Did Adobe Really Remove Creative Cloud Access to Download Previous Versions of Photoshop?!

[Max Chroma]

Edit:  Here is the link to Adobe Announcing they have removed access to previous versions before 2018 - https://prodesigntools.com/adobe-limits-software-downloads.html

I am extremely concerned right now.  I was just going to make a youtube video showing how people can install an extension panel that I made back in 2014, that works just fine in Adobe Photoshop CS6 (Version 13) and CC (Version 14) or "Pre-2014"... before the HTML5 change that made everyones panels not work anymore.    

I have this panel available for free, and I have videos that show how to install it by going through the Creative Cloud Application, going to "Previous Versions" and installing either CS6 or CC Pre-2014.   Then it was a simple procedure to install the plugin panel by placing some folders in the main drive and in the Photoshop Plugins Panels location.   The Plugin Panel would work just fine.   

Don't tell me to make an html5 version,  I don't know how to program those as it kept changing and changing how you are supposed to be able to do it,  and my creative cloud monthly subscription and all my users subscriptions allowed them to install the previous versions and run the plugin panel just fine (a flash based panel created with configurator).  It has 6 pages, over a thousand different scripts, button images, roll-down menus, etc etc.   I am NOT going to make an HTML5 version of this plugin, it was quoted to cost something like $3,000 just to make an html5 compatible version of the panel I already have.  So please I don't want to hear any "answers" about how I need to just deal with it and make html5 panels.  The only thing I can do is tell users they can still run the .jsx script files from any version of photoshop like the new CC versions, which I use for new actions and other tools I make...  but the usefulness of the Plugin Panel was in how it had hundreds of scripts accessible from the buttons and pull-down menus organizing it visually,  some of the buttons are based on color and it helps to have a visual representation in the panel and not a huge list of actions that I would have to create to make something similar.

I am extremely upset right now.  I cannot believe after some of the searching I've done and seen the message Adobe put out to the community about the "discontinued older versions".   Do they not understand how they have now completely destroyed the work of all the programmers who made flash panels and were at least able to still have users install the previous versions of Photoshop or other programs and still run those panels??   It was bad enough the switch to html5 destroyed the compatibility of all that hard work, by people like myself who simply are not programmers that can just pick up html5 panel programming as easily as everyone assumes they can... it is nothing like using Configurator was, which was simple and I created a very complex panel with it, that is not easy to understand or even get into making html5 based versions of... especially with how they kept changing all of it... first it was use Eclipse 3, then it was use Adobe Extension Builder, etc etc... it keeps changing.  

I really want to know how am I supposed to show future potential users how to install the previous versions which would let my plugin panel work, when now they are not accessible anymore from within Creative Cloud?   I thought this is what people were paying for with Creative Cloud... access to all the various Cloud Apps and ability to install previous versions and keep running those versions.  Now they are saying those are "Unauthorized" versions??   I installed it with the Creative Cloud app with a paid subscription.   This is insane.   How can I show people how to install Photoshop CS6 or Photoshop CC Pre-2014???

[Chuck Uebele]

Unfortunately, due to some lawsuit, Adobe is restricting the downloading of the apps to just the last few versions. I feel your pain. Even before this, their adding and dropping of Flash inside of PS cause a lot of issues where I worked. One coworker created a custom metadata panel that stopped working when Adobe added Flash or changed how panels worked. This left us with tens of thousands of images, where we couldn't access the needed metadata. I managed to figure out how to access it with the new panel development. Then they dropped Flash, and I had to do it all over again. I played with developing extension panels, but stopped, in part, due to not being sure they would be supported for long. I learned AS3 coding to create a Flash based web gallery. That's gone now. I've looked into learning HTML5, but just haven't been motivated enough to do much.

[Max Chroma]

Thanks for the reply, I understand that this is a legal issue and we don't know if the ability to install those older versions will ever come back. I did recently make this panel free and open-source, but now I also have to say I can't really help with installing it if a user does not already have the CS6 or CC 2013 version of Photoshop on their system already. If anyone wants to convert the panel into HTML5 they are more than welcome to do whatever they want with it. Here is the link to download the free panel, but if this is against forum guidelines you can remove it or let me know and I will edit it out of my reply. https://payhip.com/b/dDAy

[Semaphoric]

This was due to a legal issue. you can read about it here.