[Note: The rest of this section was originally written about the Adobe software available at the time Mac OS X 10.13 High Sierra was released. System requirements for current versions of Adobe Creative Cloud applications may be different.]
On October 20, 2020, Adobe announced the 2021 release of Creative Cloud applications. Unfortunately, of the Creative Cloud 2021 applications I have seen, most have a minimum system requirement of macOS 10.14 Mojave. If you must keep your Mac on macOS 10.13 High Sierra, the Creative Cloud 2020 applications are the newest that can be installed.
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Some Lightroom presets may fail to sort in alphabetical order in High Sierra; Adobe has acknowledged this issue at feedback.photoshop.com. This is at least partially fixed in Lightroom 6.13 and in Lightroom Classic CC (7).
The panel and filmstrip areas may black out at times. This is apparently related to macOS graphics issues. macOS 10.13.2 should fix most of the occurrences, and for other versions the Lightroom team has attempted to work around the problem as much as possible. To best avoid the problem, Adobe says:
The Illustrator team posted a compatibility document (Illustrator and High Sierra). It lists issues with APFS, color management default settings, and GPU rendering. Some of those problems are fixed in the 2018 release of Adobe Illustrator CC.
While not specific to High Sierra, one issue that may affect Mac users is that in Premiere Pro CC 12.1 or later, Adobe no longer supports Apple QuickTime 7 era codecs that were deprecated by Apple back in 2013. However, those codecs still turn up in a lot of places so people (like me) are finding problems with those clips may no longer work properly in Premiere Pro. The only workaround at this time is to use the Creative Cloud desktop application to uninstall Premiere Pro CC 12.1 and reinstall version 12.0.1.
Be prepared to uninstall and reinstall if needed. Adobe applications were already installed when I upgraded my test Mac to High Sierra. After the upgrade, some older Adobe applications had licensing errors. I was able to fix these by uninstalling and reinstalling those applications, and the lesson here is to always make sure you have all of the information you need (such as license keys or registration numbers) to reinstall any of your key software. You may also need to reset Adobe licensing files on your Mac (see Registration servers, update servers, and activation servers below).
The error message is documented in an Adobe help page: Installing Creative Suite on macOS 10.12 (Sierra). But I found that the same workaround helped when the Photoshop CS3 installer silently failed after I double-clicked it.
The question of CS2 compatibility comes up during every recent Mac system upgrade. Some users moving up from older Macs running 10.6.8 or earlier to new Macs with the latest OS version may still be using the Creative Suite 2 (CS2) version of Adobe software, such as Adobe Photoshop CS2. As with the last several major Mac system upgrades, macOS 10.13 High Sierra requires that software be written for the Intel processors that have been running Macs for over 10 years. But CS2 applications were written for the PowerPC processors that ran older Macs. The last version of Mac OS X to run PowerPC software was OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard.
The 2018 release of Photoshop CC adds support for HEIF; this requires macOS 10.13 High Sierra. Specifically, you can load an HEIF depth map into the Lens Blur filter. Lightroom Classic CC 7.4 also adds HEIF support.
In macOS 10.13.4, Apple added support for external graphics processing units, called external GPUs or eGPUs. The idea is that you put a powerful graphics card inside a box and connect it to your Mac using Thunderbolt, and that upgrades the graphics capabilities of your Mac.
While Apple was probably driven to add eGPU support to address the needs of augmented reality/virtual reality (AR/VR) developers, eGPUs should open up more graphics acceleration options for photographers, designers, and video editors. For example, instead of having to buy a 15-inch MacBook Pro just to get discrete graphics, you should be able to carry a thin, light 13-inch MacBook Pro around town, and then back at the office plug it into an external GPU that gives it a graphics card more powerful than anything found on a laptop.
As usual, I will probably wait a few months to upgrade my production Mac to High Sierra. That will give Apple, Adobe, and other developers to release any necessary updates needed to make everything work smoothly together.
Hello Conrad, i tried to install some applications of adobe master collection cc 2017 in high sierra but the only one that works for me is photoshop, i need to install after effects , premiere and audition, can you give me any suggestions?
I shoot photos in RAW I do the odd adjustments like Appature and brightness
I then tend to do the odd sharpen and spot heal but not a lot more , so I don the need an all singing all dancing
Programme but I do wish to stay with Adobe
Now you know what those of us who depended on FreeHand have been through! Since Illustrator could not compete with it, Adobe bought FreeHand and are just sitting on it. They do nothing to support it let alone upgrade it. I finally installed Parallels running Snow Leopard so that I could use it, but it is slow.
Now I am having trouble with my PS CS5. It will only print on 8.5 x 11 size paper. I have NO choices at all when it comes to printing except to push the print button! Adobe is nothing but a greedy monster!
Hi All. So my query is this:
I currently have Sierra running on a MacBook Air (not High Sierra) and CS3. All seems fine for me on all used. (photoshop and indesign) My only issue is that I want a blank background rather than my desktop picture in Photoshop showing around the artwork and I am unsure of how to do it.
Hi Conrad, Is this the support that you mentioned would come along at some point? =en_GB (Download for Java 2017 -001). I usually wait until the last possible minute before I upgrade my Macs, but do follow it throughout the year. With this whole 64 bit thing and my CS6, High Sierra might be my last for this machine. PS Thank you for all your valuable insights into this. You are greatly appreciated out here in the interwebs.
Hi Bridget, the Apple link you posted helps address just one potential Java-related compatibility issue for CS6 in High Sierra. However, that download does not address the other potential compatibility issues listed for CS6 in High Sierra. You might be right that High Sierra might be the last macOS that will be practical for running CS6 applications.
Thanks for the reply. If there are other potential conflicts then I might just be staying on Sierra and not doing the upgrade to High Sierra. ? I was hoping to stay updated as much as possible without having to buy into the subscription trap of Adobe. If you find out anything different, please let us know. ?
Later 6 months I have spent quite much time researching about my options for a stationary computer, checking compatibility between different versions of OS X, and the software that I need. Basically everything has to be re-bought in newer versions.
So I got the Mac Pro 2012 with dual CPUs, filled with RAM, one Intel Optane 900P NVMe as boot-disk together with another larger Optane P4800X that I intend to use as scratch-disk and to place the ongoing projects data on. I have choosen High Sierra as OS as it seemed to be the most stable OS, allowing NVMe, and also compatible with both 32 and 64-bit.
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