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Hemant240646665dow
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February 28, 2025
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Adobe Photoshop Elements 2025 on Apple Silicon -- need download link for subscribers

  • February 28, 2025
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PSE 2025 is available in native binaries for Apple Silicon through the Mac Store (see https://apps.apple.com/us/app/adobe-photoshop-elements-2025/id6714463383?mt=12) and can be run on Mac OS without requiring the Rosetta translation layer.

 

However, I have bought the 3-year subscription to PSE 2025. When I download this version on  the Mac, it gives me the intel .dmg which then prompts for Rosetta.

 

Given that I am a paid subscriber of PSE 2025, why can't I access the apple version  for download through my account? 

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Jeff Arola
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Jeff ArolaCommunity Expert
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March 3, 2025

Adobe says the Mac App Store handles the download, installation, licensing, and updating of all products purchased through it, so i guess the download for the Mac App Store version would have to come from Apple, since even though the product name and version number are the same, a Mac App Store purchase is a separate build of the application.

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Hemant240646665dowAuthor
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March 5, 2025

Indeed. The Mac store would handle the download/etc. My question is -- can Adobe make available a link to the same binary that the Mac store hosts? That would solve my problem with the regular download link which has the accursed x86 content...

Peru Bob
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Peru BobCommunity Expert
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March 6, 2025

I wonder if the Mac Store download includes the Rosetta installation?

Jeff Arola
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Jeff ArolaCommunity Expert
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March 1, 2025

I believe the actual photoshop elements 2025 editor and the organizer are Apple silicon , but some of the required functions like running certain filters, etc still require Intel code to run, which is why Rosetta is still apparently needed.

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Hemant240646665dowAuthor
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March 3, 2025

What's interesting is that if you download PSE 2025 directly from the MacStore, it runs perfectly. No Rosetta warnings. It just works. Is it possible to get a link to that image directly?

    Jeff Arola
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    Jeff ArolaCommunity Expert
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    March 1, 2025

    The version here that includes the 2025.1 update says it's macarm64

    https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop-elements/release-note/update.html

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    Hemant240646665dowAuthor
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    March 1, 2025

    Indeed it does. I don't know if anyone else has tried to install from this link -- I have (I got the same link from the support chat engineers) -- it installs the launcher without an issue on Apple Silicon. However, when you click "Photoshop Elements Editor" from the launcher, it gives a warning that Rosetta needs to be installed. So I think either I'm doing something wrong or it's an x64 binary. What one would expect is for the download link: "Windows (x64)", "MacOS (x64)" and "MacOS (ARM64)". Presumably, they would need to add "Windows (ARM64)" if Adobe ever decide to support Windows ARM PC's.......

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