PSE 11 not compatible with Sierra

21 Oct 2016 10:10:34

Rick Churchill

Having updated to Sierra I find that important parts of Adobe Photoshop Elements 11 no longer work. Saving files in non-PSD formats and printing are affected. Problems with other versions of PSE are being reported.

Am either going to roll-back to El Capitan (if I can work out how to do this) or revert to using my PC. I hope an update comes soon either from Apple or Adobe.

Re: PSE 11 not compatible with Sierra

21 Oct 2016 15:42:19

Roy Rainford

Thanks for that Rick. Before I upgrade to Sierra is anyone finding the same problem as Rick but with PS Elements 14.1?

Re: PSE 11 not compatible with Sierra

21 Oct 2016 19:59:04

Douglas Cheney

Photoshop Elements 14 works very well with Sierra Roy

Re: PSE 11 not compatible with Sierra

22 Oct 2016 08:08:33

Trevor Hewson

Glad to hear it's working okay for you Doug but others have reported problems, e.g. with opening jpeg files.

I haven't moved to Sierra yet and have PSE 6 and PSE 12. Hopefully one of them will work. Although because of how Preview and Photos have developed, I find I don't use PSE very much nowadays.

Re: PSE 11 not compatible with Sierra

22 Oct 2016 12:00:52

Douglas Cheney

I have PSE version 14.1 and have no trouble opening JPEG files

Re: PSE 11 not compatible with Sierra

22 Oct 2016 15:24:10

Tony Still

Just piggy-backing on Rick's thread here, I moved on from PSE some while ago and recently deleted PSE 8 to reclaim some HD space. I see that I still have two copies of PSE that would be usable on older machines: if anyone wants them, they're welcome. They're both on a CD-ROM in a large and otherwise empty box:

* PSE 6 (Power PC, for OS X from 10.4.8
* PSE 8 (Universal, for OS X 10.4.11 onwards to at leat 10.6) - GONE to Lionel

First post on this thread reserves either :-)

Re: PSE 11 not compatible with Sierra

25 Oct 2016 16:27:19

Lionel Ogden

I would be interested in updating my PSE 6 to 8 I would imagine it would work on 10.7.

Re: PSE 11 not compatible with Sierra

25 Oct 2016 17:08:30

Rick Churchill

Just installed the latest Sierra update (10.12.1). Now PSE11 will save files in other formats but printing a document still has issues. Only the centre of the image will print.

Also one of my Excel VBA macros fails. Whether this is due to Sierra or a Microsoft update to their Office suite I cannot tell but suspect Sierra as Microsoft haven't ported their macro editor from version 11 to version 16 yet and so I do not think they will have tampered with the macro language part either.

Re: PSE 11 not compatible with Sierra

27 Oct 2016 13:43:29

Euan Williams

... or try the 2015 Apple Award winning Affinity Photo (£39.99 and 10 Day trial) from the App Store. Not a cut down Photoshop CC, but serious competition to that august (and very expensive) application - which is compatible with Sierra and much faster, way more flexible and capable than P-Elements.

Have a look at some of the Affinity videos on Vimeo. Time for that proverbial coffee?

Re: PSE 11 not compatible with Sierra

27 Oct 2016 18:53:12

Roy Rainford

Or update to PSE14.1

Re: PSE 11 not compatible with Sierra

28 Oct 2016 20:15:19

Rick Churchill

Spend more money! I've just spent money on a Photoshop video learning package.

Anyway my Excel problems are cured. I think it was an Excel update not a Sierra one. The upgrade has removed some Mac macro anomalies and is now closer to the PC version. By taking out the code that says "If you are running on a Mac do this otherwise do that" it runs OK. Hurray I can get on with my life!