You have to download the for your region, or the license won’t work. Which I thought was ok, as Adobe would never do something as stupid as to region-lock their licenses, right? Riiight?. Well, I bought a German version of Photoshop. But hey, my conscience is clean, I did buy it after all. It’s annoying, but there was no other choice but to remove the copy protection. Even though Photoshop CS6 officially supported XP, it can no longer be activated on such old operating systems, and nobody cares as it’s all deprecated anyway. It’s sad, but in the end, I had to crack Photoshop, which is the one thing I didn’t want to do. So? I was sitting there with a valid license, but unable to activate the software with it. My assumption is that the Adobe application manager uses IEs’ browsing engine to connect to those servers via HTTPS, which fails on anything that isn’t Vista+ with a more modern version of Internet Explorer. I guess Adobe upgraded SSL on some of their servers. Why is this? During testing I found that Microsofts’ ancient Internet Explorer 8 – the latest on XP – can’t talk to certain activation servers via encrypted connections any longer. In my version of CS6, Adobes’ application manager just wouldn’t talk to the activation servers anymore and offline activation is broken as well, as the tool won’t generate any request codes for you (the option just isn’t there anymore).
The first thing that really got on my nerves was Adobes’ licensing system.
Well, Adobe Photoshop CS6 was the last standalone version without relying on the “Creative Cloud” and the last that would work on Windows XP / XP 圆4, even in its 64-bit version on the latter. Generally, Photopaint tends to become unstable as you keep working with very large files, and things like masks or object copies start failing silently even well before its 32-bit address space is exhausted. While I’ve been a Corel Photopaint user for about 20 years now (!), I’ve recently bought myself a license for Adobe Photoshop CS6 Extended, simply because I’ve hit some memory and stability limitations with Corel’s solution when working with very large files (A0 300dpi) and lots of objects (=”layers”), sometimes hundreds of them.
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