Zend certified PHP/Magento developer

Run multiple instances of Photoshop

I have both Photoshop CC and Photoshop CS6 installed on my machine.

Sometimes I have to scan things with CS6 because it’s 32bit and rely on some things (twain32 but also other plugins) and have Photoshop CC to do other works.

Because seemingly Photoshop checks for something like Photoshop.exe already running the other one isn’t loaded unless I close the previous first. This is stupid, annoying and irritating.

Plus I like to script a lot of jsx files to automate lot of things inside photoshop, photoshop itself processes things very slow (lot of things are still not multithreaded in 2021 or maybe not multithreadeable…) so I have to wait a lot before each script could get completed.

Would be nice run so various instances of Photoshop to feed properly my Threadripper machine and carry out the tasks fastly…

So… there’s any know way, hack, registry flag, whatever thing to make able photoshop run in multiple instances without creating problems?

Bonus: Have the same thing work for Illustrator, Indesign and few other main programs of the CC suite would be gold.

Thanks for your interest 🙂