Adobe CS6 Master Collection for Mac

Mac Photo & Design

Updated Nov 4, 2026

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Adobe CS6 Master Collection for Mac was a real Adobe product: the top retail edition of Creative Suite 6, released in 2012 as a one-time, perpetual-licence purchase. It bundled nearly every creative application Adobe made at the time into one suite, aimed at professionals who needed the complete toolset for print, web, video and interactive work.

Adobe has since discontinued it. CS6 is no longer sold, updated or supported, and its 2012-era installers were built for much older versions of macOS, so they are unreliable on modern Macs. Adobe replaced the Creative Suite line with the Creative Cloud subscription, where the current versions of all these applications now live — and that is the route this page points you to.

Key Features

• Photoshop CS6 Extended, Illustrator CS6 and InDesign CS6 for image, vector and layout work
• Premiere Pro CS6, After Effects CS6 and Audition CS6 for video, effects and audio
• Dreamweaver CS6, Flash Professional CS6 and Fireworks CS6 for web and interactive projects
• Acrobat X Pro, Encore and Prelude for PDFs, disc authoring and footage organisation
• Sold once as a perpetual licence, with no subscription or cloud services attached

How to Download

1. Download from the official site
2. CS6 itself is no longer available from Adobe, so choose a Creative Cloud plan — All Apps includes the modern successors of every Master Collection program.
3. Install the Creative Cloud desktop app on your Mac and add the individual apps you need.

Can I still buy Adobe CS6 Master Collection?
No. Adobe stopped selling Creative Suite 6 years ago and offers it through no official channel. Copies on auction or download sites are second-hand at best and pirated at worst, and their serial numbers often no longer activate.

Will CS6 run on a modern Mac?
Usually not well. CS6 predates current macOS releases and Apple silicon, receives no compatibility fixes, and its installers fail on recent systems. The supported equivalent today is a Creative Cloud subscription.