If your plugins aren’t working, check if there’s an upgrade available. While there are some workarounds to keep it going, it sometimes pays to pay, and the one-time charge ($69) for the new version gets you service and support and more compatibility than the neglected old free version (now called Nik Collection 2012) from when Google owned the software. I’m a heavy user of the Nik Collection, but found that in High Sierra that it was constantly crashing. I found that Adobe’s automatic updates on CS6 weren’t working in the move to macOS High Sierra, and so I had to download Camera Raw 9.1.1 manually to get it working. This does add an extra step in the process to opening your photos, but that’s the price of hanging on to older software. You can drop your camera’s raw files into the DNG converter and convert them into the digital negative standard, which is still able to be read by Photoshop CS6. That’s where Adobe’s DNG converter comes in. That means many newer cameras, such as Canon’s 80D or 5D Mark IV, aren’t supported and you won’t be able to natively open raw files from newer cameras in the older version of Photoshop. Make Use of Adobe’s DNG ConverterĪdobe stopped updating Camera Raw for CS6 three years ago, at version 9.1.1. That means my third computer, one of the desktops, soldiers on with my previously paid-for version of Photoshop CS6, as it doesn’t make sense to pay for another full license on an occasionally used machine.Īs software grows stale though, it gets harder to run on newer machines and software, and so if you’ve got a shiny new Mac but no reason to upgrade to CC, here’s how you can eke a little more life out of your current version of Photoshop.

I’m a Creative Cloud subscriber, but that unfortunately only lets me install the software on two computers. I’m in a different position in that I split my time in two places with two desktop computers and one laptop that all have photo needs.

Adobe photoshop cc 2018 updates