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How To Purchase Adobe Photoshop CS6 (no Creative Cloud subscription)

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Adobe has changed to a subscription format for it's creative suite products. You pay around £14 per month to use a single app; that in my book is a big ripoff especially if you're like me where using something like Photoshop happens very rarely. So why just not use it? The problem is, other products are very inferior and for someone who has grown up with Photoshop products, having to get used to some other clunky UI can be quite frustrating.

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There are a few ways to still buy Adobe Photoshop CS6 without subscribing to the creative cloud subscription service. One of the most common options is to use Ebay and purchase someone's copy. The price for these can vary quite a lot and stocks for CS6 change; when I was searching for a copy around a year ago, prices for legit copies were going for around £800.00 each. However, doing a quick search now, I'm seeing copies go for around £450.00 each. Depending on when you read this blog, the price might vary quite a lot from those values.

Sometimes, buying a copy from Ebay means you just buy the serial product number. Then you download the software yourself from Adobe and enter your product key. This is a legitimate way, but you don't get a physical copy. You can use Photoshop on up to 2 computers at a time (you need a separate license for Windows and Mac). You can deregister a product key too, so if you ever need to transfer your copy to another computer, you can.

EDIT: The below method no longer works. However, you can still contact the Adobe Support Staff, usually via Live Chat, and they can process a payment for you for a full one-time purchase for CS6.

EDIT 2: A new deal from Adobe is their Creative Cloud subscription for Photography. This costs just $9.99 a month and you get the latest version of Adobe Photoshop CS6 + Adobe Lightroom. It's much better than their single app plan. You can buy the plan here.

EDIT 3: As of January 2017 you can no longer buy Photoshop CS6 from Adobe.

The other option, is to buy a copy directly from Adobe. You can still get copies from their website, it's just hidden and not advertised anymore (they want you to use their Creative Cloud option instead). Note, that the Creative Cloud Photoshop CS6 is updated with new features and contains bug fixes and such. It's also supported for newer operating systems, whereas older versions aren't. This might be a problem for some of you who are using newer OSs like Windows 10, so make sure you know 100% for sure the software works on the new OS.

To buy from Adobe, you need to follow this link: http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/catalog/cs6._sl_id-contentfilter_sl_catalog_sl_software_sl_creativesuite6.html

Here it costs £644.40 to purchase. It is the original full version of CS6 but it doesn't contain any of the new updates to the software made when Adobe changed to the subscription service. I'm using this version and I don't really feel like I'm missing out on anything.

So for anyone looking for a legitimate version of Photoshop CS6, I hope this helps :)

See also: Top Alternatives to Photoshop and Creative Cloud Subscription




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14/06/2017

Darien

Sadly this link no longer directs you to the correct area. :( RIP

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14/06/2017

patchesoft

You can still get it. You just need to initiate a chat with the Support Staff and they can process your payment for a full one-time purchase.

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14/06/2017

Mike

As of January 9, 2017 Creative Suite is no longer available for purchase

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14/06/2017

patchesoft

That is true! But you can still find copies on Amazon at least.

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14/06/2017

Thileepan

Hi
we have Brand new Adobe CS5.5 version indesign, incopy for windows and mac

thanks

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20/08/2017

Howard Lucas

Adobe don't recognise ebay as a valid reseller therefore they won't recognise transfer of licence if buying second hand software.

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21/08/2017

Patchesoft

@Howard Lucas Some of the licenses aren't second hand though. I've purchased one before and it registered just fine. I even contacted support to make sure it was valid and good to use, and they said yes it was.

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20/02/2018

Pete Conquest

I just purchased the Adobe Creative Suite 6 Master Collection (CS6) from a guy on Ebay for $1100. SCAMMED?...

Well, I was super sceptical at first and went back and forth with him via Ebay secure messaging asking him lots of questions, trying to do my best to determine if he and his offer was at all legit. He claimed that after my payment was confirmed that he would transfer the license to me so that I'd have the serial number shown in my own Adobe account.

"For security" he said, if I was local he offered to meet me in person at the police station lobby to do the exchange of the serial number there. But after my doing more research into his Ebay membership (perfect 100% satisfaction for 10 years), I figured I was pretty safe, so I just did the purchase through Ebay online (retaining their money back guarantee), and all seemed good.

The seller made certain I could successfully install all the apps on my computer (downloaded directly from Adobe's site), and was able to open them all with the serial number he provided. Then I ran into an issue where the software would not install, and the Adobe installer asked for a previous version product code in order to complete the install. Big problem? Well, no... I then recalled that in the original Ebay posting the seller had mentioned that this might happen, and that he would supply the additional previous version serial number if need. I messaged him again, and within an hour he replied with the additional code.

