For those of you quick to upgrade to the latest macOS—you may want to hold off if you’re using an older version of Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator or InDesign. There is a fairly detailed thread about it on Hacker News.

Heads up for developers like me building Mac apps, this release is going to take a little more adoption time than most due to the 64bit-only nature of this release. For example, I know there is a contingent of people who are stuck at Adobe CS6, whose certain critical components are 32 bit. Since Adobe no longer sells permanent licenses, opting to only rent their software instead, it’s impossible to get these updated. And these expensive and still-in-use licenses are going to die the moment people update to Catalina.

For those of us that don’t want to pay for a subscription, what are the alternatives to Photoshop CS6? The ones I know of are: