Adobe Photoshop requirements

Professional image editing and compositing. Scratch-disk and large-document workloads benefit from much more free storage.

windows requirements

Operating system: Supported Windows 10/11 release
Processor: Multicore Intel, AMD, or Windows-on-ARM processor; AVX2/SSE 4.2 on x86
Graphics: DirectX 12 feature level 12_0 GPU with at least 1.5 GB VRAM
Memory: 8 GB
Available storage: 10 GB

Adobe recommends 16 GB RAM or more and substantially more free disk space for scratch disks.
Current supported Windows builds are narrower than the broad Windows 10/11 family; verify the exact build.

Publisher specifications

macos requirements

Operating system: macOS 14, 15, or 26 for current Photoshop 27.x
Processor: Multicore Intel or Apple Silicon processor
Graphics: Metal-capable GPU with at least 1.5 GB graphics memory
Memory: 8 GB
Available storage: 10 GB

Adobe recommends Apple Silicon and 16 GB RAM or more.
Photoshop may require much more working disk space for large documents and scratch files.

Publisher specifications

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