I typed the second code in, and all was great... every app in the collection worked! Even so, I was not out of the woods just yet... as the real test was yet to come. According to what I read, a license transfer could take upto a few weeks to complete. But following Adobe's instructions, I downloaded the form from the Adobe website, filled it out, and forwarded it to the seller via an Ebay message attachment. He told me he would upload it to Adobe along with his form "

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22/02/2018

Kaarel Lume

would like to buy adobe photoshop cs6 hard copy, disk. Anyone out there has one for sale let us know.
Kaarel

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03/11/2018

Landon Shipman

Is your creative suite still working for you ? Mind sharing the eBay sellers information with me in a DM?

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05/11/2018

samuga

i will be very greative when you will sell it for me that seria number for adobe premiere CS6 pro

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05/11/2018

samuel

wil you give me the valid serial number for adobe premiere CS6 pro

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09/11/2018

Patchesoft

@Landon Shipman Funny thing happened actually. The one I brough from eBay just got revoked after about 3 years of use. I contacted Adobe Support and they said the key was no longer valid for some X reason. Luckily, I had a transcript from 3 years ago where I contacted Adobe Support myself and asked them very specifically if this key was valid and if I could use it and have no problems. The person back then said it was legit and I shouldn't have any problems.

When I pasted this to the Adobe Support Staff, it got referred to the higher up admins and they gave me a brand new key for free. Lucky me because they weren't going to give me another key if it wasn't for that backed up chat message.

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21/03/2019

Malanore

@Kaarel Lume well apparently Adobe is playing the same old dirty game.. I know in person people who are simply using pirated versions of the Adobe Collection (CS6) downloaded from some random torrent website.
Their point is: I used to pay ONCE and get everything, so now that you -Adobe- are playing the greedy corporate, I will be playing the Robin Hood.
It's so frustrating how Adobe is doing things. This is not the first time they are doing this kind of poopy move. They took over small companies such as mixamo and removed the feature where you can export your models to use them with source film maker.
I have been searching for a physical copy of CS6 for a while now and can't find a reliable way to get it.. I'll give it few more weeks/months, and will eventually join the dark side if I don't get one!

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13/06/2019

Sonya

I’m Confused as to why a company would think charging people 20 to 50 a month is ok.
After a year two or three you already paid top dollars for it.

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22/07/2019

Brad

I have Adobe CS 5. IS it compatible with iMac Mojave 10.14.5? What other software do I need?I'm not keen to use the "Cloud". Thanks for any info/response
Brad

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21/10/2019

Denis

I dowloaded Catalina on my iMac. With it I held a funeral for Photoshop CS6 this insane. We are being robbed by technology companies through and through. I paid $600 for PS CS6 probably 6 years ago. I know with age comes change. But this highway robbery of being to subscribe to software that I can but one time has been just fine with me. I am am still very comfortable with the CS6 I use and don't need the sophistication of the newest version. I have read up on the little I know in that Catalina no longer supports 32bit software of which CS6 is. Catalina will only support 64bit applications. If I had known I wouldn't have upgraded to Catalina. I will not do so on my MacPro. I love CS6 the way it is and I have paid for it outright.

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23/10/2019

melissa

@patchesoft how i tried calling and it was a no basically?

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23/10/2019

melissa

@Malanore did you find a reliable source?

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05/12/2019

Marilyn

@Patchesoft Can you help me get a legitimate copy of CS6
Marilyn

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10/02/2020

Voodoo

I have a licensed copy of Photoshop CS6 and I am well aware of the 64 bit Catalina issue. I plan to keep this old iMac running on el Capitan until it dies. I wish I had bought the suite when I picked up PS. As I tried different types of photography I was drawn in to the video side of it. Premiere Pro and After Effects is what I lack. It would be nice to have standalone versions of those but if you have ever done any rendering, you will not want to try it with the older chips and limited ram. It's a trade off. I don't think they are overcharging for the software subscription. There are less capable but comparable open source titles out there for those that don't mind programs that may not work as well. For the capabilities it provides for such a wide range of creative industries I think it's pretty reasonable. As soon as I replace this old machine with a new one. I'm going to rent the software and enjoy the benefits of a newer CPU, the SSD tech, and USB3-4. Tons of RAM. What used to take hours would be brought down to a fraction of that. I can do more.

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26/03/2020

Jeremy Oliver

@Denis
I got around this by installing an older MacOS as a virtual machine and installed CS6 on top of that. I used parallels to do this.

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