Installing adobe photoshop elements without Creative cloud

Its BS this is forced in as a requirement. And to those saying its not required for 2022 are wrong and I havent been able to get rid of the CC crap without having to unstill Abobe content completely. I paid for it and I shouldn't be forced to have Cc for installation, and sure as hell shouldn't have to deal with it contantly messing with my computer as glorified spyware refusing to unsitall without unstalling everything else. And to the idiot techs saying "reformat" your drives, that's how you destroy  drives that are not HD. That's dumb. 

Adobe has always been known as a resource hog, insinuating itself just to have control of your computer.

Bottom line, as with most things computer, online related, the user should be given the choice to "Opt In", not be forced to "Opt Out".

- Open Creative Cloud

- Click the top left 3 bar drop down menu button (no name)

- Click File then Preferences

- Uncheck "Launch Creative Cloud at login" 

- Uncheck the "Always keep Creative Cloud up to date" also, if you want...update when "you" want.

I agree CC is almost impossible to delete.  So many parts install and they automatically run at computer start up MacOS Monterey 12.1 in my case.  Even after I removed Elements 2022, the CC apps were still launching at startup.  After much digging in these help files, I found a uninstall tool buried somewhere on the Adobe site that allowed me to kill CC.  Unfortunately for Adobe, it seems to install and run in much the same way as some maleware softwares and I don't like than.

I have Used Elements 2020, 2018 and I think 2016.  I tend to upgrade every other one.  Previous versions of Elements were great packages and behaved the way I wanted.  2022 required CC which I neither want nor need.  Also when I bought it back in October there was some issue getting the serial number to register.  The Adobe help person offered me 2 options, 1) live with it and hope they will get it resolved before the trial ran out (Hey, I already paid for it why use the trial?) or 2 they could give me a full refund.  I opted for the refund and now I have problems downloading it again.

Adobe really dropped the ball with Elemets and Premier Elements 2022.  I will continue to use 2020 until either they decouple it from CC or provide some work around.  I use iCloud as a cloud storage and backup and do not really want CC or CCDesktop nor do I want a half dozen background apps launching at startup that cannot easily be killed.

Hi,

Installation of Creative Cloud desktop cannot be skipped with Elements 2021 and 2022.

After installation is complete, you can permanently quit the CC application, please see the solution here: https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/kb/creative-cloud-connection-faq.html

Thanks,

Vipin

Oh man this can´t be true. I dont need those things creative cloud will give. There must be a way to use this program without it like in former Versions-just the pure program. I use pse very rarely and and now a lot of services should run without use during the legal usage time of my mac???

You cannot install Elements without the CC app.   One of the reasons it is installed is because some users are getting a free Cloud account which can be used to save files from Elements.  The installation is also probably related to activation security and account issues, but I don't know that for sure.  So, even if you are willing to install and delete CC, perhaps using the CC cleaner tool, I wouldn't recommend it.