Downgrading Photoshop 13 to Photoshop 9

Question

I first purchased Photoshop 9 and then upgraded to Photoshop 13. I am very disappointed with Photoshop 13.

I still have Photoshop 9 installed on my Laptop. I have Photoshop 13 installed on my desktop computer. I have different sets of photos on these computers and would like to be able to move photos easily from the laptop to the desktop. Can I replace Photoshop 13 on the desktop with Photoshop 9 without causing problems with the edited photos already there?

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MichelBParis · Accepted Answer

georges95545202 wroteI was not clear enough with my question.When I first installed Photoshop 13, I found that all of my edited photos from Photoshop 9 became "unbound". This also happened with any subsequent photos which I edited in Photoshop 9 on my laptop and transferred to my desktop with Photoshop 13. What I mean is that instead of viewing 1 fully edited image which I could pass by when searching the catalogue in Photoshop 13, I had to see all of the edited versions of each photo. So if an image was edited 3 times in Photoshop 9, the Photoshop 13 catalogue shows 4 images rather than the single final edited image.Secondly, I am concerned that all of the categorization into albums may be lost in going back to Photoshop 9?I am not sure what you are expecting.- your photo files are on your computer, available for any editing software, PSE9, PSE13 or any other non Adobe editor.- The PSE9 organizer stores the information about your photo files in a catalog. The catalog holds the information about those files, their exif data, tags and their physical location on your drive(s). The albums are only lists of files registered in that catalog and only exist in the catalogs..- The PSE13 organizer requires a catalog. Either it offers a new empty catalog, or you can convert your PSE9 catalog to the PSE13 format. If you agree to the prompt you get when installing PSE13 to convert, or if you choose to convert from the catalog manager, everything is recovered, there are no 'missing files'. The links to the physical location of files on your drive are updated.- If you start with an empty catalog and try to 'import' your files, you recover what may be in your files. The usual process is to use PSE9 to 'write metadata to files'. The following informations from the catalog are written in the files: tags, captions, notes, ratings; albums, stacks, version sets, creations can't be written to files and are lost. The tags information present in the files can be recovered at import time by PSE13 or any other managing software based on catalogs.- PSE13 can convert PSE9 catalogs, but backward conversion of catalogs from PSE13 to PSE9 is impossible.- Switching back from PSE13 to PSE9 or any older PSE version is the same as switching to a third party managing software. The only way is to write metadata to files in PSE13 before importing into PSE9. No way to convert catalogs, no way to recover albums, version sets, stacks or notes.

georges95545202 · Answer

I was not clear enough with my question.

When I first installed Photoshop 13, I found that all of my edited photos from Photoshop 9 became "unbound". This also happened with any subsequent photos which I edited in Photoshop 9 on my laptop and transferred to my desktop with Photoshop 13. What I mean is that instead of viewing 1 fully edited image which I could pass by when searching the catalogue in Photoshop 13, I had to see all of the edited versions of each photo. So if an image was edited 3 times in Photoshop 9, the Photoshop 13 catalogue shows 4 images rather than the single final edited image.

Secondly, I am concerned that all of the categorization into albums may be lost in going back to Photoshop 9?

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