Photoshop CS6 + CS5

Will I be able to run CS6 alongside CS5 hassle-free?

Yes, if you use them independently. but if you use Lightroom to go to Photoshop, then LR3 will choose the newest version for CS. I haven't downlaoded LR4 yet.
if you use plug-ins, they may or may not work. The latest versions of Nik Software work great.
Hope that helps.
Danielle

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Surface Pro 3 + Photoshop CS6 + Latest N-trig Driver = TOTAL FAILURE!!!...or is it just me???

I recently purchased a Surface Pro 3 (i7/256GB) for the main purpose of getting back into drawing. I wanted to run Photoshop CS6 (I'm not buying into Adobe's CC subscription crap) with N-trig's latest 64bit driver that is supposed to add pen pressure support. But, now I can't draw a single straight line because the new N-trig driver is causing the pen to jump at the beginning and end of each stroke. The result is that every stroke I make ends up with an "L" shaped hook at both ends. The issue does not occur in my trial version of Photoshop CC or any other drawing application... it only affects Photoshop CS6. And, the problem occurs whether or not I've enabled the pressure sensitivity option. Furthermore, the problem goes away if I uninstall the N-trig driver... but, then I lose the pen pressure feature. Am I the only one having this issue? This is super frustrating because my main reason for getting the Surface Pro 3 was to use Photoshop CS6. And let me tell you... it's not easy for an Apple "Fanboy" like myself to admit the allure of the Surface Pro 3;)

JNK-Art wrote:
I agree. I Fault Adobe and MS. Adobe wants you to pay a monthly fee for CC, so don't count on them updating their "not so old software" anytime soon. MS ... are just idiots. Always on the verge of greatness and they do something to mess it up. They are clueless that the vast majority of Surface Pro 3 users are artists.
However, until it is fixed I do have a work around for everyone. I've only purchased Sketchbook Pro 2015 (v7) and Corel Painter 2015 (both of which work fine with the Surface Pro 3 (SF3). For CS6 or older programs that strictly use the wintab (aka Wacom like devices) do the following....
Directions:
1. You must download the newest N-Trig driver (ntrig.com). There is a Wintab Driver 1.0.0.16 but there is also a 1.0.0.17 that works as well.
2. Install the driver. Photoshop and most other Wintab (or Wacom like use programs such as - Photoshop CS6/CS5, Corel Painter 12, SB Pro 5 or 6 ... and so forth) will now work on the SP3.
3. However .... other programs such as Onenote, Sketchbook Pro 2015 and their like will not work!!! Note: Corel Painter 2015 are the only "smart" Program Creators to have an option in the programs "preferences" to use n-trig or wacom (aka wintab) drivers. This wonderful program can switch back and forth. Such a simple solution ... hint, hint!!!
4. To get sketchbook Pro 2015 and other programs to work again ... uninstall the N-Trig Wintab driver in the Control Panel/Programs.
5. Yes, you must install and un-install the Wintab driver ... Annoying but it works for all your Art Programs and other Pen Pressure programs/apps.
Call MS and ask them to at least create an "on and off switch" for the wintab driver till this gets fixed, (this on off switch should be in the new Surface Pro 3 "Hub" Pen utility program)!!! However, as you can tell from Corel ... software makers can fix this issue as well, hint, hint again Adobe!!!
Until it is fixed: All we can do is call MS and ADOBE (and their greedy like,) tell them to fix their software and don't let up till they do. Secondly, I personally will not buy anything (software or hardware) until this is fixed. Thirdly, I will never "rent" my software Adobe.
JNK.
Not to be an annoying jerk, but a couple of points:
Autodesk are moving towards a subscription model. Yes, you can get SketchBook Pro 7 as a so-called "permanent" license but all you're getting is minor updates. (And upgrade pricing is going bye-bye in February, if I recall.) Something to keep in mind as you may have no choice in the future *but* to subscribe. You really don't own the software even in a permanent/purchased setup anyway. They just give a license to use it regardless of the situation.
While we're on the subject, Autodesk released their newer version of SketchBook Pro for mobile without letting users of the previous paid version of SketchBook Pro know what was going on. They just dropped it onto the Google Play and the App Store. Not very polite (or professional), in my opinion, and they ended up with a lot of angry users as a result.
Corel...maybe it's just me and how I used to use PaintShop Pro, but I could never wrap my head around that app's interface. It's mostly clunky; it's like they're trying to be Photoshop but can't be Photoshop for obvious reasons. I switched to Photoshop Elements 9 from PaintShop Pro X2. I actually considered PSP again before deciding on Photoshop CC. The kicker was trying to use layer masks in PSP. Just...bleh. Guess I was too used to how Photoshop Elements did it (which is very much like how full-on Photoshop does it, minus the fancy style and adjustment layers...which was also one of the reasons why I upgraded).
Calling a company like Adobe "greedy" is a bit unfair (not to mention the wrong way to communicate with a company). For $10 USD/month for the latest versions and any and all new features/updates for Photoshop and Lightroom via the Creative Cloud Photography Plan? I'm pretty sure we're the ones getting away with murder there. Adobe made a ton of cash from the CC Photography Plan, hence why they made it permanent. People found it to be the "sweet spot" for subscribing. They couldn't be more right. By the time a couple years pass by, we're still not approaching what people would pay outright just to use a copy of CS6 *minus* Lightroom. People pay more than that a month just to play a stupid MMORPG. Hell, people pay more for in-app purchases on mobile games.
Just my observations.

