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CS5 was PowerPC and 32-bit Intel. Modern macOS (Catalina and later) dropped support for 32-bit apps entirely . You cannot run CS5 on Apple Silicon (M1/M2/M3) or macOS Ventura/Sonoma/Sequoia. You would need a virtual machine running OS X Snow Leopard or a vintage 2012 MacBook Pro. For professionals, CS5 was the ultimate Swiss Army knife