can this Photoshop CS3 Mac Macintosh version be installed on Apple Macbook Pro 13" Dual Core i5 16GB | Catalina MacOS?
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I have a simple question on Apple OS(since I am not a Mac fan): can this Photoshop CS3 Mac Macintosh version be installed on this Apple Macbook Pro 13" Dual Core i5 16GB | Catalina MacOS? I try to catch up image editing on Photoshop CS series. thanks a million:rose:
diligent hands rule....
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I have a simple question on Apple OS(since I am not a Mac fan): can this Photoshop CS3 Mac Macintosh version be installed on this Apple Macbook Pro 13" Dual Core i5 16GB | Catalina MacOS? I try to catch up image editing on Photoshop CS series. thanks a million:rose:
diligent hands rule....
Depends on if was built for the Intel chip or not. By the time Catalina came out, I'm sure Adobe quit testing CS3 on it. According to this post, not even CS6 will work on Catalina. You got these options... 1. Pay for a newer version and/or subscription. It's like $20 a month. To me though, it's not the money that's the issue, but Photoshop has become bloatware with all this creative suite nonsense and running background apps. Still... 2. Downgrade your OS to Snow Leopard or dual boot it. 3. Emulate an older OS like Snow Leopard. It'll be slow. Can also emulate Windows on the Intel chips, but I wouldn't if you're buying a Mac to learn the Mac way of life. Defeats the purpose from just getting a Windows laptop. 4. Use something like GIMP instead if you don't want to buy a newer version. IMO Photoshop is better, especially with it's AI driven functionality, but you get what you pay for.
Jeremy Falcon
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I have a simple question on Apple OS(since I am not a Mac fan): can this Photoshop CS3 Mac Macintosh version be installed on this Apple Macbook Pro 13" Dual Core i5 16GB | Catalina MacOS? I try to catch up image editing on Photoshop CS series. thanks a million:rose:
diligent hands rule....
And most importantly, get used to using your thumb for shortcut commands. :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
Jeremy Falcon
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I have a simple question on Apple OS(since I am not a Mac fan): can this Photoshop CS3 Mac Macintosh version be installed on this Apple Macbook Pro 13" Dual Core i5 16GB | Catalina MacOS? I try to catch up image editing on Photoshop CS series. thanks a million:rose:
diligent hands rule....
Btw, the main benefit to using a Mac over a PC for images is color palettes, gamma adjustments, displays, etc. have always been more accurate on a Mac than PC. You can literally take two monitors on a PC, from the same manufacture no less, and have different colors. Not that you can't color correct on Windows, but that also depends on the drivers, etc. Macs tend to do this sorta stuff out of the box with very little configuration needed. There are areas where a PC will be much better IMO. Like, backwards compatibility for instance. Macs suck with that. I mean, you could say Apple is "bold" for trying new things, and sure. But, backwards compatible ain't one of them. :laugh: But, if you're looking for a good display with accurate colors, that's the whole reason people use Macs for graphics in the first place. Macs aren't made for tinkering, they're supposed to just "work" so you get back to whatever you was doing... supposed to.
Jeremy Falcon
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Depends on if was built for the Intel chip or not. By the time Catalina came out, I'm sure Adobe quit testing CS3 on it. According to this post, not even CS6 will work on Catalina. You got these options... 1. Pay for a newer version and/or subscription. It's like $20 a month. To me though, it's not the money that's the issue, but Photoshop has become bloatware with all this creative suite nonsense and running background apps. Still... 2. Downgrade your OS to Snow Leopard or dual boot it. 3. Emulate an older OS like Snow Leopard. It'll be slow. Can also emulate Windows on the Intel chips, but I wouldn't if you're buying a Mac to learn the Mac way of life. Defeats the purpose from just getting a Windows laptop. 4. Use something like GIMP instead if you don't want to buy a newer version. IMO Photoshop is better, especially with it's AI driven functionality, but you get what you pay for.
Jeremy Falcon
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diligent hands rule....
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diligent hands rule....
In addition to Jeremy's reply, Adobe's Photography plan is only ~$10/month: [https://www.adobe.com/creativecloud/photography/compare-plans.html\](https://www.adobe.com/creativecloud/photography/compare-plans.html). It includes Photoshop and Lightroom. Photopea, an online photo editor, has some of Photoshop's capabilities: [Photopea | Online Photo Editor](https://www.photopea.com). And if you are making art without a lot of deep manipulations, things like Krita may interest you more than Gimp: [Krita | Digital Painting. Creative Freedom](https://krita.org/en/). There are many more art tools available for free and otherwise with a search.
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Btw, the main benefit to using a Mac over a PC for images is color palettes, gamma adjustments, displays, etc. have always been more accurate on a Mac than PC. You can literally take two monitors on a PC, from the same manufacture no less, and have different colors. Not that you can't color correct on Windows, but that also depends on the drivers, etc. Macs tend to do this sorta stuff out of the box with very little configuration needed. There are areas where a PC will be much better IMO. Like, backwards compatibility for instance. Macs suck with that. I mean, you could say Apple is "bold" for trying new things, and sure. But, backwards compatible ain't one of them. :laugh: But, if you're looking for a good display with accurate colors, that's the whole reason people use Macs for graphics in the first place. Macs aren't made for tinkering, they're supposed to just "work" so you get back to whatever you was doing... supposed to.
Jeremy Falcon
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Btw, the main benefit to using a Mac over a PC for images is color palettes, gamma adjustments, displays, etc. have always been more accurate on a Mac than PC. You can literally take two monitors on a PC, from the same manufacture no less, and have different colors. Not that you can't color correct on Windows, but that also depends on the drivers, etc. Macs tend to do this sorta stuff out of the box with very little configuration needed. There are areas where a PC will be much better IMO. Like, backwards compatibility for instance. Macs suck with that. I mean, you could say Apple is "bold" for trying new things, and sure. But, backwards compatible ain't one of them. :laugh: But, if you're looking for a good display with accurate colors, that's the whole reason people use Macs for graphics in the first place. Macs aren't made for tinkering, they're supposed to just "work" so you get back to whatever you was doing... supposed to.
Jeremy Falcon
I'm sitting here chuckling thinking back to my first experience with Mac...IIRC it was a PowerMac 6100s from 1994ish. The phone company was throwing it away so my dad scavenged it and gave it to me complete with software, a printer, scsi cd reader and a huge 13'' color monitor. :thumbsup: It got me through my first year back at uni, but when I got into the programming classes, I had to finally get my first windows machine. While it's true that the colors looked fantastic on that little monitor, too much of the time it was displaying a sad mac face, or worse yet, a bomb icon! :laugh: I must have rebuilt that system at least a dozen times. Frustrating, but it taught me a lot. I do realize that the h/w and software (7.5.x) that I owned were from a time when quality was questionable/shoddy, and that quality was vastly improved by the time the iMac came out and has only gotten better. That said, I still (illogically I know) hold a grudge and refuse to get an iDevice for myself. (the wife is on iPad/iPhone #8...the benefit being when she has an iProblem, I don't gotta be involved! :laugh: another benefit is to avoid video calls...sorry, doesn't work on my android! :cool:)
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