I am finally getting ready to hire help and had a question on the adobe license. I have been using personal and had it on my iMac and MacBook so the files would transfer between the two. Now that I need to add another computer and either needed to figure out the best way to do that so that I can have the files on all the computers. I know the business is pretty expensive compared to personal but with the business even though you need two licenses would the fils all transfer between each other or would it still be only per license that they would transfer? I also thought if I stuck with just another personal I could use the iCloud to save everything and have it transfer that way or would I be better off getting someone in to do a network set up to save everything that way?
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illustrator business vs personal
- Thread starter yamaha581
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DarkerKat
design & such
Went from a 2 person design department to managing 5 other designers over the last ~15 years, here's my 2c
While you're small/if you are sticking with 1-2 people, go with the personal license (but the business should be paying for them) Sign up for both (or at least the one you need to add) with a company email address so you can keep control of the account if the employee leaves.
If you go over 3 design employees - go with business, it's an added expense, but you as a business owner can keep actual control of the licenses and can see what machines they are active on/move them around (+no one can run off with one and leave you holding the bill) + other small perks
Network/file transfer - company I work for has a pretty robust network*, so we basically never use adobe cloud to share files, that said - you don't need to be part of the same business account to share files. It will be clunky but you can share files right from the the creative cloud desktop app. It's basically the same as emailing files back and forth via a dropbox/any other cloud software links.
*mind you adobe hates networks so there is some give and take here but file transfer is faster than the cloud
While you're small/if you are sticking with 1-2 people, go with the personal license (but the business should be paying for them) Sign up for both (or at least the one you need to add) with a company email address so you can keep control of the account if the employee leaves.
If you go over 3 design employees - go with business, it's an added expense, but you as a business owner can keep actual control of the licenses and can see what machines they are active on/move them around (+no one can run off with one and leave you holding the bill) + other small perks
Network/file transfer - company I work for has a pretty robust network*, so we basically never use adobe cloud to share files, that said - you don't need to be part of the same business account to share files. It will be clunky but you can share files right from the the creative cloud desktop app. It's basically the same as emailing files back and forth via a dropbox/any other cloud software links.
*mind you adobe hates networks so there is some give and take here but file transfer is faster than the cloud
thank you! I will try to get that figured out. I was thinking on using the iCloud but since I haven't been doing it that way the amount of files I need to transfer over is huge and seems like it is going to be a pain to do. I did notice the apple cloud can be a little slow between my two computers already but will give that a try with the creative cloud app just to make something work for now.
IMHO, it's safer editing files and archiving them on physical hard discs. I'm not against cloud-based storage, but I only use a Creative Cloud account folder or other cloud service like Dropbox to store commonly used items (that are also backed up on physical hard discs). If I'm working on a new project I prefer working on it via a local hard disc in the computer and backing it up on an attached external hard disc. If you're working on the only copy you have of a document and it is saved in a cloud-based location there is an outside chance it can get corrupted if the Internet connection goes flaky at all while the document is being saved or automatically backed up in the background. I see all sorts of complaints at the Adobe user forums about cloud-based Adobe documents that won't open. Adobe really tries hard to get people store active projects in their cloud. I'm not going to do that until the save process is made more reliable.
I don't disagree with that but we do a large amount of online orders weekly that are customized designs from our website so I feel like if we are doing some on one computer and some on another then it will be hard to keep track of everything and having to save from one computer to the next may get mixed up at times and one computer may not have the final approved design if there were any small last minute changes made which we do often. I am just so used to the files showing up on my license between the two computers I have maybe I am overthinking it for adding a third on a new license. I may just have to go with the external hard drive to transfer all the files over for now though.