Can I install older photoshop version on second/third computer?

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July 2, 2019
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I will be away from home for the summer, and will have access to an older computer. I am going to storage to hunt up one of my many older versions of photoshop to install on the older computer to work during the summer. Will adobe accept my product key from my cd case? I currently use CS6 and have it installed on one, maybe two computers. Thanks for any info!

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Chuck Uebele

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To add to what the others have mentioned, if your copy has been installed on two computers and hasn't been deactivated, then you have to contact Adobe to reset your license.

Trevor.Dennis

Community Expert

Two points.

1) You can 'install' Photoshop CC on more than two computers. You can only 'sign in' on two at any one time. For instance, I have Photoshop CC installed on a desktop, laptop, and little Cintiq Companion. I don't even sign out of the laptop to use the Cintiq. Just sign in on the other computer and one of the first two computer automatically signs out. I've done this dozens of times, and it is not a problem.

2) We had an issue with older versions recently, and the downloads became no longer available. Our understanding was that this did not apply to Perpetual Licenses, for CS6 and older, but I wanted to use my old CS6 version on another system just last week, and couldn't find the install files. Adobe does not seem to have them available any more, and nor does the ProDesignTools site.

Does anyone know where to download CS6?

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cyberpaintAuthor

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Trevor, I can't "sign out" of photoshop cs6, just exit. There is no sign in or out that I know of.

Trevor.Dennis

Community Expert

cyberpaint wrote
Trevor, I can't "sign out" of photoshop cs6, just exit. There is no sign in or out that I know of.

Sign Out is only for Creative Cloud, and done via the Application Manager. It's easier than it used to be though. We used to have to go into the Application Manager preferences, stand on one leg, turn around and say 'I love Photoshop' three times. Now we just have to click on our avatar image yo see the panel below. BTW Before anyone panics that my email address is visible, I know and don't care, as my email is easy to find, and it can't be harvested automatically from an image.

With CS6, providing it was installed from the perpetual license, and not the CC Application Manager, we have to go Help > Deactivate. It's so long since I used my CS6 license, I can't remember if I deactivated when installing CC.

But getting back your original question, if you are away for a period of time, then there is no need to revert to CS6. Just use CC V20.0.05 and sign in to it. Sign back in to your home systems when you get back. It's that simple, and I do it all the time.

Derek Cross

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Presumably the older computer has an older version of an OS?

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cyberpaintAuthor

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Yes, it's windows 7.

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cyberpaintAuthor

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Ugh, I think at least a couple versions back I was downloading instead of buying a cd. So the photoshop version may be too old to work. I will have to see what I have.

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