and organize your photos. Over 200 features cover all common image processing tasks”. Also included is “Video Optimizer PRO”, Cinemagraph [created animated pictures], Burning Studio 21, SoundStage PRO, and Driver Updater…
A portion of your purchase price goes to charity. You can select which charity from a list of options, or if you don’t select, it will go to the default featured charity of that particular promotion…
For the speed-readers out there, this is Windows only. And no, a shampoo is not included with the A-Shampoo software 😉
Serif Affinity Photo for $25 [download]
If you like to use imaging software from non-monopolistic Cash Cow Cloud companies, the digital download of the Serif Affinity Photo software is on sale for a limited time for $25 at B&H Photo…
Speaking of B&H, they are offering the new condition Atomos Shogun 7 HDR Pro/Cinema Monitor-Recorder-Switcher for $999 with free US shipping…
Adobe Premiere Elements 2020 for $60
Software time at the Adorama daily deals, good until Tuesday at 10am ET you can get the Adobe Premiere Elements 2020 for $60 with free US shipping. This is the “DVD & Download” software box delivered by mail…
Tuesday: Adobe Photoshop Elements 2020 for $60
The headliner Amazon Gold Box deal of the day for Tuesday 3/24/20 is the Adobe Photoshop Elements 2020 going for $60 in your choice of digital download or Disc delivered by mail…
In other daily action, the Adorama daily deal (changes Wedn 10am ET) is the new condition Polar Pro Mavic 2 Pro Cinema Series Gradient Filter Collection (with ND8GR, ND164 & ND328) going for $50 with free US shipping…
Tue: Adobe Photoshop Elements 2020 + $10 Gift Card for $55
One of the Amazon Gold Box deals of the day for Tuesday 12/3/19 is the Adobe Photoshop Elements 2020 offered for $55 but you also receive a $10 Amazon gift card. From the looks of it, Elements you can get a Disc in the mail or a digital download for Mac or PC. However the $10 Amazon gift card will arrive as a plastic gift card by mail in a greeting card. On the plus side, you can repurpose the greeting card 🙂
1-Year Prepaid Adobe Creative Cloud (all of it) for $360
If you are all in on Adobe’s Creative Cloud’s subscription, the whole Creative Cloud, not just the Photographer edition, for a limited time B&H Photo is offering it for $360 total for the 12 months. This is a digital download and cannot be cancelled and cannot be refunded. USA only ~ it needs a US billing address in order to activate…
For more action, check the latest B&H Cyber Monday offerings…
50% off all software by DXO
Good until 12/2/19, the official DXo online store is offering 50% off all their software. The price you see is the price you pay, there’s no coupon code to enter. The sale includes the recently acquired NIK Collection… Each software option proudly states with smaller type “No Subscription”, a not-so-subtle swipe at Adobe’s $$$greed$$$…
In-Stock alert: Photoshop for iPad (with 30-day free trial)
UPDATE: thanks to one of our readers for the alert ~ there’s a limited time Creative Cloud promotion that includes the Photoshop for iPad. Link coming later as I don’t have the email account on this device.
We have an in-stock alert of the iTunes App store kind! Apple has officially released Photoshop for iPad on iTunes with a 30-day free trial. After that they offer a $10/month subscription. This only includes the iPad iOS app, not the desktop versions of Photoshop. Otherwise it would have been major cannibilization of Adobe’s $$$profits$$$. A lot of the iTunes reviewers don’t appear to be very happy with the current version.
Note that only select iPads are supported, namely various PRO models, the Air 2, 5th generation iPad and the Mini 4. Also supported are the first two versions of the Apple Pencil. Looking at the compatibility list, the iPad line-up has become spaghetti without sauce 😉
Corel Software Returns to Humble Bundle starting at $1
If you are a fan of COREL and Humble Bundle, for the next ten days or so [as of the time of writing] they have brought back the COREL Humble Bundle…
Paying $1+ gets you three software titles:
+ Photo Mirage [Windows]
+ Particle Shop plug-in
+ Brush Pack – Animation
Meeting or beating the current average price [$22.51 as of the time of writing] gets you additionally:
+ Paintshop PRO Ultimate
+ 1-year of Gravit Designer PRO
+ Brush Pack – Superheroes
Paying $25 or more [very close to the average price] gets you all of the above plus the following:
+ Corel Painter 2019
+ Pinnacle Studio 23 Ultimate
+ Brush Pack – Manga
+ Brush Pack – Concept Design
They have two featured charities for this “bundle” but you can also select your own charities from a long list of options…
Nik Collection 2 Plug-Ins for $79 [ends 9/23]
Good until September 23 (2019), the DXO online store is offering the Nik Collection 2 Plug-Ins for $79. A total of seven plug-ins are included. Note that Dxo PhotoLAB is NOT included in this offer, only the seven plug-ins.
