Adobe CC Tutorials

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March 7, 2023
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I have a brand new iMac 24. Why does creative cloud want to download photoshop every time I want to try tutorials when I already have PS on my CC plan and on my computer already?

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Bill28245184wvia

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I think the sample files link is broken for many of the tutorials. Instead of downloading a sample .jpg to follow along with the tutorial video, we are getting the photoshop installer file. In my case it is a .exe file since I am using a PC. Some of the affected tutorials are:

Crop a photo

How to adjust photo lighting with Levels

How to adjust photo color with Hue/Saturation

How to sharpen a photo nondestructively

Alternatively, not all tutorials act in this way. The Correct an unwanted color cast tutorial works just fine.

Ged_Traynor

Braniac

@Bill28245184wvia I just tested the first 2 links in your post and it does indeed download the installer, Photoshop was opened at the time.

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Bill28245184wvia

New Participant

Well it's exactly the same as the installer file downloaded from here

https://helpx.adobe.com/ie/photoshop/get-started.html

and this is from the Crop a Photo link

It does open the file in Photoshop, but it's clearly misleading/confusing information on the landing page

Thank you for confirming the link behavior @Ged_Traynor. Would this discrepancy between the behavior suggested by @Kevin Stohlmeyer and my experience be due to the fact that I don't have the most recent version of photoshop installed? If so, this is not quite as easy as simply updating my version of PS. I am a high school teacher and I use these tutorials as assignments for my students. Distributing the newest version of the creative cloud apps to all of the computers in my classroom takes some coordinating with my district IT department. Last quarter I requested one workstation have the latest Premiere Pro version installed, and it took over a month for IT to complete my request. In the meantime I am simply directing my students to do online searches to find images that are at least similar to the ones used in the tutorials. No other solution will likely come soon enough for my current group of students, but I just wanted to bring attention to this issue for future users of these tutorials.