Photoshop CS6 issue with shortcuts and my keyboard after upgrade from CS5

I recently upgraded from CS5 Extended to CS6 Extended on my Mac (Mavericks), but installed it in English instead of German this time. I transferred most of my presets just fine, but none of the keyboard shortcuts were working. All I got was an unequal sign for all shortcuts and even manually changing them didn't get them to work. I found a few discussions about this issue and ended up adding a German keyboard, as I am always on the Romaji setting of my Kotoeri (Japanese) keyboard. That seemed to solve the issue, but only if I change to the German keyboard before opening Photoshop. Shortcuts don't work in CS5 anymore either unless I do. Sometimes the shortcuts also stop working a while after I change back to the Kotoeri keyboard.
Now I would like to know if there is any way to get around this issue. Isn't there a way to get my shortcuts working again without constantly having to change keyboards? I much prefer the Kotoeri one since the icon for the German keyboard in my menu bar looks extremely obnoxious, in my opinion. It's mostly a cosmetic thing to me, but I would love to get everything back to the way it was before.
I'd much appreciate any advice or help.

I am having a similar problem. Just upgraded to Apple Yosemite and all none of my keyboard shortcuts are working in a clean install of Photoshop CS6. Every menu item has some form of the ≠ sign. I've trashed the .plist file, rebuilt permissions, etc. Even basic keyboard commands, like Command-N for NEW or Command-Q for QUIT do not work. In fact, many don't show up in the menu at all. I don't have this issue in InDesign CS6 or Illustrator CS6. Every once in awhile, maybe 1 time out of 20, menus and keyboard shortcuts work properly, but I can't find any pattern.

Photoshop CS4, CS5 and CS6

I've just upgraded to Photoshop CS6. I still have applications for CS4 and CS5. This includes Bridge, Device Central, Extendscript Toolkit, and Extention Manager. Each version has one.
Can I get rid of all relating to CS4 and CS5 now that I'm using CS6? Any downsides?
I also have some plugin programs like the Topaz Suite and now Perfect Photosuite 7. How do I migrate them into CS6?
Thanks for any suggestions and help.
Bob Collins

Generally, you would have got the option to remove the old versions. However, you can uninstall the old versions but you should do it from Windows Add/Remove modules in the Control Panel so that it doesn't remove the common files from your machine.
If you are not constrained by disk space then the best thing is to leave the old programs on the system until you are familiar with the new features of the upgraded program.
I have renmoved the old programs from my Windows 7 because I wasn't using them. These days I use "Corel Paintshop Pro X5" and "Corel Draw Graphics Suite X6".
Photoshop is for something I need to test for my colleagues who are not familiar with certain features in Corel so I tell them how to do it in PS CS6.
Hope this helps.

Photoshop CS6 crashes constantly on 2 very different macs, but CS5 running very stable!

hi
our photoshop cs6 (with latest update to 13.0.4) keeps crashing daily and is not stable at all.
so we would work with cs 5 again, as this version is very stable and wont crash even once in a year.
we are daily/"9-5" working at a photographers´ studio and use 2 different macs:
- brand new mac pro 6-core (2010/Westmere) with 48GB RAM under system 10.8.3
- old mac pro with Two 2.66 GHz Dual-core Intel Xeon "Woodcrest" from 2006 with 16GB RAM under system 10.7.6
(both with standard equipped/shipped graphics cards)
cs6 crashes daily whith following tasks:
- frequent crashs: using "motion blur"
- frequent crashs: using "refine edge"
- sometimes using "transform tool"
during our tests, we found out, that "disable graphics card" (photoshop>settings>performance) in the mac pro from 2006, would prevent a crash, when using "refine edge". in the latest mac pro from 2010, we did not find any solution to prevent a crash.
a "crash", we define as follows: during the mentioned tasks, photoshop is gone from the screen in the blink of second, and an osx sign appears "photoshop has crashed"..
thanks for your time..

