For those of you quick to upgrade to the latest macOS—you may want to hold off if you’re using an older version of Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator or InDesign. There is a fairly detailed thread about it on Hacker News.
Heads up for developers like me building Mac apps, this release is going to take a little more adoption time than most due to the 64bit-only nature of this release.
For example, I know there is a contingent of people who are stuck at Adobe CS6, whose certain critical components are 32 bit. Since Adobe no longer sells permanent licenses, opting to only rent their software instead, it’s impossible to get these updated. And these expensive and still-in-use licenses are going to die the moment people update to Catalina.
For those of us that don’t want to pay for a subscription, what are the alternatives to Photoshop CS6? The ones I know of are:
- Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer
Just wondering if anyone has found another work-around to get Adobe CS6 running with Catalina? I'm using the 'Terminal Method' which sort of works with a couple of limitations.
Go into Applications and click on Photoshop CS6, right click the Adobe Photoshop CS6.app, then Show Package Contents, click on Contents, then Mac OS, the double click the terminal icon/Adobe Photoshop CS6. A terminal window will open, and you'll get a couple of warning popups, canel those. Macbook air for software development. Then Photoshop will open.
However, Catalina doesn't support 32 bit applications like legacy Adobe InDesign CS5, CS 5.5 and CS6. Thus, your operation would be reliant on both equipment and software that can no longer be purchased if your organization is still using Creative Suite. CS6 will never be compatible with Catalina. We know there are some compatibility problems with Creative Cloud apps on Catalina. CC users would do well to hold off on upgrading to Catalina for at least a month or perhaps longer while the dust settles. Acrobat compatibility with the new macOS 10.15 Catalina. Acrobat DC, Acrobat 2020, Acrobat 2017, and Acrobat 2015 are compatible with the new macOS 10.15 Catalina. Major changes in user experience and known issues are described in this document.
Go into Applications and click on Photoshop CS6, right click the Adobe Photoshop CS6.app, then Show Package Contents, click on Contents, then Mac OS, the double click the terminal icon/Adobe Photoshop CS6. A terminal window will open, and you'll get a couple of warning popups, canel those.. then Photoshop will open. Its 100% functional with two exceptoions; you can'tSave for Web, and you can't open a JPG image. I bought Affinity Photo, so if I need access to a JPG, I open it in Affinity, then Export it as a PSD file. Minor inconvenience, but now I can open the file in Photoshop. And.. I can save the file as a JPG as long as I use the 'Save As' selection.
Uninstall Adobe Cs6 Mac Catalina
I don't know if we should blame Apple or Adobe, but as many long-time Photoshop users in the Adobe forums have said, they feel cheated. The Adobe nuts say CS6 is six years old, but its also had numerous service upgrades, maybe a half dozen? So people have been buying and using this version for 6 years.. so what? I can install Corel Draw 10 on a new PC and it works. CS6 is supposedly a 64-bit product, but Adobe seems to just want more money, and while I'm one of the retired guys that used Adobe PS at work since it was introduced.. I think that when you buy a product you shouldn't be shut out unless you buy it again. Just my two cents.
My advice to everyone complaining.. go buy Affinity Photo, especially when its on sale for $30 bucks and start migrating. Its gonna take some time, but 99% of what you want is there.
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Posted on Jan 20, 2020 5:57 AM