@kglad, need confirmation but it sounds as if @progfx could be running into the issue where he can no longer reactivate the software because he had to reformat/reinstall and perhaps lost his available activations with no longer any way to get them back via Adobe. ... View more

Have never heard this before. AFAIK, Fireworks has not ever been available through the Photography Plan since it first launched in September 2013.   If for some reason that was your situation, it was not intentional nor widespread. The Creative Cloud Photography Plan has always been Photoshop plus Lightroom. ... View more

Fireworks CS6 is a discontinued app but can still be installed through the Creative Cloud Desktop app if you have an "All Apps" subscription and have selected "Show Older Apps" in the Preferences.   Fireworks may come up as a 30-day trial but your valid CC subscription license should be recognized after following these steps:   https://community.adobe.com/t5/fireworks-discussions/fireworks-asking-for-serial-number/td-p/1138131...   ... View more

Fireworks CS6 is a discontinued app but can still be installed through the Creative Cloud Desktop app if you have an "All Apps" subscription and have selected "Show Older Apps" in the Preferences.   Fireworks may come up as a 30-day trial but your valid CC subscription license should be recognized after following these steps:   https://community.adobe.com/t5/fireworks-discussions/fireworks-asking-for-serial-number/td-p/11381315   Hope that helps. ... View more

There has been no change in the availability status of Fireworks.   As before, Fireworks CS6 remains available through the Creative Cloud Desktop App provided that "Show Older Apps" is turned on (in Preferences > Apps > Settings):     Adobe's statement that "Fireworks has been discontinued and is no longer available for purchase or support" has been true for some time. Fireworks CS6 was officially "end-of-life" around a decade ago.   Here is a current screenshot from Windows 11, where Fireworks is still available for customer download along with other discontinued apps like Muse, Prelude, and Flash Builder:     Typically, an "All Apps" subscription is required to access these older tools. Note there is no support offered from Adobe, nor any guarantee that these apps will install or work properly on newer systems.   However, Fireworks did successfully download, install, and run this morning. It may come up as a 30-day trial, but your valid CC subscription license will be recognized after following these steps. ... View more

Thanks, Jane. Yes, it seemed like an odd post but there were no foreign spam links or anything, so I let it go. ... View more

Credits in this case have nothing to do with attribution or contribution. They are strictly about the computational cost of running AI operations.   You can learn more about generative credits and how they work here. ... View more

Technology is going to keep marching on – that's never going to change. And Adobe moves ahead the OS version requirements in order to take advantage of the latest available capabilities in their newest Creative Cloud releases. But since the very beginning of Creative Cloud, Adobe has said they would not force customers to upgrade, and by implication, to have to buy new computers. To make good on this promise, subscribers need to be able to access prior releases for older systems (especially Macs) which cannot support the newest CC versions.   In recent years, Adobe has limited this access to only the current release and the one prior. This is called their "N-1" Policy. Now, today, this means that macOS Big Sur (version 11.0) or later is required, since it's the minimum for both CC 2024 and CC 2023. This rules out everybody who, for whatever reason, is running macOS 10.15 Catalina and earlier.   As others have commented above, some older Creative Cloud releases are still available for direct download, but the choice is limited and it is unclear if those links will be available indefinitely.   I think it's not enough to say that folks can keep their old systems and versions in a frozen, isolated bubble, without ever needing to reinstall their apps... "Things happen," components fail, products can need reinstalling. If paying customers do not have ready access to those prior CC releases for their otherwise-perfectly-adequate machines, they are out of luck.   And since Adobe generally does not make complete standalone installers available anymore for CC users (unless you ask), then people aren't aware they need to have in hand the installers that they can no longer get, until it's too late.   I think Adobe urgently needs to do something about this, lest they continue to lose paying customers who can no longer access a Creative Cloud version that will run on their systems. "N-1" should be expanded to a wider window of previous releases (as it used to be), while disavowing all official support on anything older than N-1 and simply asking that any subscribers who need support for those prior releases just come here to the Forums instead.   Adobe of course still has all those older installers, should they decide to make them available – so it's just a policy change, really. I sincerely hope they do something about this soon. ... View more