photoshop cs6 and Mac Catalina

From one thrifty computer person to another:

I came to this board to find out if I Purchased for $350 a brand new version of creative Suite 6 if it would work on my new Mac computer or if I had to continue to pay 600 and some odd dollars a year to keep paying for usage of the newest software.  The main reason I was checking is because I don't always want to be online to do my work.  I'm kind of old-school.   So I guess  Ive got the truth.  I'm not the only thrifty computer geek out here! I'm sorry that you purchased before you came to this community and asked! Everybody's out to make as much money as they can I guess. Somebody can use that old software though.  Good luck to you!  Bonnie

And you can buy Photoshop Elements 2020 directly from Adobe.  It might be all you need.  No subscription required.

Start your free 30 day trial

• https://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop-elements/download-trial/try.html
• https://helpx.adobe.com/download-install/using/download-install-photoshop-elements.html

Bofore buying software and hardware, you need to check if they fit together.

Unfortuneately, Apple has a history of dumping compatibility to older programs.

As for Adobe, CS6 is quite old and not updated anymore. That is normal as Adobe cannot put-in the resources to update all versions of their software on a continious basis. 

You simply acquired 2 pieces that don't fit together. 

A different point to consider: there is no possibility to acquire Ps CS6 via a licensed source. And there is no "new" Photoshop CS6 on the market. So it is very possible that your PsCS6 version simply is an illicit copy. I would strongly recommend to wind back the acquisition if that is possible. Please look also here: https://www.adobe.com/genuine.html

You must have bought CS6 on eBay.  I hope you didn't pay much for it.   Maybe you can still get your money back.  Personally, I don't understand why anybody would want to use outdated software.  Particularly since software has an average shelf life of 3-5 years.  Beyond that, unsupported software isn't certified to work on newer operating systems.  You use it at your own risk.

Good news!  The latest Creative Cloud versions work on Catalina.   You just have to match your 2020 OS with compatible software from the same time frame  🙂

Can I use my Adobe apps in macOS Catalina 10.15?

Where did you recently purchase CS6? As Just Shoot Me says, it has not been sold for years.

>> very poor show of communication from apple and adobe.

• Apple has given at least 18 months notice to end users that 32 bit apps (such as CS6) will not work in Catalina. You would have seen warning messages whenever you launched CS6 in Mojave.
• Adobe warned users throughout 2019 that CS6 would not work on Catalina.

You can still revert to Mojave and run CS6.

https://www.imore.com/how-downgrade-macos

CS6 is from 2012... if you want to run old programs, you need an old operating system

Adobe did not do anything to make CS6 stop running... the fault here is all Apple

When did you purchas Photoshop CS 6?

PS CS6 has not been for sale for years.