Using it on High Sierra. I am staggering my OS upgrades. Will upgrade to Mojave next year when Apple ends support for 10.13. Then I’ll just leave it at that for the rest of it’s life and purchase a new MacBook to keep current. Besides, Office 365 and most third party apps like Chrome still support older versions macOS and I use ESET for AV and Firewall.
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Photoshop and Fresco Apps for iPad Now Available as $9.99/Month Bundle
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Stay away from macos 10.15 Catalina or later. Make friends with Affinity suite.
If you are using e.g. InDesign, Acrobat, Dreamweaver, or other 32bit apps.
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Will the next MacBook run Mojave?
I ran into some trouble in the past trying to install older systems on newer hardware.
No new MacBooks or MacBook Pros released in 2020 or later will support Mojave.
Depending upon their release dates, they will either require 10.15 Catalina or else 10.16. IOW, if they are released at the end of 2020, they may not even support Catalina, much less Mojave.
I'm not a professional by any stretch of the imagination, I mainly use the software for my own purposes and the once in a blue moon freelance job, so an Adobe subscription is an unwanted recurring expense for me.
My plan is to switch to something else like Corel Graphics and Affinity Suite by then. If I get a cheap 15 inch mid 2019, I downgrade it to Mojave and move my CS6 there.
Haven't found a replacement that works for my use yet. That is, I must be able to access my full library on my Windows PC, iPad, iPhone and occasionally my MB Pro. Using the cloudy version of Lightroom works great for that, but requires a subscription. I am not nearly as anti-subscription as most here seem. I'd love to not pay for a subscription but am not willing to sacrifice the convenience of what it currently gives me.
I'm not so sure. Looking at my sub'd apps on the website I can't see where is says that explicitly.
They send out tons of surveys and at least a couple have had to do with pricing and what kind of bundle would be preferred. I always end with comments to the effect "Affinity is going to eat your lunch and steal your girlfriend if you don't come up with some one-time pricing." There is a lot of love for Affinity right now especially with their immediate response to people struggling right now by lowering pricing. I don't think Adobe has responded at all (that two free months thing has always been there) and I don't think they've even mentioned what's going on with AdobeMax.
I moved from Adobe Photoshop CS6 (which was still working great) to Affinity Photo when Catalina came round. Little learning curve but it's great, has all the functionality I could need, feels less bloated than PS did, only $50 one time payment.
Adobe needs to wake up and realize there's real competition at a fraction of the price. Subscribing to software is cancer. Hell I even cancelled my Amazon Prime membership - people, you still get free shipping, it's just not next day and not missed it one iota.
I only pay for Netflix & Pandora Family which has a bunch of people paying me to be a part of so that works out to only be a couple of $ a month.
Adobe needs to wake up and realize there's real competition at a fraction of the price. Subscribing to software is cancer. Hell I even cancelled my Amazon Prime membership - people, you still get free shipping, it's just not next day and not missed it one iota.
I only pay for Netflix & Pandora Family which has a bunch of people paying me to be a part of so that works out to only be a couple of $ a month.
Photoshop and Fresco Apps for iPad Now Available as $9.99/Month Bundle
No new MacBooks or MacBook Pros released in 2020 or later will support Mojave. Depending upon their release dates, they will either require 10.15 Catalina or else 10.16. IOW, if they are released at the end of 2020, they may not even support Catalina, much less Mojave.
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Affinity Photo and Designer are amazing on the iPad and Mac. That being said, all Affinity apps does not support RTL making Affinity Publisher useless for thousands of users who need Arabic and Hebrew support.
Unfortunately, it's still not real Photoshop. I've been mulling over the idea of exclusively using an iPad Pro, but It's not there yet, and software support is still a problem. Even though I've replaced Photoshop with Adobe XD, you can at least use regular Photoshop to do the same work. Sadly, there are no good alternatives for the iPad. There's no Sketch, Adobe XD or real photoshop.
It's one of the reasons I own a Surface Pro, but I'm platform agnostic. I'm not tied to any operating system or device. When I sold my iMac, I looked at several iPad Pro reviews, and I realized that it cannot be an exclusive design device yet. Things have improved a lot since then, but it's still pretty limiting for creatives and developers.
The current version of Photoshop for iPad is designed around photo editing, and so it's not usable for UI/UX work, at least based on what I've seen of it so far.
It's one of the reasons I own a Surface Pro, but I'm platform agnostic. I'm not tied to any operating system or device. When I sold my iMac, I looked at several iPad Pro reviews, and I realized that it cannot be an exclusive design device yet. Things have improved a lot since then, but it's still pretty limiting for creatives and developers.
