To add insult to injury I emailed Adobe asking if I could exchange my Mac licence for a PC licence and was advised they don't offer such a service.Īffinity looks more and more attractive - although I am still really struggling to see how I can use RGB channels in the same way as I can so readily use them in PS. Once installation is complete, open Photoshop and enjoy Installing Photoshop CS6 on Mac Catalina is quick and easy, so you can start using this powerful software right away. Open the installer and follow the prompts to install Photoshop CS6 on your Mac. I for one cannot understand why this can be allowed to happen and I would be well p****d off if I had paid the full price - I am fairly p****d off having paid what I did.Īt least PC's have a compatibility mode which more often than not comes to the rescue. Download the Photoshop CS6 installer from Adobe’s website. According to Mac Rumors, below, is the status for the current Big Sur beta. In addition, they are suggesting that you run your Adobe apps in a test environment. Neither Adobe or Apple have any intention to continue support for CS6 under the new Catalina OS not only is there no support it won't even load or run. Adobe recommends that you wait until it’s no longer in beta to install it and run Adobe software. I was in one respect fortunate inasmuch that I spent the last few years of my employment in Education and so was able to purchase the full extended version of CS6 for Mac on an Education licence for just £160 - a bargain compared with the retail price of around £900. Older versions use 32-bit licensing components and installers. Incompatible versions (version 19.x and earlier) will not display in the ‘Older Versions’ list within the Creative Cloud desktop app. At the time of OS upgrade you will receive an on screen notification advising you CS6 (in my case) will no longer work and asking if you wish to continue with the OS upgrade. Adobe does not recommend that customers using old versions of Photoshop upgrade to macOS Catalina. I know this won't affect averyone but for those running Photoshop CS6 (and I presume earlier) on a MacOS machine you might like to be aware that upgrading your OS to the latest Catalina will stop PS from working.

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