Just like Motorola, the Nik Collection made a brief stay in GoogleLandia before the “Data Creepers” decided to sell it off elsewhere 🙂
12-month Creative Cloud Subscription (all tools, not just Photography CC) for $30/month [Prime Deal]
It’s cloud busting time! For Prime members, Amazon-Adobe are DRMing offering this 12-month subscription offer: Adobe Creative Cloud (the whole set of tools, not just the Photography CC) along with 100GB of Cloud for $30 per month. After the 12 months are over, it will auto-renew at the going rate of the time of renewal (so pay attention at renewal time if you don’t want it to auto-renew). The price for non-Prime members is $53/month.
Amazon’s product pages can be quite busy, so I’ve annotated the parts to pay attention to. Sometimes the “Prime deal” is written with smaller print and it can easily get lost in the chaos of the ever-expanding product page:
Corel Aftershot PRO 3 software [digital] for $30
For a limited time, Stacksocial is offering the Corel Aftershot PRO 3 software on sale for $30 as a digital download…
PS: don’t forget to use any store credits and/or coupons you may have to drop the price further down [if eligible]… This applies to all Stacksocial offerings, not just this one…
Nik Collection 2 Launch Offer for $100 or 100 euro [w/free PhotoLab 2 Essential]
DXo is having a special launch offer for their Nik Collection 2 software. You can get them for $100 in the US and 100 euro in Europe. With it, you get the PhotoLab2 Essential software for FREE at the DXO website… This is a limited time offer that expires June 30 in 2019…
DXo PhOtO LaB 2 Elite for $89 after coupon
It’s better than Black Friday exclaims the DXo emailing list promo. Coupon code APRIL-SAVE-DPL2 drops the price of the DXo PhOtO LaB 2 Elite edition software from $199 to $89 until April 2nd in 2019. This is a digital download with immediate activation. This is the full version, not the upgrade version ~ thanks to le couponeaux!
Nik Collection for $60 or 60e
DxO is now the babysitter of the Nik Collection software and until the end of February 2019, they are offering the Nik Collection for $60 in the US and 60 euro in Europelandia through the DXO online shoppe.
Wedn: Paintshop PRO 2019 Ultimate for $40
One of the Wednesday Best Buy daily deals is the Windows version of the Paintshop PRO 2019 Ultimate software going for $40.
AS of the time of writing, Amazon has not price-matched it…
Meanwhile at the Woot website, “Electronics” features refurbished Pixel 3 smartphones (unlocked Verizon) for $550 to $600 (XL) with a 90-day Woot warranty… At “Computers”, it’s the refurbished Surface PRO 3 tablet bundle for $500 (12″, i5, 8GB, 256GB, Type Cover 3, 3rd-party Pen, 3rd party power supply, 90-day Woot warranty). There are many Surface models out nowadays, it’s a headache sorting things out if you are not intimately familiar with them, especially when you start factoring in the prices of accessories (covers, keyboards, pens, mice, cats, etc) and condition (new, open-box, manufacturer refurbished, 3rd-party refurbished, used, etc).
Dxo PhotoLAB 2 for $110
If you are a fan of the DxO software, they are running a Valentine’s promotion (in other words, it ends at the end of Valentine’s day, aka FEB-14), you can get the DXo PhotoLaB 2 software for $110 or the Elite version for $170…
Also part of the sale is the FilmPack 5 for $70 and the ViewPoint 3 for $70… The Elite editions of the aforementioned software cost more [as it is often the case with these type of things]…
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