Photoshop Elements 6 now shipping

I am new to Mac and am no computer expert. Bought the iMac Dec 2007, bought and downloaded the Photoshop Elements 6 for Mac. Haven't been able to successfully install. Adobe support has had me try to install as a new user and as the root user. Neither worked. Hope you guys have better luck than me.

Anyone know if the upgrade for mac is downloadable? Adobe's website seems to indicate the upgrade is only for the boxed/shipped version.

quote:

"Product Information
This upgrade version is currently available only for Macintosh, in English, and as a shipped box product."

Has anyone purchased the upgrade for mac and downloaded it?

Or is only available in the "dead tree" (boxed) version?

Thanks,

Rich

Too little Too Late!!

Adobe you dropped the ball. You could have released Adobe Elements much sooner but you didn't. Instead, you focused on the expensive PhotoShop for the Pro Market. Maybe you were hopping consumers would give up, throw up their hands and would end up buying it.

As a result, competitors have popped up like Pixelmator and Acorn. Pity. You once owned this consumer market.

Rob

Your link seems to poin to the Windows version. Here's the Mac version.

http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshopelmac/

Too bad there's no free trial for the Mac, though.

I'm deciding whether to upgrade Photoshop Elements 4.0 to 6.0 or just buy Pixelmator. Photoshop does seem to have more features (like that swipe the kid looking the wrong way and replace him with one facing frontward, on their web site) but previous versions have seemed pretty un-mac-like.

Pixelmator looks nice and probably has the feature set I'd need, and is cheaper. But for $20 more is Photoshop El worth it?

The Wacom Bamboo tablet comes bundled with Elements. I plan on waiting until they update the bundle. Costs almost the same as Elements and you get a tablet.

What's your source on this shipping news? I just got off the phone with Adobe and they said it's not shipping yet. Customer service rep guessed it would ship later this week or early April but he said he wasn't sure.

Stephen P . . . you are in luck. There is a new Elements 6 for The Mac - Missing Manual book.

Check it out on Amazon. Here is the ISBN-10: 0596519362.

"Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 runs on Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger and Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard (so PowerPC-users aren't left out in the cold)."

Umm ... PowerPC Macs can run Leopard, too.

Hmm... Elements 3 works fine on Leopard on my MBP 2.2... But I have 6 on order cuz 3 is really slow in Rosetta.