But even if your software older than CS5 runs on Mavericks, it may still have other issues because OS X has changed a lot since then.

Below is a summary of various reports Ive read on Adobe.com and around the web.

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Adobe Photoshop CS5, CS4 and CS3 were also tested with Mac OS X Mavericks and there are currently no major issues known.

Photoshop CS3 and CS4 installed and started up successfully, but I didnt work in them intensively.

Note that CS2 applications, including Photoshop, were written for Macs with PowerPC CPUs.

Mavericks only runs Intel CPU-compatible software, so Mavericks will not allow CS2 to run or install.).

I cover some in the rest of this article, and there are also discussions happening on Adobe forums and blogs (a good one is Creative Cloud, Creative Suite 6, and Mavericks (10.9) ).

If you find a repeatable problem, you can send it in using the official Adobe Feature RequestBug Report Form, but its always a good idea to first check the Adobe Community forum for the software in case its already being discussed.

This is not happening to everyone, but there is a long thread on the official Photoshop forum about it: Drop Down Menus in Photoshop CS 6 Goes Blank In Mavericks.

Update: This was caused by a bug in OS X, which Apple fixed in OS X 10.9.3.

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If you are running an earlier version of OS X you can download an Adobe plug-in to work around the problem.

Apple fixed their bug in OS X 10.9.3, so make sure youre up to date.

Lightroom Queen Victoria Bampton has her own tech note that covers a few other minor Mavericks issues: Is Lightroom compatible with OS X Mavericks.

If a button is provided, click it; if not, download the latest Java from Apple and install that.

In the case of Photoshop, Adobe says Photoshop doesnt need Java at all, but OS X puts up the message anyway.

A plug-in that is not compatible with Mavericks may prevent its host Adobe app from starting up.

Mavericks ships with that option on, so if you want to position Adobe application panels and windows on multiple displays you should turn off that option.

The Lightroom secondary display panel seems to work fine either way though.

Whats a reason to turn it on There are at least three: If you want Spaces to switch on only the display youre using (the one with the pointer), if you want to see the menu bar on all displays, and if you want to be able to see more than one application when using OS X full screen mode with multiple displays.

Adobe has a tech note about it: Freeze or Crash when using Open or Save dialog box.

If you run Adobe software released before Gatekeeper, you should know what to do if Gatekeeper prevents Adobe software from starting.

Adobe covers that in this tech note: Error has not been signed by a recognized distributor Launch Adobe applications Mac OS.

The short answer is to bypass the error by right-clicking the application icon, then choose Open from the context menu.

After Apple switched to Intel-based Macs, Apple started phasing out support for running software based on the older PowerPC processors.

Starting with Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, Mac OS X no longer runs PowerPC-based software.

Youll have to check compatibility for each of the Adobe applications you want to run; for example, Photoshop CS3 was the first version of Photoshop that ran on Intel-based Macs.