Instructions for submitting crash reports with your email address: http://adobe.ly/gNJWVY
As Chris states, this will help us track down your issue.
I agree is Christoph, I would suggest leaving OpenGL/"Use Graphics Processor" enabled and twiddling the Advanced settings for Drawing Mode to "Basic." Then restart Photoshop and see if the problem still persists.
That setting is the main difference between CS5 (Basic) and CS6 (Advanced).

My hard drive is DEAD.I have to reinstall all my Adobe programms and I need to know exactly the correct process to do ( Indesign CS6-Photoshop CS6 - Photoshop CS5 -Illustrator CS6 - Ligntroom 4 )....

My hard drive is DEAD.I have to reinstall all my Adobe programms and I need to know exactly the correct process to do ( Indesign CS6-Photoshop CS6 - Photoshop CS5 -Illustrator CS6 - Ligntroom 4 )....
is any friendly tutorial available ?
Thank you
Albert

If you didn't have the opportunity to deactivate the installations then you should contact Adobe Support thru chat and ask them to reset your activations for all the serial numbers involved.
Chat support - For the link below click the Still Need Help? option in the blue area at the bottom and choose the chat option...
Make sure you are logged in to the Adobe site, have cookies enabled, clear your cookie cache. If it continues to fail try using a different browser.
Serial number and activation chat support (non-CC)
http://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/global/service1.html ( http://adobe.ly/1aYjbSC )
Then you just reinstall the programs and activate using the same serial numbers. If you need to download you can find download available thru the following links...
CS5 - http://helpx.adobe.com/creative-suite/kb/cs5-product-downloads.html
CS6 - http://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/policy-pricing/cs6-product-downloads.html
Lightroom - all versions
Windows
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=113&platform=Windows
Mac
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=113&platform=Macintosh
You might also find the following helpful...
Download and Installation Help -
https://helpx.adobe.com/download-install.html

Can i install Illustrator CC with Photoshop CS6 and Indesign CS5.5 or can i have some problems of compability? I use Windows 7. Thank u...

Can i install Illustrator CC with Photoshop CS6 and Indesign CS5.5 or can i have some problems of compability? I use Windows 7. Thank u...

Generally this should work, but of course there may be occasional compatibility issues across the different programs and their different versions.
Mylenium

Photoshop CS6 transparent mask causing problems when saved as RGB Tiff and placed into CS5 Indesign

Is anyone aware of a gray/black halo around feathered transparency objects. The halo occurs where the solid area of pic feathers to the transparent.
NOTE: Image looks fine in Photoshop(CS6) but when placed as an RGB TIFF into Indesign (CS5) a black halo appears on page. See visual explanation below.
This only happens when image is an RGB Tiff and layer mask is used to create transparency. If image is saved as .psd then it is fine. Also when RGB tiff is converted to CMYK then this is also ok.
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I look forward to anyone's suggestions.
Ideally I could just start using psd format, but I have to handle alot of images that are already in RGB tiff and it is time consuming to have to open and re-save all of these.
Adobe Photoshop CS5 RGB tiffs are still working fine.
Thanks.
Colourjam.
(Pre-Press Production Digital Image Operator)

Yes the halo is does appear on the final PDF used for printing, and therefore does unfortunately print.
Why would RGB Tiffs in Photoshop CS6 suddenly cause this to happen. If we revert back to placing Photoshop CS5 files into Indesign, all is good.
Also it is not just an isolated event as my colleague has the same thing happening on his workstation.
Could it be that that Indesign 5 cannot colour manage the new CS6 RGB Tiff files?
CMYK tiff works well, as does PSD (CMYK and RGB)
Also please note, that if you were trying to recreate this to see if you get the samed problem, the halo occurs as soon as you create transparency with a layer mask and feather the edge of mask, and then save as RGB tiff. It will not be visible if you have a hard line or a vector edge.
Just for the record here is our set up.
Indesign CS5 (PC)
Photoshop CS6 (PC)

InDesign CS5 will not import Alpha Channels from images saved in Photoshop CS6

Just searched through the forums to find this thread in the (now-Read Only) Photoshop CS6 Beta forum:
http://forums.adobe.com/message/4310886
Which is exactly the same issue I'm having. I just cropped about a 1000 images with alphas originally created in PS5 and resaved using PS6.
My client still uses CS5 and the images won't recognize the alpha channels in inDesign5.
I see in this thread that it said a fix for older versions of inDesign was being worked on, this was back in April.
Any news on these fixes? (before I open PS5 and resave all these files)

