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Photoshop still doesn’t work on Catalina, after three months of release and many months of early dev release.

I hope someone is able to replace them for photo processing.

Strange, I've had Photoshop CC2019 running fine with no issues and I've been on Catalina since the very first dev release. CC2020 is also now working fine. Truly software is the most fickle of beasts.

Here’s adobe’s posting stating the issues [0]:

> Which Photoshop versions are compatible with macOS Catalina?

> Photoshop 21.0 & Photoshop 20.0.7 work with macOS 10.15 (Catalina) but have these known compatibility issues. You may want to remain on your current version of macOS until these issues have been resolved.

[0] last updated dec 12 https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/photoshop-and-macos-cat...

> If anyone else has this issue that states: "the installer was damaged and may need to be downloaded again" I got around this by right clicking the installer and showing package contents > contents > MacOS and clicking on the install file found there

Have you tried this? I have CC 2019 installed on Catalina.

I’m dealing with the workarounds and have it running. But what I find interesting is that photoshop is one of the biggest software packages and they are out OA sync with Apple.

This is Adobe we're talking about, their video editor can't handle multiple audio streams in standard video formats and codecs (think game capture footage with game audio and microphone on separate channels), in fucking 2019. It can tell there's multiple streams, but it doesn't detect the sizes of any of them past the first one, and won't let you use them as-is; you need to extract them from the video container and import them as audio files and manually sync them to the timeline.

And some people suggest I'm supposed to feel guilty for pirating their stuff. Hah.

I remember Steve Jobs trying to convince developers to make a Photoshop for Rhapsody because Adobe hasn’t signed on to make it.

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