Adobe Photoshop 4.0
Codenamed "Big Electric Cat" and released in November of 1996, the Photoshop version 4 series of Adobe's premier digital editing program, marked the final transition from 68k to PPC only Macintosh. This was to be the final version of Photoshop to also install & run on 68k Macintosh.
Notes about the downloads available from above:
Top DL: Installer disk images for Adobe Photoshop 4.0. Includes serial number (28.98 MB).
2nd DL: Install version from the floppy disk install set containing the contents of all 21 installation floppies in a Disk Copy 6.3 image file, in a ".hqx" wrapper (32.28 MB).
3rd DL: The full install CD image of Adobe Photoshop 4.0.1 uploaded by macjames, its the final release of the version 4 series of Photoshop (an additional updater is not required). Its a Toast image compressed as Stuffit ".sit", expands OK with Stuffit Expander 5.5 or newer (372.21 MB).
MD5 checksum & filename: 7db104003d3416a943a7ad6d134fa2a8 *adobe_photoshopr.toast_.sit
4th DL: This is the version 4.0 Photoshop Plug-ins SDK that is included in the CD above. I've included it here for those who might want the plug-ins SDK only, without the need to DL the larger Toast image. Its a Disk Copy 6.3 image and compressed in Stuffit 5.5 ".sit" format (6.82 MB).
MD5 checksum & filename: 62361bdd69f2b4b333b10261308705d3 *ps4-plugin-sdk-img.sit
5th DL: The 4.0.1 Updater for those who only require updating from 4.0 to 4.0.1 (the final release update for the version 4 series of Photoshop).
6th DL: Multilanguage (Mac-only) ISO EN-FR-DE most likely the same as on Max1zzz`s server below:
Adobe Photoshop4® multi-language.toast.sit (428 MB)
(Mac-only CD image with English, French, and German installers)
7th DL: Photoshop 4 Tutorial CD-ROM for PC and Mac
Hybrid CD-ROM for PC and Mac with English, French and German tutorials, which should work with WIN31, 95 and NT as well as for the Classic Mac OS. For those using OS X, the videos should run with QT10.
Also available on Max1zzz`s server below:
Adobe Photoshop4 Tutorial.iso.sit (316 MB)
Hybrid PC/Mac CD-ROM with English, French and German tutorials.
See also: Adobe Photoshop 5.0.2 upgrade.
Serial: PSW400R7114228-769
See screenshot 2 for version 4.0.1 CD contents.
CompatibilityArchitecture: 68k PPC
Has optional 68k and PPC installers or as FAT (both 68k and PPC).
Minimum System Requirements:
- Macintosh with 68030 or greater CPU
- 8-bit (or greater) color display
- System 7.1 or later (7.1.2 for PPC)
- 16 MB RAM (32 MB recommended)
- 25 MB hard-disk space
- CD-ROM drive (to install from CD)
- QuickTime 2.1 or later (for image preview, etc)
Comments
GREAT! A WORKING download of Photoshop with the WORKING key! (Used the first DL). Now Ive just got to update it all the way to 7.0...
Thanks, mrdav.
4.0.1 updater now uploaded
Attempting to download the 4.0.1 update from ftp://ftp.fh-heilbronn.de/pub/system/postscript/adobe/photoshop/mac/4.x/... gives an error.
It's labeled as "Download 4.0.1 Update" in the description.
Yes when you can find time please, mrdav. Full install sets of international & hybrid iso's should always be accommodated.
There used to be external links to a CD image with British, French and German installer and a hybrid iso image with British, French and German tutorial. Do you want them back? I have them.
I have struck this bug before, too. I think one work around for this that I tried with good results was by using a Disk Copy 6.x read/write disk image < 2GB, as the scratch disk volume. This I would also have auto-mount at start-up.
It's not an issue if using this program on Basilisk II or SheepShaver tho' because of their own drive container limits. Most software volumes for these emulators tend to be less than 2 GB.
BUG NOTE!
Photoshop four allows you two scratch disks. The PowerMac version allows volumes (not files, volumes) larger than 2048MB. The Macintosh version will crash if a scratch file goes over 2048MB, which it can if the volume has enough free space. Using two scratch disks does not protect against this. “Been there, done that!”
(I do not know why the smile face is there. Levity, I suppose!)
>guessing you might be after this.
Exactly so! The SDK is the only piece I want. Thanks for your work and excellent memory!
Gary
@Gary: The archived CD image file is 100% OK. Something is not going right at your end.
I downloaded it to test. It expands OK for me under Windows using unar.exe & also on beige G3, Mac OS 9.1, using Stuffit Expander 5.5
The expanded CD image "Adobe Photoshop®.toast" mounts fine in SheepShaver on Windows as a GUI added disk image and on the beige G3 using both Toast 5.2 and Virtual CD/DVD Utility (available here at the garden).
I MD5 checksummed the archive & the extracted image on both Windows & beige Mac, they matched:
7db104003d3416a943a7ad6d134fa2a8 *adobe_photoshopr.toast_.sit
c65e3a8960453a22421e93a8bcae127b *Adobe Photoshop®.toast
If you can check what you have, against those MD5 sums, it might help in determining their validity at your end.
[Edit] I've also added the SDK (4th DL above) taken from the toast image, guessing you might be after this.
I've downloaded the toast.sit image twice now. Both times the download appears to work. Both times the SIT file expands. But when I try to mount the toast image, Toast reports that the image is in an unknown format.
I'm using Toast v5.2.3. Is my version wrong or is the archive file corrupted?
Gary
I added a second download. The .hqx is a single read-only disk image containing the contents of all 21 installation floppies. I've tried it on my 68k IIci and the installer worked fine on the components I selected (not enough disk space to do a full install), so it SHOULD work.
Could someone please fix the Full CD iso image link? It links to a completely different site.
Thanks.
I've been looking for this.
Here are the photoshop 4.01 updates
ftp://ftp.fh-heilbronn.de/pub/system/postscript/adobe/photoshop/mac/4.x/...
Umm, it seems the "Download full 4.0 CD (.iso, 435mb)" and "Download 4.0.1 Update" links are bad. skipping the ad redirects to a site about "The Internet vs Hollywood"
For sake of completeness, I uploaded the tutorial disk.
The disk should work with WIN31, 95 and NT as well as for the Classic MacOS.
For those using OSX, the videos should run with QT10.
Added the full application CD. There's also a tutorial disc but I don't have that.
This was my favorite one, CS Came in 2003, I think CS1 was Adobe Photoshop 8.0 or something like that. CS5 must be like Adobe Photoshop 13/14
Photoshop 4 is great. It was the biggest jump in functionality ever because it added layers. You can get by even today using PS4. Of course 5 added other things, e.g. realtime rotation and distortion, magnetic lasso, etc., but 4 was the quantum leap, and there's no reason on earth to use any version later than 5.5, even today. CS5..? make me puke.
Indeed I am. Photoshop 4 was the last major version to support 68k (given that it was released in 1996), and you can find proof of that by going to the "custom install" portion of the installer, where both 68k and PPC installs are listed.
68k? Are you sure?