Is El Capitan compatible with Adobe CS5?

Holger Jensen wrote:

...improves Photos enough to be truly competitive with Photoshop I would gladly abandon Adobe forever.

I think Apple has already proven a disinterest in creating pro oriented photo apps

by the fact that they dropped Aperture. You may expect some improvements to Photos,

but more likely to support general consumer needs and desires. It's part of the ever

growing 95% trend of product development that Apple is adopting (not worth the effort

to worry about the 5%).

There are some promising alternatives to Adobe but most are not yet ready to fully compete

with the Adobe products. Perhaps when more people start moving to those alternatives

it will generate more revenue for them, allowing increasing development staff and moving

faster toward "one upping" Adobe products.

O. Third Party Software. Apple has provided as part of the Apple Software package, and may provide as an upgrade, update or supplement to the Apple Software, access to certain third party software or services as a convenience.

How do you think that this is applicable? Apple never provided Adobe CS 5 as part of the Apple Software package.

JimmyCMPIT wrote:

....If you don't have a backup of your computer in this day and age you are potentially putting yourself in a position where all your data and functionality could be irreversibly lost for an investment of less than $50 - $100 to prevent it. .....

I totally agree. Anyone trusting their entire digital life to a single storage device

is an accident waiting to happen. An external HDD of $100 is pretty darn cheap

insurance. Warranted lifetime is usually 3 years, so $100/36 months is less than

$3 a month!!! Most of the time drives used in backup roles last much,much longer than

that.

Thank you, you have me wondering about Flash. I kept receiving reminders that the version I had was outdated. So I recently upgraded that application. But I think that is all. I will also run the disk utility. I recently ran an Etrecheck and posted it here.

Exactly, life was so much easier having control over your own software, that you owned, not having to lease it

on a monthly basis. And, yes, it's only $9.99/month right now but give it time, I'm sure Adobe will increase that

price after people have gotten adjusted to cloud software.

Robin8 wrote:

Exactly, life was so much easier having control over your own software, that you owned, not having to lease it

on a monthly basis. And, yes, it's only $9.99/month right now but give it time, I'm sure Adobe will increase that

price after people have gotten adjusted to cloud software.

Perhaps by that time some of the up and coming competitive apps may

be up to snuff and real alternatives. There are a few that are getting pretty

good (Affinity Photo comes to mind) but aren't quite there yet, although for

some may be good enough and will likely only get better.

I have to agree but I know PS so well now I hate to have to give it up only to have to learn a new image editing software.

Although, I may have to at some point. For now, I'm muddling through and can edit just fine using CS5.

Very intriguing, I especially like that you can buy it outright, no monthly subscription and that it's specifically Mac-based. Could

definitely be a viable option and so much cheaper. Will research, hope to find others that made the switch and can offer their

opinions on how it ranks vs PS or even LR.

That's just it – I am not really keen to take that risk, upgrading, downgrading, copying data on/off, all this switching, I know I will

screw it up somehow. And you're right, maybe it isn't Adobe's problem but it would be nice for them and Apple to at least communicate

w/ each other then alert their consumers. So unprofessional really. Yeah, reporting crash reports – what a joke. You send them and

then they go into a black hole. I don't bother anymore since they never respond.

I spoke with an Adobe engineer when I had a long term problem with CC2015 and 10.11 and asked him outright if CS6 was supported in El Cap. His response after asking him in the course of our conversation several times was to avoid the answer without so much as an "I can' answer that." or "there is no official word." he repeatedly acted as if I never asked him the question.

and improves Photos enough to be truly competitive with Photoshop I would gladly abandon Adobe forever.

They were not even meant to be competitive. Aperture's competition was Lightroom, not Photoshop.

Photos is simply a free replacement for iPhoto. Both are non-professional photo management software.

iPhoto, Photos, Aperture, Lightroom, are Capture One are primarily photo management software. Photoshop is primarily a photo editing software.

The part you omitted from the copy/paste/edit of my post when you asked me "how is this applicable?" is why this is applicable:

Apple has no express or implied obligation to provide any technical or other support for such software or services. Please contact the appropriate software vendor, manufacturer or service provider directly for technical support and customer service related to its software, service and/or products.

Robin8 wrote:

....it would be nice for them and Apple to at least communicate

w/ each other ....

Adobe can't even communicate amongst themselves, let alone with anyone else!

Prime example, Lightroom can connect to cameras and download images all day

long, yet Adobe Bridge can't even see the camera!

Haven't looked at this latest release, but never really use it anyway

as I use Lightroom as a RAW processor and management tool.

I had only used Bridge in the past to confirm other people's

complaints of it not working. And when I did those it in fact did not

work.

Yep, sounds about right! And the incredible irony to ALL of this is, my husband works for Adobe, albeit, their marketing division – and he complains as well. Very poor communication and little to no technical support throughout all of Adobe. They are lucky they are such an established brand, but as we've been discussing, it won't last forever.