Recovery of old Elements images

[jonny-adams]

I have a CD with photos stored from some years ago. I am using Apple Photos on a Mac Mini and receive the message : "Photoshop 3.0 is required to open this file". I did for a short while use Photoshop Elements, but never Photoshop. Can you advise me how to recover these photos?

[edwinb97216184]

i would first look at the files. i guess they are not .jpg files but .psd files. So when you know what type of files they are from the extention, you could search for a piece of software that can handle those files and perhaps convert them to .jpg so you can import them into apple photos

[Jeff Arola]

The specific reason for the message is the .psd file(s) have layers and were not saved with

a "Composite" (flattened) version of the document along with the layers. 

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/file-formats.html

Anyhow, a new version of photoshop elements 2020 is your best bet for opening the files correctly followed by Gimp (free) or Affinity Photo (not free).