The current version of Photoshop for iPad is designed around photo editing, and so it's not usable for UI/UX work, at least based on what I've seen of it so far.
Which is why I said mid 2019 MacBook Pro which originally came with Mojave.Photoshop and Fresco Apps for iPad Now Available as $9.99/Month Bundle
No new MacBooks or MacBook Pros released in 2020 or later will support Mojave. Depending upon their release dates, they will either require 10.15 Catalina or else 10.16. IOW, if they are released at the end of 2020, they may not even support Catalina, much less Mojave.
? What does that have to do with anything? He was asking about new MacBooks in 2020.
About 5 years ago I transitioned from Adobe graphics suite to Affinity graphics suite due to the rising cost of Adobe's subscription.
Affinity does NOT have subscription and to help people in these difficult times they offer all their apps with 90-day FREE trial and 50% OFF ❤❤
Affinity – Professional Creative Software
From the smoothest, fastest photo editing and graphic design software to the most powerful publishing software, Affinity apps are pushing the boundaries of what’s possible with creative technology.affinity.serif.com
Maybe this is shallow, but I really dislike the Affinity app icons — all of them. For a company built by and for designers, you’d think that they‘d pay a little more attention to their branding and the app icons that designers have to look at in their docks.
Given the 50% discount, I decided to buy Affinity Designer as an iPad Pro replacement for Illustrator that is not yet on iPadOS. Thanks for the heads up.
Sadly? Adobe Capture on the iPad does a decent job - and it’s free.
i really need offset, I’d use it more than tracing. But I have ways around it, so I avoid the subscription.
What we need is an updated Adobe flash subscription model.
You want a cheap solution, that’s fine. You want a professional solution, you need Adobe. Now, having said that, their iOS tools, and there are a lot of them, go from truly excellent, to not quite there yet. I find Affinity (mostly for iOS, but for the Mac it leaves something to be desired) to be too buggy, confusing and not really professional. Color setup is primitive, and a number of corrections are second rate. But that’s ok for those who don’t know any better, because they’re not in the commercial environment where it will be noticed, and rejected.
I have the plan, and they are there, as is every other app for the Mac and iOS.
I've found that Affinity is great for amateurs. If someone thinks they are a pro, but aren’t, really, it may work, but Lightroom is better. Most photographers don’t need more than Lightroom. I find Affinity to be buggy. I also find the UI to be confusing. It’s just not at a level that I would have felt comfortable for higher end work that goes to magazines, books, or pretty much any print publication. It also doesn’t have the hooks needed for proper integration with Illustrator and InDesign, which are, by far, the most used publishing software, along with Lightroom and Photoshop.
the problem is that if you’re professional, you have to get the best tools. And Affinity is not one of them. If someone is using these for real professional purposes, the cost isn’t relevant. That may sound harsh, but it’s also true. It’s like buying an amateur camera to shoot pro sports. Sorry, but that going to set pros back by a good $15,000 for the proper body and a couple of lenses. In comparison, the cost of Adobe’s tools are cheap.
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We using CS6 on isolated 2009 Mac Pro using Snow Leopard. No internet access, just local remote file access.
Somehow compared with similar 2012 Mac Pro (even upgraded), older OSX which released during that machine lifetime are more pleasant and comfortable rather than current last supported MacOS (e.g Mojave), I feel that OS wasn’t meant for them.
Shame for Adobe, they still with ancient code base and too lazy for making massive change to support today modern multicore CPUs, they only excel on single threaded operation, they not scalable with processor more than eight cores. That’s why Adobe suite are excel mostly on consumer i5-i9 CPUs.
The iPad apps….10 bucks for month, no thanks.
Somehow compared with similar 2012 Mac Pro (even upgraded), older OSX which released during that machine lifetime are more pleasant and comfortable rather than current last supported MacOS (e.g Mojave), I feel that OS wasn’t meant for them.
Shame for Adobe, they still with ancient code base and too lazy for making massive change to support today modern multicore CPUs, they only excel on single threaded operation, they not scalable with processor more than eight cores. That’s why Adobe suite are excel mostly on consumer i5-i9 CPUs.
The iPad apps….10 bucks for month, no thanks.
It's not just about cheap for me, Adobe doubling the yearly cost in my case played a role though.
I earn my living wage using Adobe, Quark and Macromedia products from 1993 on as a graphics designer with my own ad agency since 1998.
I really would have stayed with Adobe if I would constantly get Adobe files from other agencies or customers.
And I would have stayed if they hadn't try to hold my intellectual property for ransom. I don't mean the cloud but not being able to open my own work after subscription might end or Adobe simply decides as already happened.
Both wasn't the case. So I stayed with CS6 and switched slowly to Affinity which in some aspects is behind and way ahead in others.