Why won't Photoshop CS3 in Lion?

Yavari:

I had the same problem. All CS3 apps were running as usual after Lion upgrade... all but Photoshop. Then, after reading your post, I remembered Photoshop was running under Rosetta.

What I did? I moved Photoshop to desktop using option when dragging, in order no avoid an application alias creation on desktop. Then run from desktop... OS ask to make some fix because app was moved from original place.... You can cancel or allow (I canceled). Photoshop oppened as usual, played with the application 1 or 2 minutes, closed it and returned to the application's original folder.

Again I ran application, the system ask to repair... I allowed.... And Photoshop is working....

I hope my experience could help you.

Edwin

PD - Anyway... remember the Java upgrade... Now I don't know if it was necesary, because other CS3 apps were running fine... but just in case...

PD2 - Another issue: remember I made a change on Icon's name when moved to desktop... After placing it back to original folder I tried to rename icon. But received the same initial error, so I left it whith the new name.

It worked, awsomw! Thanks for the post.

"I had the same problem. All CS3 apps were running as usual after Lion upgrade... all but Photoshop. Then, after reading your post, I remembered Photoshop was running under Rosetta.

What I did? I moved Photoshop to desktop using option when dragging, in order no avoid an application alias creation on desktop. Then run from desktop... OS ask to make some fix because app was moved from original place.... You can cancel or allow (I canceled). Photoshop oppened as usual, played with the application 1 or 2 minutes, closed it and returned to the application's original folder.

Again I ran application, the system ask to repair... I allowed.... And Photoshop is working....

I hope my experience could help you.

Edwin"

Wow! That works reasonably well. At least until some gets their head out and comes out with a real solution. I copied PS to the desktop by dragging while holding the option key

Opened just like you said

I deleted the link in my dock and replaced it with a link to the new app. and hid it away in a separate folder.

Everytime I open it it gives me the repair or cancel option and I simply cancel and use it.

Hope someone comes up with something more permanent but, for the time being this works. I'm not sure who to blame Apple or Adobe but, for Apple to remove the open in Roseta checkbox and then let Photoshop continue to try to do it is ridiculous.

Thanks very much Edwin.

Templeton Peck, thanks for the link you provided.

I upgraded to Lion today and was concerned about CS3 not working. When I opened Photoshop, it gave me the exact same "...you need to install a Java runtime..." message as originally posted.

When I followed the link you provided [ http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1421 ] then downloaded, and installed "Java for OS X Lion" (the page says it "installs Java SE 6 version 1.6.0_26"), I was able to open up Photoshop CS3 (version 10.0.1) without a problem!

Thanks for the succinct solution!

I had the same problem when trying to open Photoshop. Rather than mess with DNS settings, I simply turned off wi-fi and plugged in an ethernet cable and when I opened CS3 it recognised that I was now connected to the internet, and it allowed me to install the Java update. Photoshop CS3 now working :-)

I had thesame problem. Strangely worked Ok on a Mac desktop but not on my Mac air thatwas configured exactly the same in all aspects. The solution was in the postdirecting me to a youtube link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRGpgAJ9uNw. It workedbeautifully other then the link to the apple site (first link in the Googlesearch) is not there any longer. I downloaded Java Runtime routines from thesecond listed link.

Thank you forthose who provided the solution.

i have the same problem with cs2

FYI, Photoshop CS3 does not seem to like Lion Server. I am running Server because it's required on Mac Mini server machines, and often PS CS3 is "not responding" until I quit it and reload, sometimes, several times. Sometimes a restart is required to make it work. It's enough of a pain that I am upgrading to CS6. Can anyone discover a really good workaround for people who don't want to upgrade?

I bought a new iMac and was running CS3 - Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign - with no problem. But the iMac was acting screwy: going to sleep and not waking up, losing internet connection easily, freezing in the middle of working. So I took it to the Apple store and the "genius" there told me very sternly that there was NO WAY I could run CS3 on Lion. He said CS3 was the reason for all of my computer's issues. If that's the official line Apple is taking, I don't understand why they haven't come out and said that under no circustances can you use CS3 with Lion. They wait until after you have bought an expensive new iMac to break the news to you that your very expensive software will no longer work. And then I see people on this forum saying that CS3 works for them. This is all very frustrating. I just wanted to share what I heard directly from two Apple "Geniuses": Under no circumstance can you use CS3 on Lion.

I have had this problem when upgrading from OS 10.6... to 10.7... But the error dialog tells me that neither my Photoshop or my Illustrator will work on a power PC iMac. Marvellous! I wish they'd told me this before I upgraded. Is there a way I can use these expensive applications on my Lion upgrade? I think Apple is incredibly irresponsible not to make this clear.