Category: Adobe

Items to do with Create Cloud and Adobe Products

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We have hit 500 subscribers on Youtube

Hey everyone! We just hit 500 subscribers on YouTube! When I started this channel, I just wanted to help other Mac users get the most out of their devices — and seeing this community grow means the world to me.

I suppose it’s fitting that this article is my 200th article published for this website.

We’re just getting started — more Mac tips, tricks, and tutorials are on the way. If you haven’t already, hit subscribe, and let’s reach 1,000 next!

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Affinity Bundle instead of using Creative cloud

Ever since Adobe moved to a subscription based system there has been a scramble to keep the old versions of the Adobe suite on your Mac. With a machine still running the old OS like Mojave (macOS 10.14) you can still use the old version of the Adobe products without paying the subscription based system. When you go to Catalina 10.15 which was the first OS that was a true 64 Bit version of macOS the old Adobe Product wont work along with a few other products like Office 2011 and some Steam games for Mac like Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare to name just a few. In short anything 32 Bit stops working unless you have a 3rd party app to allow it to run on 64 Bit. Outside of keeping an old Mac to run your very old version of Photoshop you are forced to look either to the subscription based Adobe Cloud version or look for a new product to use.

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Adobe Licensing Toolkit

I deal with a lot of Adobe offline clients and there always seems to be a challenge to reactivate a licence that has expired.

In this article I am going to show how to deploy an Adobe offline build using the Adobe licensing Toolkit and the adobe console to build the package to then download and deploy. Adobe call it Isolated activation packages.

This walk through will be for both Windows (Yuck) and Mac bases OS.

Tools your going to need

  • Adobe Offline Licence from a reseller or direct from Adobe
  • Adobe login details to the Admin Console
  • Adobe Licensing Toolkit (Downloaded from the Adobe Console portal)
  • Fast internet
  • Remote Software (I am using Apple Remote software tool and Splashtop for Windows)
  • Admin access to the machine that Adobe Cloud is going to be deployed to
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