Will ADOBE CS6 Applications still work after APPLE retires 32bit support in Catalina?

Or you could use Photoshop Elements for Mac which does about 75% of what Photoshop does. The only thing I use in PS that PSE doesn't have is convert to CMYK color mode but I can use Graphicconverter for that.

That model can run Catalina. However, you probably should stay with Mojave. You could get an eternal SSD drive to run Catalina and switch back for working with PS.

I use this setup:

to boot into older systems in order to run iDVD, iMovie 6 HD, etc. Boot time is only 45 seconds, about the same as my internal boot drive.

FWIW, OSX 10.7 released in 2011 was a fully 64-bit operating system.

The CS6 "suite" released in 2012. It was Adobe's choice not to fully

support 64 bit in any subsequent updates. Adobe has dropped support

the CS6 suite for quite some time now and was deemed by Adobe as obsolete.

So where is it Apple's fault for no longer supporting obsolete 3rd party

32 bit applications that it has no control over.

The 64bit CS6 and the 32bit Application Manager....i am in the same situation, the only thing we can do is to make a time machine back up (to have the option to recover back to Mojave) and update to Catalina, maybe the Application Manager can run, or maybe we can use the creative cloud desktop app to activate, if that fails i will use my old Mac Pro 1.1 to run Photoshop CS6.

Can anyone tell me what is the latest system software that I can successfully run CS6 Suite on my iMac?

I do not want to move to a subscription model. I feel that I should not have to have an ongoing subscription to access/edit art/design that I have created. Thanks for any help you can give me.

Before upgrading to Catalina i ran CS6 on Mojave but occasionally it would freeze when i used content aware fill, but that could happen back in Sierra also... for my main system i have recovered El Capitan to a separate hard drive from a Time Machine backup. So in my testing i find El Capitan to be the latest solid performer with CS6.

In Catalina, CS6 and all other older Adobe software is dead. The OS tells you straight out it can't be used.

Mojave is the last Mac OS CS6 will run on, and as mentioned by others, not without some issues. For better results, El Capitan is the newest OS you should use with CS6.

I had a similar experience with Photoshop C3 when I got a new machine. My old machine crashed and I couldn't unregistered it for PS. Adobe had stopped it's registration servers so couldn't get the new machine registered and able to use C3.

If you do want to run Catalina you can always do so from an external HD as I described above.

You need Apple's Java 6, which is the case for all of Adobe's previous suites.

https://support.apple.com/kb/dl1572?locale=en_US

What Model ID is your iMac?

Without knowing what model you have we can't begin to help.

https://helpx.adobe.com/ca/photoshop/kb/64-bit-os-benefits-limitations.html

You're not talking to Apple here, just other Apple product users like yourself.

FWIW, you can keep Mojave for CS6 and install Catalina on a different volume. You can replace CS6 with less expensive non-subscription apps such as those from Affinity, etc.

Install Catalina on a different volume sounds good... replace CS6 with Affinity is less attractive... :-)

Whatever floats your boat. 😎