Hi Peter,
The images in question all use alpha channels to mask out the image backgrounds (usually white) in InDesign layouts.
I opened the images in PS6 to crop out excess background (to get file size down) and saved the new files.
When I go to import the images one by one into InDesign 5 (via Cmd-D, Import options ticked) the Alpha Channel pull down menu is greyed out and I'm unable to select the Alpha Channel.
If I open the image in PS5 and resave, I'm then able to access the Alpha channels in ID5... but that's a lot of images to go back through to fix.
I also tried opening the layout in ID6 (where the alpha channels do work) and saving down to the idml format. When opening up in ID5 the alpha channel is no longer recognized and the background of the image that was masked out is now visible.
Cheers,
Alan

How to load custom photoshop cs5 layer styles to photoshop cs6 ?

how to load custom photoshop cs5 layer styles to photoshop cs6 ?

yes that was done on installatiion , when i open ps cs6 and look for them there, and they are not there . and thank for reponding so fast.

I want to but Photoshop CS6 as an upgrade from CS5. Don't want to fool with CC.

I want to but Photoshop CS6 as an upgrade from CS5. Don't want to fool with CC

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Edit: What a regrettable developement at Adobe that CC business is …

Problem to write urdu paragraph in PhotoShop cs4,cs5,cs6.

Hi All,
Calling out for help from #Pakistan here
I want to write #urdu paragraph in Photoshop cs4,cs5 and cs6 or in any support version. please guide me with tutorial. have serious problem in this regard.
Cheers in advance (I hope)
Shahbaz
online urdu video tutorial - Online IT Tutor

nope... this is a known issue for users. Hopefully will be resolved soon (not holding my breath though). Some people have suggested resetting pram, uninstalling flash, quitting Safari, updating java, installing third party mouse driver software etc... but for me nothing has worked yet.
I have 2 monitors and this happens quite a lot, but ONLY on my iMac monitor. If i move the mouse cursor to my second screen it's visible there, move it back to my iMac screen and it disappears.
My workaround is to hover over the dock to claim my cursor back, but that is really just an annoying thing to do every 5 mins.
I am convinced this is a OSX issue but the two companies are just pointing fingers which will not result in any fix any time soon.
Thinking about selling my two Apple machines because of this bug.

I want to download Photoshop CS6. Should I first deinstall my old Version CS4 and parts of CS5?

I want to download Photoshop CS6. Shold I first deinstall my old VErsion CS4 and parts of CS5 from my PC?

You can keep your old versions along side CS6. You might want to test CS6 before you uninstall anything else.
Nancy O.

Photoshop CS6 Landscape Printing not working. Works fine in CS5.1

When I select Landscape printing, Photoshop CS6 waitis a moment and then goes back to portrait printing. And it will not print landscape. I still have CS5.1 and it works fine. I'm not sure what to do.

Yes, I did update to v13.0.1. It still will only print portrait.
My printer is an HP Photosmart C309a. All other programs landscape printing works. (Microsoft Publisher & Word 2007 for example).
When I click the landscape icon to change the print settings to print landscape--the program just waitis a few moments and then goes back to the selecting the portrait button.

Adobe Photoshop CS6 or CS5 extended for Vista

I tried to download a trial version of Photoshop CS6, but was unable to do so since I am running Windows Vista which is apparently "unsupported". Is it possible for me to download a trial copy of CS5 extended?
Can I download CS6 on a Windows 7 machine, then install it on my Vista machine?

PerryRiick wrote:
I tried to download a trial version of Photoshop CS6, but was unable to do so since I am running Windows Vista which is apparently "unsupported". Is it possible for me to download a trial copy of CS5 extended?
Yes, you can download a trial copy of CS5.5 Extended from http://prodesigntools.com/adobe-cs5-5-direct-download-links.html
You'll only be able to use it for 30 days though. Adobe no longer sells it so you will not be able to buy a serial number for it.
Can I download CS6 on a Windows 7 machine, then install it on my Vista machine?
That won't achieve anything. CS6 will not run on Vista. Doesn't matter if you download it on any machine or obtain it on Flash drive or DVD - it still won't run on Vista.
System requirements are here:
http://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/policy-pricing/system-requirements-photoshop.html
Are you in a position to upgrade Vista to Win 7 or Win 8 and avoid all this running around?

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